(8000,1,'2011-04-12 08:19:04','2011-04-12 07:19:04','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\n\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\n\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\n\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\n\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? No one really knows. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that thety\'','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision','','','2011-04-12 08:19:04','2011-04-12 07:19:04','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8001,1,'2011-04-12 08:19:59','2011-04-12 07:19:59','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? No one really knows. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? 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Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? No one really knows. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels?','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision-3','','','2011-04-12 08:20:26','2011-04-12 07:20:26','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8004,1,'2011-04-12 08:22:58','2011-04-12 07:22:58','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? No one really knows. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels? This is how my Twitter search feed used to look before the thieves parked on the lawn...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8002\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.21.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.21.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"817\" />','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision-4','','','2011-04-12 08:22:58','2011-04-12 07:22:58','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8005,1,'2011-04-12 08:23:08','2011-04-12 07:23:08','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? No one really knows. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels? This is how my Twitter search feed used to look before the thieves parked on the lawn...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8002\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.21.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.21.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"817\" />','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision-5','','','2011-04-12 08:23:08','2011-04-12 07:23:08','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8006,1,'2011-04-12 08:31:45','2011-04-12 07:31:45','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\n\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\n\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\n\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\n\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? That\'s anyone\'s guess. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\n\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels? This is how my Twitter search feed used to look before the thieves parked on the lawn...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8002\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.21.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.21.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"817\" />\n\nPS. I can\'t leave this out. Details of these stolen files will be passed to my publishers who will attempt to issue takedown notices. The thieving bastards who run these services are well aware of this process, of course, and will always find some way round it. If you want to understand their cheek take a look at the hoops genuine copyright holders are supposed to go through in order to get stolen material taken off the servers of one of the crooks above, namely letitbit.net.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8007\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.25.45\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.25.45-640x259.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"256\" />\n\nLetitbit.net is currently being hosted in that hotbed of technology activity, Gibraltar. They will be hearing something soon.','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-autosave','','','2011-04-12 08:31:45','2011-04-12 07:31:45','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8007,1,'2011-04-12 08:28:02','2011-04-12 07:28:02','','Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.25.45','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08-25-45','','','2011-04-12 08:28:02','2011-04-12 07:28:02','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.25.45.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8008,1,'2011-04-12 08:25:08','2011-04-12 07:25:08','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? That\'s anyone\'s guess. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels? This is how my Twitter search feed used to look before the thieves parked on the lawn...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8002\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.21.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.21.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"817\" />','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision-6','','','2011-04-12 08:25:08','2011-04-12 07:25:08','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8009,1,'2011-04-12 08:28:32','2011-04-12 07:28:32','<a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">I\'m used to the idea</a> that book thieves -- who like to think of themselves as \'pirates\' or even \'file sharers\' -- use web groups to disseminate their stolen wares. Now it seems they are spreading their efforts to grab money for their theft through Twitter. Here\'s an astonishing example that hit me in the face this morning.\r\n\r\nLike many people in the media I keep track of mentions of my work through a fixed Twitter search pane, in my case through Hootsuite. For the last couple of years this has usually brought up a list of reviews, reader comments and other useful material. When I turn on the Mac this morning I find this instead...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7998\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.06.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.06.35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"964\" />\r\n\r\nAll top seventeen search results on my name (more actually but my screen couldn\'t accommodate them) are links to ripped off ebooks of my work. And naturally each one of those links will try to push the people who follow them into taking out paid-for subscriptions so they can thieve away to their hearts\' content...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7999\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.14.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.14.52-640x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"546\" />\r\n\r\nThe scale of media theft is frankly astonishing these days. I spoke to one colleague in the book business who was just back from a trip to Asia, trying to build book sales there. He said that he spoke to people <em>in the book business</em> who habitually set up their computers each night to download ripped-off music, videos, software... anything they like. A culture in which all digital material is regarded as \'free\' -- or at least available by paying for bandwidth through digital fences such as the one above -- seems to be prevalent.\r\n\r\nHow many of the people ripping off books this way would have bought them if pirate copies weren\'t available? That\'s anyone\'s guess. But I know of two middle-aged, middle-class seemingly respectable Brits who see nothing wrong in getting their books, music and video this way. Not that they\'d ever nick something from a supermarket, mind. That would be dishonest, wouldn\'t it?\r\n\r\nAs to the piracy boom on Twitter... is there anything you can do? Will Twitter bar these people for trying to sell stolen goods through their channels? This is how my Twitter search feed used to look before the thieves parked on the lawn...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8002\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.21.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.21.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"817\" />\r\n\r\nPS. I can\'t leave this out. Details of these stolen files will be passed to my publishers who will attempt to issue takedown notices. The thieving bastards who run these services are well aware of this process, of course, and will always find some way round it. If you want to understand their cheek take a look at the hoops genuine copyright holders are supposed to go through in order to get stolen material taken off the servers of one of the crooks above, namely letitbit.net.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8007\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 08.25.45\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-08.25.45-640x259.