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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… [more]
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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… [more]
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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,… [more]
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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?… [more]
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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… [more]
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I’m really taken by children’s book apps, and you can get an award-winning one for free: the Jack and the Beanstalk iPad/iPhone app is available here. I haven’t tried this one yet, but it looks like fun. [more]
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The deluxe version of the REM best-of (“Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011) on iTunes is superb value for money: 40 songs and a further twelve videos for £11.99. If you’re interested, the videos are for Radio Free Europe, Talk About The Passion, Fall On Me, The One I Love, Orange Crush, Losing My… [more]
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Update: Coffin Dodgers became a proper bestseller in February 2012, topping Amazon UK’s humour chart and breaking into the overall top 40 too. I’m quite delighted to see that Coffin Dodgers is currently number 20 in Amazon UK’s Books > Fiction > Humour chart, as well as number 33 in Kindle Store > Books >… [more]
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Oh yes. On the face of it, Internet Explorer doesn’t have much in common with Sugababes: IE isn’t beautiful, doesn’t sing and isn’t likely to dress in a primary-coloured PVC dominatrix outfit to perform at G-A-Y. However, they’re not as different as you might think. [more]
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Robyn Wilder’s description of being an ex-smoker is perfect. I am a retired cigarette enthusiast, which brings with it the following woes: Getting up from my desk at the end of the day and all my joints cracking at once because cigarette breaks are the only breaks I know Dreaming that I had a cigarette, and… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
