Author: Carrie

  • A letter from Butlin’s made me laugh

    This was on the envelope:

  • Get the British Library on your iPad

    This looks like fun: a free iPad app that lets you browse the British Library’s collection of 19th Century books. From the press release: The app takes advantage of the form and function of iPad, bringing a renewed sense of wonder to the discovery and enjoyment of antiquarian and historical books. Currently the app features over a thousand 19th Century books, but it…

  • Some interesting ebooks and blogs

    I’ve been speaking to some interesting people in ebook-land over the last few weeks, and it’s only fair to give them a mention here. So in no particular order, here goes: Mark Edwards and Louise Voss are doing extraordinary things – as I write this, Catch Your Death and Killing Cupid are at numbers 1…

  • This is a plug

    I made a thing!   So here it is: my debut novel, shiny and new on the Kindle store (or at least, the UK one. The US one needs another couple of days). I’ve set up a page to talk about it without filling the entire front page of this site, but put it this…

  • A more sober analysis of the WHO/phones/cancer story

    The tabloids are leading with headlines of the MOBILE PHONES WILL EAT YOUR FACE variety, but the WHO/phone/cancer story is something of a non-story. Here’s what Cancer Research has to say. It is understandable that people are concerned about mobile phones, especially because they are so widely used. But so far, the published studies do…

  • Pricing ebooks: dollars and sense

    As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m about to put my novel online in various ebook formats, and part of the process is working out how much to charge. It’s a controversial topic, so it was nice to see this post by John Rickards (which came to me via the superb Loud blog). As Rickards points out,…

  • Apple’s cloud music service sounds good

    This could be interesting. Businessweek: Armed with licenses from the music labels and publishers, Apple will be able to scan customers’ digital music libraries in iTunes and quickly mirror their collections on its own servers, say three people briefed on the talks. If the sound quality of a particular song on a user’s hard drive…

  • “Nothing else is worse than going to the cinema”

    Luv & Hat is a funny blog by Stuart Heritage, who writes for The Guardian, and Robyn Wilder, who is a woman. Each post takes a single subject and one of the duo praises it while the other damns it. Today’s post on cinemas made me laugh. Nothing else is worse than going to the cinema.…

  • Facebook is coming for your children

    I do a wee news roundup for Techradar each week, and this week social networks were the main story. Facebook, it seems, is coming for your children. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like the way the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act prevents Facebook from giving accounts to under-13s. But it’s not because he wants…

  • LA Noire: not Grand Theft Ellroy after all

    You know that LA Noire game? I’ve got it. It’s rubbish. Well, maybe not rubbish. Tedious and annoying might be a better way to put it. The facial capture technology is extraordinary, but that’s about it. I was hoping for Grand Theft Ellroy, XBLA Confidential, but I just got bored. A more intelligent critique from…