So, last week I was amongst the many thousands who received a little letter from Amazon / Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). It’s war: Amazon vs Publishers vs authors.
Only Connect: The Naming of Things: Part Two
Art and Artists The first post of this two-parter looked at the naming of things in music, fiction and poetry. This one tackles the painted arts, and the philosophy of naming. Representational art is very popular. It appeals to our sense of the familiar and even when it tackles the big life issues, it offers one redeeming quality: a sense …
Only Connect: The Naming of Things: Part One
I’ve been painting most nights: acrylics, layer upon layer, broadly expressionist, abstract, intimate. But one thing troubles me: what do I call the paintings? You’d think it would be simple, but the ‘naming of things’ is not to be undertaken lightly. With its immediacy a painting seems to be different to a book, or a piece of music, and not …
Writer’s Journal: Steampunk Arm
Steampunk is steadily moving out of its cultish origins. It’s shifted from the Zeppelins and other 20th century technology being transplanted into Victorian times, to a wider range of more interesting modes.