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"256\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','The book thieves hit Twitter - big time','','inherit','open','open','','7997-revision-7','','','2011-04-12 08:28:32','2011-04-12 07:28:32','',7997,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7997-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8011,1,'2011-04-12 16:30:46','2011-04-12 15:30:46','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will offer you instant career advice, usually beginning with a declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\n\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\n\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\n\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\n\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\n\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\n\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\n\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own market he outsells me greatly. But in mine I do the same to him, as one would expect.\n\nThe book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach. This is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision','','','2011-04-12 16:30:46','2011-04-12 15:30:46','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8012,1,'2011-04-12 16:31:19','2011-04-12 15:31:19','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will offer you instant career advice, usually beginning with a declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own market he outsells me greatly. But in mine I do the same to him, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThe book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach. This is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow ','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-2','','','2011-04-12 16:31:19','2011-04-12 15:31:19','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8013,1,'2011-04-12 22:08:18','2011-04-12 21:08:18','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\n\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\n\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\n\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\n\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\n\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\n\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\n\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\n\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him, except in the libraries of south east England maybe.  His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more, I expect, than my followers of Italian crime go in much for SF.\n\nThe book world is colossal and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\n\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.\n\n<strong>Update</strong>\n\nCory Doctorow was on Twitter after this post appeared, very quickly indeed. A bit of our polite and interesting interchange is below. Let me make this clear. What I\'m saying here is that I believe people who tell me, and writers like me, \'Use Cory Doctorow as your career template\' are deeply misguided. But I don\'t think Cory Doctorow\'s career template for himself is wrong in any way. It\'s clearly very successful.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8018\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 17.40.08\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17.40.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"721\" />','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-autosave','','','2011-04-12 22:08:18','2011-04-12 21:08:18','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8014,1,'2011-04-12 16:35:26','2011-04-12 15:35:26','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own market he outsells me greatly. But in mine I do the same to him, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThe book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach. This is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow ','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-3','','','2011-04-12 16:35:26','2011-04-12 15:35:26','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8015,1,'2011-04-12 16:37:08','2011-04-12 15:37:08','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him. His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more than mine follow his work. The book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow ','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-4','','','2011-04-12 16:37:08','2011-04-12 15:37:08','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8016,1,'2011-04-12 16:46:08','2011-04-12 15:46:08','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him. His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more than mine follow his work. The book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow ','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-5','','','2011-04-12 16:46:08','2011-04-12 15:46:08','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8017,1,'2011-04-12 16:59:42','2011-04-12 15:59:42','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him. His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more than mine follow his work. The book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-6','','','2011-04-12 16:59:42','2011-04-12 15:59:42','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8018,1,'2011-04-12 17:40:42','2011-04-12 16:40:42','','Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 17.40.08','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17-40-08','','','2011-04-12 17:40:42','2011-04-12 16:40:42','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17.40.08.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8019,1,'2011-04-12 17:00:10','2011-04-12 16:00:10','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him. His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more than mine follow his work. The book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-7','','','2011-04-12 17:00:10','2011-04-12 16:00:10','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8020,1,'2011-04-12 17:41:23','2011-04-12 16:41:23','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him. His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more than mine follow his work. The book world is big and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.\r\n\r\n<strong>Update</strong>\r\n\r\nCory Doctorow was on Twitter after this post appeared, very quickly indeed. A bit of our interchange is below. Let me make this clear. What I\'m saying is that I believe people who tell me, and writers like me, \'Use Cory Doctorow as your career template\' are deeply misguided. I don\'t think Cory Doctorow\'s career template for himself is wrong in any way. It\'s clearly very successful.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8018\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 17.40.08\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17.40.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"721\" />','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-8','','','2011-04-12 17:41:23','2011-04-12 16:41:23','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8021,1,'2011-04-12 17:49:56','2011-04-12 16:49:56','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him, except in the libraries of south east England maybe.  His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more, I expect, that my followers of Italian crime go in much for SF.\r\n\r\nThe book world is colossal and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.\r\n\r\n<strong>Update</strong>\r\n\r\nCory Doctorow was on Twitter after this post appeared, very quickly indeed. A bit of our polite and interesting interchange is below. Let me make this clear. What I\'m saying here is that I believe people who tell me, and writers like me, \'Use Cory Doctorow as your career template\' are deeply misguided. But I don\'t think Cory Doctorow\'s career template for himself is wrong in any way. It\'s clearly very successful.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8018\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 17.40.08\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17.40.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"721\" />','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-9','','','2011-04-12 17:49:56','2011-04-12 16:49:56','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8022,1,'2011-04-13 08:54:42','2011-04-13 07:54:42','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpostlawsuit.com/Home_Page.html\" target=\"_blank\">On the web site created to deal with the lawsuit</a> Tasini adds, \'Arianna Huffington is pursuing the Wal-Martization of creative content and a Third World class of creative people. Actually, that is unfair to Wal-Mart because at least Wal-Mart pays its workers something for the value those workers create. In Huffington’s business model, economic gain is only reserved for her.  