http://www.anysubject.com Editing, book cover design, book publishing services, book publisher, Epub and Kindle books for sale, publish a book Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:47:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.anysubject.com/bright-lights-and-blurry-faces http://www.anysubject.com/bright-lights-and-blurry-faces#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:41:07 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=3438 Brighton Pier is an area of unrivalled artificial beauty by night. From down here the Ferris Wheel looks as though it could take you to the moon; the waltzer, lurid with bright lights and blurry faces, inflicts a pleasant vertigo. The little huts that sell doughnuts and slushies, the street entertainers, nodding gratefully every now [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/bright-lights-and-blurry-faces/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/life-on-mars http://www.anysubject.com/life-on-mars#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:45:34 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=3410 Everyone has their vices. It’s kind of an unwritten human right. So long as you don’t let them consume you, you’re fine. Not that you’re happy, exactly, but who is? You know how to let reality become merely a dark star on the horizon, even just for an hour or two. You’re quite the expert, [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/life-on-mars/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/fear-of-flying http://www.anysubject.com/fear-of-flying#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:37:22 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=3400 I’m not a nervous flier. No valium or Xanax for me, thank you. I note that I am managing my claustrophobia very well. I am in a window seat and legroom is scarce, which isn’t great when you’re over 5’8″ and your legs make up most of your height. Thanks, tall gene. I don’t complain, [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/fear-of-flying/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/4-easy-ways-to-begin-promoting-your-writing http://www.anysubject.com/4-easy-ways-to-begin-promoting-your-writing#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:25:39 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=3312 To make the understatement of the millennium, there are a lot of writers in the world and promoting yourself on the internet is not easy. When you’re just starting out, it can seem overwhelming. It is; making a dent on the internet, let alone promoting your work, is not a walk in the park smelling [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/4-easy-ways-to-begin-promoting-your-writing/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/you-have-to-laugh http://www.anysubject.com/you-have-to-laugh#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:24:49 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=3271 Well, you do, don’t you? Thing is, for some reason, many authors seem to lose sight of this quirk of human nature when they’re writing dialogue. Guessing at their motivation, it appears they’ve created a rule which decrees that a serious scene must contain earnest interchanges between people who are treating the whole matter with [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/you-have-to-laugh/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/hitting-the-target http://www.anysubject.com/hitting-the-target#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:55:35 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=2402 On camera again today is Aiming True author, Conrad Phillips, describing his life and the events which took him from being a serviceman in World War II to playing the lead role in a prime-time television series. He tells of his many ups and downs, his disastrous first marriage, the William Tell filming injury that [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/hitting-the-target/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/tone-and-flavour http://www.anysubject.com/tone-and-flavour#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 22:19:04 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=2384 Tone and flavour are two words which don’t seem to belong to the world of writing. The first could have been taken equally from the worlds of music or painting, and the second is definitely culinary. They are, however, very important concepts in writing; in fact they’re sometimes so important that like the ‘elephant in the room’ they’re too big [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/tone-and-flavour/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/is-an-ivory-tower-a-des-res http://www.anysubject.com/is-an-ivory-tower-a-des-res#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 17:28:37 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=2360 It’s an evocative image, a tower made out of milky white ivory, too high and too slippery to assail and with a distant and distorted view of the world below it. A great many writers have inhabited one or perhaps, more to the point, been accused of inhabiting one. But what effect does residence in [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/is-an-ivory-tower-a-des-res/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/the-joy-of-being-evil http://www.anysubject.com/the-joy-of-being-evil#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 15:56:19 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=2307 I actually got the idea for this post from Kristin Scott Thomas’ interview on BBC News where she revels in the unusual opportunity to turn on her ‘bitch switch’ and play a really bad character. It set me thinking about why we like to pretend to be evil and why we aren’t evil for real (that is, if [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/the-joy-of-being-evil/feed 0 http://www.anysubject.com/how-long-until-the-physical-book-is-dead http://www.anysubject.com/how-long-until-the-physical-book-is-dead#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 17:28:43 +0000 admin http://www.anysubject.com/?p=2276 Although the invention of printing is largely accredited to Gutenberg with his introduction of the metal plate technique in 1452, it really stemmed from the Chinese some 6 centuries before. However, even though Gutenberg (and then Caxton) started the ‘mass-production’ of books, it wasn’t until the rapid rise of literacy during the Victorian era (in [...]]]> http://www.anysubject.com/how-long-until-the-physical-book-is-dead/feed 0