Some of the most interesting blog and website posts that I came across this week: Cory Doctorow is serializing a short story Martian Chronicles, that he is working on – quite interesting to do this with a WIP. Scott Marlowe explains how to self-publish your own e-book – part 1 of a series of posts. [...]

I liked the tips in this article by Cory Doctorow, Writing in the Age of Distraction. It’s all about focusing! I have forced myself now to only look at blogs, rss, and most email at certain parts of the day. Otherwise there just seems to be no continuity. 

Busy old day. Ended up even doing some writing on the train, which worked out quite well. I have begun the synopsis for A Habit for Killing. Instead of just doing a one page synopsis, it looks like I am pretty much headed for a quite full one. I’ll still keep on and do the [...]

Deep Genre have a good link to the freebies currently available from Tor Books, which includes the whole of Kate Elliot’s Spirit Gate (Crossroads) book. This is becoming very common now amongst publishers, and may seem like a bit of a rash uncommercial move. However, as Cory Doctorow comments, people don’t want to read a [...]