Everyone else, apparently, is expected to work for free regardless of the value they create. Greed and selfishness is the order of the day, and that is just wrong.\'\r\n\r\nFighting talk. But here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','publish','open','open','','no-man-but-a-blockhead-ever-wrote-except-for-money','','','2011-04-13 09:52:57','2011-04-13 08:52:57','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8022',0,'post','',4),(8023,1,'2011-04-13 08:41:03','2011-04-13 07:41:03','','Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08-40-29','','','2011-04-13 08:41:03','2011-04-13 07:41:03','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8024,1,'2011-04-13 08:40:00','2011-04-13 07:40:00','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money,','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision','','','2011-04-13 08:40:00','2011-04-13 07:40:00','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8025,1,'2011-04-13 08:50:37','2011-04-13 07:50:37','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\n\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\n\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\n\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\n\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\n\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\n\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site adds, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\n\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo. You got it wrong, folks. You owe them for printing the stuff in the first place.\n\nIt should be an intere','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-2','','','2011-04-13 08:50:37','2011-04-13 07:50:37','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8026,1,'2011-04-13 08:51:10','2011-04-13 07:51:10','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site adds, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo. You got it wrong, folks. You owe them for printing the stuff in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later?','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-3','','','2011-04-13 08:51:10','2011-04-13 07:51:10','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8027,1,'2011-04-13 08:51:18','2011-04-13 07:51:18','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site adds, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo. You got it wrong, folks. You owe them for printing the stuff in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later?','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-4','','','2011-04-13 08:51:18','2011-04-13 07:51:18','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8028,1,'2011-04-13 08:53:46','2011-04-13 07:53:46','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo. You got it wrong, folks. You owe them for printing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later?','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-5','','','2011-04-13 08:53:46','2011-04-13 07:53:46','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8029,1,'2011-04-13 09:52:43','2011-04-13 08:52:43','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\n\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\n\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\n\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\n\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpostlawsuit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.</a>\n\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\n\n<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpostlawsuit.com/Home_Page.html\" target=\"_blank\">On the web site created to deal with the lawsuit</a> Tasini adds, \'Arianna Huffington is pursuing the Wal-Martization of creative content and a Third World class of creative people. Actually, that is unfair to Wal-Mart because at least Wal-Mart pays its workers something for the value those workers create. In Huffington’s business model, economic gain is only reserved for her.  Everyone else, apparently, is expected to work for free regardless of the value they create. Greed and selfishness is the order of the day, and that is just wrong.\'\n\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\n\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\n\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\n\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\n\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-autosave','','','2011-04-13 09:52:43','2011-04-13 08:52:43','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8030,1,'2011-04-13 08:54:42','2011-04-13 07:54:42','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for printing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later?','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-6','','','2011-04-13 08:54:42','2011-04-13 07:54:42','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8031,1,'2011-04-13 09:00:52','2011-04-13 08:00:52','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later?','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-7','','','2011-04-13 09:00:52','2011-04-13 08:00:52','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8032,1,'2011-04-13 09:11:19','2011-04-13 08:11:19','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-8','','','2011-04-13 09:11:19','2011-04-13 08:11:19','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8033,1,'2011-04-13 09:12:54','2011-04-13 08:12:54','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-9','','','2011-04-13 09:12:54','2011-04-13 08:12:54','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8034,1,'2011-04-13 09:13:16','2011-04-13 08:13:16','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-10','','','2011-04-13 09:13:16','2011-04-13 08:13:16','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8035,1,'2011-04-13 09:13:38','2011-04-13 08:13:38','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-11','','','2011-04-13 09:13:38','2011-04-13 08:13:38','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8036,1,'2011-04-13 09:50:43','2011-04-13 08:50:43','So said Samuel Johnson, or so Boswell reports. That was a couple of centuries ago and a bit. But it\'s still sounds very good advice to me. \'Free\' is surely one of the most misused words of the twenty first century. What it usually means is... someone else pays. Or someone else gets the money, as the bloggers who made the Huffington Post what it is are just finding out.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8023\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-13 at 08.40.29\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-13-at-08.40.29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"565\" />\r\n\r\nHuffPo is, of course, a highly successful phenomenon.  Created by the charismatic Arianna Huffington as a new age liberal media news and opinion service, it took the web world by storm, in America at least. What made it great, to a large extent, was the wide range of people -- nine thousand or so in all --  who were willing to write extensively for it without receiving a penny for their work.\r\n\r\nThey broke Sam Johnson\'s rule. They wrote for free. Oh dear.\r\n\r\nSo wonderful did HuffPo turn out to be that Arianna sold the whole shebang to the distinctly old web age and unliberal AOL in February for a staggering $315m.  Writing for Arianna for free was one thing. Writing for a big, commercial lumbering giant like AOL for free.... you see the problem?\r\n\r\nSo <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday came the inevitable: a law suit</a>. All those thousands of unpaid writers reckon that their work constituted a third of the value of HuffPo when it was sold. <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpostlawsuit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">So they\'d like their cut -- $105m please.</a>\r\n\r\nOne of those leading the action, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tasini\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Tasini</a>, says, \'Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington\'s plantation.\'\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s the most interesting quote of all. Describing the lawsuit as \'baseless\' (aren\'t they always?) the site retorts, \'Our bloggers utilise our platform to connect and ensure that their ideas and views are seen by as many people as possible. It\'s the same reason hundreds of people go on TV shows – to broadcast their views to as wide an audience as possible.