Author: Carrie

  • Odds and sods

    Blimey. Is it 2012 already? A few odds and sods: * I didn’t get as much reading done over the holiday period as I’d planned, but I still managed to devour Ray Banks’ Dead Money, RJ Ellory’s Bad Signs and Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman. They’re ace, gory and hilarious respectively. * One…

  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas, everybody. I hope that Santa’s kind, that your relatives aren’t too annoying and that you have a very happy 2012.

  • 1,500 ebook sales

    I sold my 1,500th ebook today – it wasn’t the 1,500th copy of Coffin Dodgers (that’ll happen later tonight), but I’m delighted all the same.

  • I made another ebook – non-fiction, this time

    I know what you’re thinking. “Man, if only Gary did more blog posts in which he tried to flog his bloody ebooks!” Well, have I got a happy surprise for you! Bring Me The Head of Mark Zuckerberg is a new ebook by yours truly, and it’s available right now from – yes! – Amazon…

  • A brief review of the stupidly expensive SuperDarts headphones from Atomic Floyd

    Part 1: Thoughts on listening to music with Atomic Floyd’s SuperDarts  Shit, I’ve just wasted the best part of £200 in Amazon vouchers. They sound okay, but you don’t spend that much money for something to be okay. Part 2: Thoughts on listening to music with Atomic Floyd’s SuperDarts after turning the volume right up…

  • Tabloid-fuelled Twitter hate

    The parents of missing child Madeleine McCann appeared at the Levenson inquiry into newspapers’ bad behaviour yesterday, and Twitter proved beyond doubt that it’s the original story, not the retraction, that many people remember. As the McCanns described some extraordinarily evil behaviour by newspapers and their hired help, all kinds of apparently respectable people posted…

  • 1,000 copies of Coffin Dodgers

    Update: Coffin Dodgers hit the 10,000 mark in February 2012. I’ve broken down the numbers here. A wee milestone: Coffin Dodgers just sold its 1,000th copy, and to gladden my heart further it’s just outside the humour top ten (it’s number 12) and number 440 in the UK Kindle Store. The charts are updated hourly,…

  • “EU says water is not healthy”, says made-up man

    The Express: EU SAYS WATER IS NOT HEALTHY In a scarcely believable ­ruling, a panel of experts threw out a claim that regular water consumption is the best way to rehydrate the body. The bizarre diktat from Brussels has far-reaching implications for member states, including Britain, as no water sold in the EU can now…

  • Modern Warfare 3: “all the way up the bombast-o-meter”

    John Walker is always worth reading, and his review of Modern Warfare 3’s singleplayer campaign is just superb. Videogames often allow us to live out fantasies, to be who we could never be with our saggy, regular-person frames and lives. A soldier fighting in a near-future war, with access to the finest in military hardware?…

  • I think this is a good idea: ebooks you can touch

    New ebook publisher Blasted Heath (vested interest alert: they’re friends of mine and occasional employers) gave me one of these the other night. It’s the Blasted Boxset, 5 ebooks on a USB drive in a presentation tin. I think it’s a really good idea, and hopefully there will be more like it: while ebooks are…