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This really made me laugh: take one shoebox and one iPad and you’ve got everything you need to make a concert venue. Skip the pics and go straight to the video. [more]
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I’ve blogged about fly on the wall documentary series The Scheme a few times here, but the news that it’s now going to be broadcast in the rest of the UK made me want to add another bit. Having seen the whole series now – including a final episode that made it very clear that… [more]
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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… [more]
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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… [more]
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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… [more]
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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,… [more]
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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… [more]
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I spotted this on MetaFilter: a superb and desperately sad article about the rise and fall of Bill Haley. After ten minutes or so Billnitzer would bring him his food. But usually he was thinking about something, so he ignored it. After a while, though, he’d start to shift in his seat and look around.… [more]
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Me, on Techradar, about Google’s brand new Chromebooks: Ah, says Samsung. “With nothing stored directly on the Series 5, malicious spyware, trojans and viruses are a thing of the past.” They’re a thing of the past on my Windows 7 PC too, because I’m not an idiot who opens unsolicited files that claim to be… [more]
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The book isn’t ready yet but I thought Ronnie Brown’s cover design was too good to keep under wraps. More soon. [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.