\'\r\n\r\nSo never mind all the hours, the sweat, the dedication that went into those articles you wrote for HuffPo (which don\'t really compare with a quick five-minute off-the-cuff interview on a TV show). You got it wrong, folks. You owe <em>them</em> for publishing the stuff in the first place. Just as authors owe book thieves gratitude for \'advertising\' their wares to the world at large.\r\n\r\nThis should be a field day for the lawyers. I\'m no expert here -- who is? But I can\'t help wondering... if you give something away in the first place, how can you <em>un</em>give it later? If you walk around with a sign on your back saying \'Screw Me\' should you really be surprised if one day you find yourself screwed?\r\n\r\nCue some wise and uncensored words on this subject from the great Harlan Ellison...\r\n\r\n[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE[/embed]','No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money','','inherit','open','open','','8022-revision-12','','','2011-04-13 09:50:43','2011-04-13 08:50:43','',8022,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8022-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8037,1,'2011-04-13 15:56:23','2011-04-13 14:56:23','As I\'ve said here before, I\'m a great admirer of Word 2010 on Windows. Word 2011 for the Mac is a stinker. As is the new Mac Outlook which manages to replace something (Entourage) that actually did more than the new product that\'s taken its place.\r\n\r\nToday Microsoft have <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ef1e612f-d8e3-4628-9fe4-ad136f0debd3\" target=\"_blank\">released their first patch for Mac Office 2011</a> -- a whopping 250 MB if you please. The quiet nudge and wink after everyone realised what a stinker the original release went something along the lines of, \'Well, we know, but we had to get something out so we\'ll fix the holes somewhere along the way.\'\r\n\r\nThey haven\'t, of course. There\'s the <a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2525412\" target=\"_blank\">usual bunch of security and bug fixes</a>. Outlook g<a href=\"http://blog.officeformac.com/coming-soon-office-for-mac-2011-sp1/\" target=\"_blank\">ets a little better at syncing a few things</a>, but not Google and not MobileMe after May 5th. Word feels marginally less sluggish than it did before but it\'s still not a patch on the Windows version -- you can\'t word count a scene with manually selecting it for example.\r\n\r\nThe Mac really is crying out for a decent, modern word processor capable of managing and navigating manuscript-length documents.\r\n\r\nLooks like the last hope now is the next release of Apple Pages. Which is, by the way, long, long overdue. Fingers crossed we\'ll see it before the summer is out and someone in Apple has listened and given it proper document navigation features.','Microsoft updates Mac Office 11 -- sucky as ever','','publish','open','open','','microsoft-updates-mac-office-11-sucky-as-ever','','','2011-04-13 15:57:47','2011-04-13 14:57:47','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8037',0,'post','',2),(8038,1,'2011-04-13 15:55:52','2011-04-13 14:55:52','As I\'ve said here before, I\'m a great admirer of Word 2010 on Windows. Word 2011 for the Mac is a stinker. 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Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-8','','','2011-04-13 17:36:41','2011-04-13 16:36:41','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8052,1,'2011-04-13 17:36:48','2011-04-13 16:36:48','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-9','','','2011-04-13 17:36:48','2011-04-13 16:36:48','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8053,1,'2011-04-13 17:37:32','2011-04-13 16:37:32','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-10','','','2011-04-13 17:37:32','2011-04-13 16:37:32','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8054,1,'2011-04-13 17:38:28','2011-04-13 16:38:28','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-11','','','2011-04-13 17:38:28','2011-04-13 16:38:28','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8055,1,'2011-04-13 17:43:04','2011-04-13 16:43:04','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\n\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-autosave','','','2011-04-13 17:43:04','2011-04-13 16:43:04','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8056,1,'2011-04-13 17:41:58','2011-04-13 16:41:58','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-12','','','2011-04-13 17:41:58','2011-04-13 16:41:58','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8057,1,'2011-04-13 17:43:07','2011-04-13 16:43:07','With book nine in the Costa series now out I\'m delighted to tell you that my UK publisher, Pan Macmillan, are showing such faith in my little Romans they\'re reissuing the original three books in the series in smart new covers later this year.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a preview of the covers. Hope you like them -- I surely do, and being blessed with such an enthusiastic publisher.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc.jpg\"></a><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042 alignleft\" title=\"SEASON FOR THE DEAD\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEASON-FOR-THE-DEAD--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES-.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8043 alignleft\" title=\"VILLA OF MYSTERIES\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VILLA-OF-MYSTERIES--195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8041 alignleft\" title=\"Sacred Cut fc\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Sacred-Cut-fc-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLook for an August release though pre-orders are available at online retailers now.','A new look for the Costa series','','inherit','open','open','','8040-revision-13','','','2011-04-13 17:43:07','2011-04-13 16:43:07','',8040,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8040-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8058,1,'2011-04-13 22:00:15','2011-04-13 21:00:15','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nIn case you didn\'t notice that last sentence is the kicker.\r\n\r\nWhen I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time to peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\r\n\r\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','publish','open','open','','dont-give-up-the-day-job-until-the-time-is-right','','','2011-04-14 06:15:26','2011-04-14 05:15:26','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8058',0,'post','',3),(8059,1,'2011-04-13 21:19:07','2011-04-13 20:19:07','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since I wrote <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase.\n\nLet me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and doubtless headed for fail</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not</li>\n	<li>Most of us have only one life and twenty four hours a day in which to pursue both leisure and work. Which means we need to work out what to do with those twenty four hours very carefully.</li>\n</ul>\nAuthors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision','','','2011-04-13 21:19:07','2011-04-13 20:19:07','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8060,1,'2011-04-13 21:20:53','2011-04-13 20:20:53','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since I wrote <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase.\n\nLet me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and doubtless headed for fail</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not</li>\n	<li>Most of us have only one life and twenty four hours a day in which to pursue both leisure and work. Which means we need to work out what to do with those twenty four hours very carefully.</li>\n</ul>\nWhen I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept doing a parallel career. For the last decade of that it was writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for th\n\nAuthors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can emulate him.\n\nSo by following the self-pub give-it-away-free route you lose those multiple revenue streams and, yes, need to go chasing another job.\n\nB','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-2','','','2011-04-13 21:20:53','2011-04-13 20:20:53','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8061,1,'2011-04-13 21:26:38','2011-04-13 20:26:38','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since I wrote <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful Electronic Publishing Bingo card again) has weighed in too.\n\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\n</ul>\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it was writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little less needy. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote mo better books.\n\nAuthors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can emulate him.\n\nSo by following the self-pub give-it-away-free route you lose those multiple revenue streams and, yes, need to go chasing another job.\n\nB','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-3','','','2011-04-13 21:26:38','2011-04-13 20:26:38','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8062,1,'2011-04-13 21:26:46','2011-04-13 20:26:46','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since I wrote <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful Electronic Publishing Bingo card again) has weighed in too.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it was writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little less needy. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nAuthors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can emulate him.\r\n\r\nSo by following the self-pub give-it-away-free route you lose those multiple revenue streams and, yes, need to go chasing another job.\r\n\r\nB','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-4','','','2011-04-13 21:26:46','2011-04-13 20:26:46','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8063,1,'2011-04-13 21:32:17','2011-04-13 20:32:17','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since I wrote <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\n\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\n</ul>\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it was writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\n\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I I managed to devote my time and my concentration on the books alone. Would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. And journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\n\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And fritte\n\nAuthors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can emulate him.\n\nSo by following the self-pub give-it-away-free route you lose those multiple revenue streams and, yes, need to go chasing another job.\n\nB','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-5','','','2011-04-13 21:32:17','2011-04-13 20:32:17','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8064,1,'2011-04-13 21:37:23','2011-04-13 20:37:23','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\n\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\n</ul>\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\n\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I managed to devote my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to spend more time on it. To learn. To try to develop.\n\nThis was a risk of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely off their trolley. This whole business is based upon precarious decisions and insane gambles. That\'s the nature of the game. It makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to lay down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me, anyway, writing.\n\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. And journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\n\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And frittering away your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, will take you away from your writing.\n\nFinally, let\'s remember authors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can emulate him.\n\n&nbsp;','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-6','','','2011-04-13 21:37:23','2011-04-13 20:37:23','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8065,1,'2011-04-13 21:37:48','2011-04-13 20:37:48','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I managed to devote my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to spend more time on it. To learn. To try to develop.\r\n\r\nThis was a risk of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely off their trolley. This whole business is based upon precarious decisions and insane gambles. That\'s the nature of the game. It makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to lay down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me, anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. And journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And frittering away your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, will take you away from your writing.\r\n\r\nFinally, let\'s remember authors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean anhone','Yet more on multiple revenue streams (sorry)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-7','','','2011-04-13 21:37:48','2011-04-13 20:37:48','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8066,1,'2011-04-13 21:39:35','2011-04-13 20:39:35','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\n\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\n</ul>\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\n\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I managed to devote my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to spend more time on it. To learn. To try to develop.\n\nThis was a risk of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely off their trolley. This whole business is based upon precarious decisions and insane gambles. That\'s the nature of the game. It makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me, anyway, writing.\n\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be a writer and nothing moreAnd journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\n\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And frittering away your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, will take you away from your writing.\n\nFinally, let\'s remember authors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean anhone','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-8','','','2011-04-13 21:39:35','2011-04-13 20:39:35','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8067,1,'2011-04-13 21:40:12','2011-04-13 20:40:12','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I managed to devote my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to spend more time on it. To learn. To try to develop.\r\n\r\nThis was a risk of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely off their trolley. This whole business is based upon precarious decisions and insane gambles. That\'s the nature of the game. It makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me, anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be a writer and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And frittering away your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, will take you away from your writing.\r\n\r\nFinally, let\'s remember authors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can too.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-9','','','2011-04-13 21:40:12','2011-04-13 20:40:12','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8068,1,'2011-04-13 21:40:20','2011-04-13 20:40:20','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I managed to devote my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to spend more time on it. To learn. To try to develop.\r\n\r\nThis was a risk of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely off their trolley. This whole business is based upon precarious decisions and insane gambles. That\'s the nature of the game. It makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me, anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be a writer and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity, but your odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals. And frittering away your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, will take you away from your writing.\r\n\r\nFinally, let\'s remember authors can have multiple revenue streams without doing much more than write a book. You can have an agent who will sell that book into other markets: audio, foreign translation, TV and movies. Except if you\'re self published you can\'t because self-published authors generally speaking won\'t have agent. Yes I know Cory Doctorow does but as I keep saying repeatedly Cory Doctorow is Cory Doctorow and no one else. Just because he can do something doesn\'t mean you can too.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-10','','','2011-04-13 21:40:20','2011-04-13 20:40:20','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8069,1,'2011-04-13 21:59:41','2011-04-13 20:59:41','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\n\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\n<ul>\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\n</ul>\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\n\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\n\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\n\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\n\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\n\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\n\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\n\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-autosave','','','2011-04-13 21:59:41','2011-04-13 20:59:41','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8070,1,'2011-04-13 21:46:19','2011-04-13 20:46:19','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration on the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-11','','','2011-04-13 21:46:19','2011-04-13 20:46:19','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8071,1,'2011-04-13 21:54:55','2011-04-13 20:54:55','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\r\n\r\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-12','','','2011-04-13 21:54:55','2011-04-13 20:54:55','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8072,1,'2011-04-13 21:55:13','2011-04-13 20:55:13','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\r\n\r\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-13','','','2011-04-13 21:55:13','2011-04-13 20:55:13','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8073,1,'2011-04-13 21:58:34','2011-04-13 20:58:34','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThat last sentence is the kicker. When I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\r\n\r\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-14','','','2011-04-13 21:58:34','2011-04-13 20:58:34','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(8074,1,'2011-04-13 22:08:18','2011-04-13 21:08:18','I honestly never dreamed I\'d be writing a blog post about writing that would include the term \'multiple revenue streams\'. But ever since <a title=\"Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/why-i-dont-take-career-advice-from-cory-doctorow/\">the Cory Doctorow</a> post, and <a href=\"http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/\">the ensuing Twitter exchanges</a>, it seems impossible to escape the damned phrase. Now John Scalzi (have to mention his wonderful <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Publishing Bingo card</a> again) <a href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/04/13/multiple-revenue-streams-revisited/\" target=\"_blank\">has weighed in too</a>.\r\n\r\nSo let me try and put down what I think succinctly here.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Anyone who gives up the day job and tries to become a full-time writer from scratch is arguably insane and probably headed for a sticky end.</li>\r\n	<li>Multiple income streams -- rich wives or husbands, inherited fortunes, lottery winnings, adopting a guru-like stance which gets you fancy paid speaking engagements -- are a good idea in any walk of life, writing or not. Provided they don\'t get in the way of the real work.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nIn case you didn\'t notice that last sentence is the kicker.\r\n\r\nWhen I started out writing I couldn’t make enough money from books alone. So I kept on with a parallel career in journalism. For the last decade of that it consisted of writing an 800-word weekly column for the <em>Sunday Times</em>. Latterly they paid me £40,000 a year for those 800 words a week, which was a lot of money frankly. In 2005 I quit the paper. Partly because I was bored with the work. Partly because a movie deal made me feel a little more secure financially than I had in a long time. But principally because I felt it was time to focus on my fiction and devote more time to trying to write better books.\r\n\r\nDid I manage? In financial terms, yes. That £40K from journalism got made up elsewhere as I devoted my time and concentration to the books alone. More importantly from a personal point of view, I feel my writing got better. I was able to work at it harder. To learn. To question and edit and rewrite to a greater degree than I could when I was working as a journalist too.\r\n\r\nThis was perilous of course, but anyone who wants a writing career without risk is surely deeply delusional. This whole business is based upon questionable decisions and insane gambles, both by authors and -- though we rarely recognise the fact -- by publishers too. That\'s the nature of the game. As an individual author it makes sense to lay off your bets as much as you can. But you still have to plonk down your wad on the main horse, which is, for me anyway, writing.\r\n\r\nTo put it another way... would I be where I am today if I were still hacking out that 800-word column for the <em>Sunday Times? </em>No. I wouldn\'t have had the space to develop my writing. I would always have been asking myself, \'What might I have achieved if I\'d had the guts to quit everything and try to be an author and nothing more?\' Oh... and let\'s be frank. Journalism being what it was I\'d probably have been fired along the way too.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s a tough, demanding business. Sooner or later you have to decide whether you\'re in for the duration or just a bit player. People who manage multiple careers -- speaking, being gurus, developing celebrity status -- are the exceptions in the book business, not the rule. They may get all the publicity and in the case of a few individuals a good chunk of the money.\r\n\r\nYour odds of becoming one of them are slim indeed. You stand a much better chance of developing a career through writing good books, at regular intervals, getting your face and work known as widely as possible and developing a reputation as a solid, professional, original author in your own right. Devoting your time on peripheral activities, however financially rewarding, however necessary at times, will take you away from all that.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget that a canny author develops multiple revenue streams in any case. Through foreign translations, through audio sales, public lending right (if it exists in your country), through TV and media deals.\r\n\r\nProvided, of course, you\'re published conventionally through literary agents and printed books that find their way into libraries and book fairs. None of which will easily come the way of most self-pubbers following the current fashion.','Don\'t give up the day job (until the time is right)','','inherit','open','open','','8058-revision-15','','','2011-04-13 22:08:18','2011-04-13 21:08:18','',8058,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8058-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(8213,1,'2011-04-21 15:17:25','2011-04-21 14:17:25','Not long ago it was hard to move without someone telling you the world was about to descend into jackbooted authoritarian dystopia. Why? The last Labour government was passing something called the Digital Economy Act, and it would turn ISPs into snoopers and send masked men out into the night, breaking down doors and smashing the iPads of fearful \'filesharers\' who had transgressed the copyright laws.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_8214\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"203\" caption=\"Photo from the Register\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8214\" title=\"freetard_demo_stop_this_sort_of_thing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/freetard_demo_stop_this_sort_of_thing-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" />[/caption]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/freetard_demo_stop_this_sort_of_thing.jpeg\"></a>The anti-DEA propaganda was a fad wonderfully prosecuted by Twitter with all the logic and rational argument 140 characters can muster. I never looked at it very closely to be honest. Something about the whole thing stunk. The apex -- or apogee depending who to believe -- <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/org_demo_photo_album/\" target=\"_blank\">happened on March 25 last year</a> with a small protest outside Westminster attended by fellows wearing black tape over their mouths or masks like this chap on the right.\r\n\r\nOh, and inevitably Mr Cory Doctorow turned up to deliver one of his customary apocalyptic warnings, urging that the DEA be voted down with the words (no, I am not making this up), \'<strong>Tell your friends. It\'s our last chance for a free and open society going forward</strong>.\'\r\n\r\nAs Orlowski noted at the time, \'I particularly liked the going forward.\'\r\n\r\nThe DEA did go through Parliament. When the new coalition government came in they announced they still thought it was reasonable legislation too, er, \'going forward\'.\r\n\r\nSo BT and TalkTalk, two companies notorious for the rotten way they treat their customers, went to law to try to defeat it. Yesterday they lost. If you followed the original campaign and thought, \'Hmm... there must be something in all these dire predictions\' I suggest you take a look at Orlowski\'s <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/21/digital_economy_act_high_court/\" target=\"_blank\">revealing analysis of the facts that emerged in the ruling.</a>\r\n\r\nQuoting from the article, \'High Court Judge Kenneth Parker summarised the DEA as \"a more efficient, focussed and fair system than the current arrangements\". Over and over, he pointed out that the Act didn\'t actually say what the objecting ISPs thought it said.\'\r\n\r\nNow for a cracking quote from Judge Parker himself, \'The DEA proceeds on the premise, first, that a significant number of infringers <strong>do not at the moment fully appreciate that what they are doing seriously infringes the legal and moral rights of others</strong> and that, although individual behaviour of this kind may seem <strong>trivial and excusable</strong>, the general effect may well be very damaging to the creative industries, a notorious example of what is sometimes called the tyranny of small decisions that have <strong>ruinous economic consequences.\'</strong>\r\n\r\n\'The recipient [of a warning] will be better informed about the nature of his conduct and of the likely consequences for others, and he may be disposed to cease, or at least to modify, such conduct. He may be persuaded to do so, even if it is contrary to his immediate interests: the days when it was assumed that consumers act only out of the pursuit of economic self interest, and do not, quite rationally, respond to moral, altruistic or longer term considerations, are long gone.\'\r\n\r\nThose are Orlowski\'s emphases and I\'m happy to leave them in.\r\n\r\nSo the scare stories were just that -- scare stories. The truth is the DEA is a mild piece of legislation that will probably end up in nothing more than a bunch of warning letters to persistent offenders, telling them not to be so naughty in future. After which the tech-savvy ones will find a way to cruise the torrents without being caught. A few pirates will object, fight the thing all the way until they turn into digital martyrs, one assumes. But the world is never short of nutters, especially when it comes to matters of the interwebs.\r\n\r\nSo much for lurid and utterly ludicrous stories like this...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8217\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-21 at 15.11.22\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-21-at-15.11.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"476\" />\r\n\r\nI do wonder though... will all the trendy media rags that gave the anti-DEA campaign such free publicity finally get around to telling their readers the modest and unalarming truth?','Digital rebels caught naked without a cause','','publish','open','open','','digital-rebels-caught-naked-without-a-cause','','','2011-04-21 15:25:23','2011-04-21 14:25:23','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8213',0,'post','',1),(8076,1,'2011-04-14 08:07:25','2011-04-14 07:07:25','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Flock-main-window.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8078\" title=\"Flock main window\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Flock-main-window-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>It\'s my entirely unscientific and unresearched opinion that most people want to spend less time on \'social media\' right now than they did when Facebook and Twitter and all the others who fell by the wayside were flavour of the month.\r\n\r\nSo it surprises me not one whit that Flock, the \'social media\' browser that\'s been touting itself as The Next Big Thing since 2006, just <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/13/flock_browser_no_more/\" target=\"_blank\">bit the dust</a>. I\'m indebted to The Register for a link to the BBC web site for what it accurately calls a \'<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm\">toe-curling extended profile</a>\' of the project in its prime. Flock worked its way through $30 million of investors\' money before finally rolling over and expiring. Just read the BBC piece to understand how convinced its inventors were that we all desperately needed what it would deliver.\r\n\r\nBoy do the futurists get it badly wrong sometimes.\r\n\r\nFlock spent its last few months in the ownership of the people behind that wonderful social invention, Farmville, though they just bought the development team, not the browser, which is now officially \'unsupported\'.\r\n\r\nIf you are in desperate need of a replacement there\'s already a new kid on the social media browser block. It\'s called <a href=\"http://www.rockmelt.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockmelt</a>. Since I\'d quite like to finish the book I\'m writing I will, however, be giving it a miss, though others with more time on their hands may feel differently and for all I know it is truly wonderful indeed.','Social media browser Flock fatally unfriended','','publish','open','open','','social-media-browser-flock-fatally-unfriended','','','2011-04-14 08:07:25','2011-04-14 07:07:25','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8076',0,'post','',0),(8077,1,'2011-04-14 08:03:46','2011-04-14 07:03:46','It\'s my entirely unscientific and unresearched opinion that most people want to spend less time on \'social media\' right now than they did when Facebook and Twitter and all the others who fell by the wayside were flavour of the month.\n\nSo it surprises me not one whit that Flock, the \'social media\' browser that\'s been touting itself as The Next Big Thing since 2006, has <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/13/flock_browser_no_more/\" target=\"_blank\">bit the dust</a>. I\'m indebted to The Register for a link to the BBC web site for what it accurately calls a \'<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm\">toe-curling extended profile</a>\' of the project. Flock worked its way through $30 million of investors\' money before finally rolling over and expiring. Just read the BBC piece to understand how convinced its inventors were that we all desperately needed what it would deliver.\n\nBoy do the futurists get it badly wrong sometimes.\n\nTo add insult to injury Flock spent its last few months in the ownership of the people behind that wonderful social invention, Farmville, though they just bought the development team, not the browser, which is now officially \'unsupported\'.\n\nIf you are in desperate need of a replacement there\'s already a new kid on the social media browser block. It\'s called Rockmelt. 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I\'m indebted to The Register for a link to the BBC web site for what it accurately calls a \'<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm\">toe-curling extended profile</a>\' of the project in its prime. Flock worked its way through $30 million of investors\' money before finally rolling over and expiring. Just read the BBC piece to understand how convinced its inventors were that we all desperately needed what it would deliver.\n\nBoy do the futurists get it badly wrong sometimes.\n\nFlock spent its last few months in the ownership of the people behind that wonderful social invention, Farmville, though they just bought the development team, not the browser, which is now officially \'unsupported\'.\n\nIf you are in desperate need of a replacement there\'s already a new kid on the social media browser block. It\'s called <a href=\"http://www.rockmelt.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockmelt</a>. 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I\'m indebted to The Register for a link to the BBC web site for what it accurately calls a \'<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm\">toe-curling extended profile</a>\' of the project in its prime. Flock worked its way through $30 million of investors\' money before finally rolling over and expiring. Just read the BBC piece to understand how convinced its inventors were that we all desperately needed what it would deliver.\n\nBoy do the futurists get it badly wrong sometimes.\n\nFlock spent its last few months in the ownership of the people behind that wonderful social invention, Farmville, though they just bought the development team, not the browser, which is now officially \'unsupported\'.\n\nIf you are in desperate need of a replacement there\'s already a new kid on the social media browser block. It\'s called <a href=\"http://www.rockmelt.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockmelt</a>. Since I\'d quite like to finish the book I\'m writing I will, however, be giving it a miss, though others with more time on their hands may feel differently and for all I know it is truly wonderful indeed.','Social media browser Flock fatally unfriended','','inherit','open','open','','8076-autosave','','','2011-04-14 08:08:32','2011-04-14 07:08:32','',8076,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8076-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8081,1,'2011-04-14 14:50:42','2011-04-14 13:50:42','One of the keys to Scrivener is working in sections -- scenes, chapters, parts, whatever you choose to call them. Sometimes you\'re writing one scene and realise it\'s actually two. Sometimes it works the other way round. You realise two consecutive scenes need to be combined into one.\r\n\r\nThere are very simple ways of handling both these scenarios with a simple keystroke. Watch...\r\n\r\nWe start with a scene we want to split, called Nic and Agata.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8082\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\nMove your cursor to the point where you want your new scene to start. A simple keystroke, or using the Split command under Documents, will break the current document into two separate ones (with the title of any selected text if you want it or an auto-title otherwise).\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8087\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.38\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.38-300x121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8083\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"141\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now to do it the other way round. Select the two scenes you want to combine and go for Merge.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8084\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.05\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.05-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And we\'re back to where we were.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beats cut and paste, eh?</p>','Two Scrivener basics you may have missed','','publish','open','open','','two-scrivener-basics-you-may-have-missed','','','2011-04-14 08:23:57','2011-04-14 07:23:57','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8081',0,'post','',4),(8082,1,'2011-04-14 08:17:49','2011-04-14 07:17:49','','Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08-14-18','','','2011-04-14 08:17:49','2011-04-14 07:17:49','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8083,1,'2011-04-14 08:19:06','2011-04-14 07:19:06','','Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.52','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08-13-52','','','2011-04-14 08:19:06','2011-04-14 07:19:06','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.52.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8084,1,'2011-04-14 08:20:28','2011-04-14 07:20:28','','Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.05','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08-14-05','','','2011-04-14 08:20:28','2011-04-14 07:20:28','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.05.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8085,1,'2011-04-14 08:19:49','2011-04-14 07:19:49','One of the keys to Scrivener is working in sections -- scenes, chapters, parts, whatever you choose to call them. Sometimes you\'re writing one scene and realise it\'s actually two. Sometimes it works the other way round. You realise two consecutive scenes need to be combined into one.\n\nThere are very simple ways of handling both these scenarios with a simple keystroke. Watch...\n\nWe start with a scene we want to split, called Nic and Agata.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8082\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\nA simple keystroke, or using the Split command under Documents, will break it into two separate documents (with the title of any selected text if you want it or an auto-title otherwise).\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8083\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"141\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now to do it the other way ro</p>','Two Scrivener basics you may have missed','','inherit','open','open','','8081-revision','','','2011-04-14 08:19:49','2011-04-14 07:19:49','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8081-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8086,1,'2011-04-14 08:24:04','2011-04-14 07:24:04','One of the keys to Scrivener is working in sections -- scenes, chapters, parts, whatever you choose to call them. Sometimes you\'re writing one scene and realise it\'s actually two. Sometimes it works the other way round. You realise two consecutive scenes need to be combined into one.\r\n\r\nThere are very simple ways of handling both these scenarios with a simple keystroke. Watch...\r\n\r\nWe start with a scene we want to split, called Nic and Agata.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8082\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\nMove your cursor to the point where you want your new scene to start. A simple keystroke, or using the Split command under Documents, will break the current document into two separate ones (with the title of any selected text if you want it or an auto-title otherwise).\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8087\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.38\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.38-300x121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8083\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"141\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now to do it the other way round. Select the two scenes you want to combine and go for Merge.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8084\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.05\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.05-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And we\'re back to where we were.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beats cut and paste, eh?</p>','Two Scrivener basics you may have missed','','inherit','open','open','','8081-autosave','','','2011-04-14 08:24:04','2011-04-14 07:24:04','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8081-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8087,1,'2011-04-14 08:23:30','2011-04-14 07:23:30','','Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.38','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08-13-38','','','2011-04-14 08:23:30','2011-04-14 07:23:30','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.38.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8088,1,'2011-04-14 08:21:36','2011-04-14 07:21:36','One of the keys to Scrivener is working in sections -- scenes, chapters, parts, whatever you choose to call them. Sometimes you\'re writing one scene and realise it\'s actually two. Sometimes it works the other way round. You realise two consecutive scenes need to be combined into one.\r\n\r\nThere are very simple ways of handling both these scenarios with a simple keystroke. Watch...\r\n\r\nWe start with a scene we want to split, called Nic and Agata.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8082\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\nA simple keystroke, or using the Split command under Documents, will break it into two separate documents (with the title of any selected text if you want it or an auto-title otherwise).\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8083\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.13.52\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.13.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"141\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now to do it the other way round. Select the two scenes you want to combine and go for Merge.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8084\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.05\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.05-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And we\'re back to where we were.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-14 at 08.14.18\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-08.14.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beats cut and paste, eh?</p>','Two Scrivener basics you may have missed','','inherit','open','open','','8081-revision-2','','','2011-04-14 08:21:36','2011-04-14 07:21:36','',8081,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8081-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8089,1,'2011-04-12 22:07:12','2011-04-12 21:07:12','One of the very odd things about the writing business is how complete strangers, with no knowledge of it except that they once bought a book, will tell you how you should be running your professional career, usually with a starting declaration that you somehow got everything wrong in the first place.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like someone buying a copy of \'The Dummies Guide to Excel\' and thinking it qualifies them to be chairman of the Federal Reserve. But hey... I may have sixteen or so books out there in twenty plus languages, a movie, a TV series in development and a career that\'s kept me happy for a good few years.\r\n\r\nIt still doesn\'t stop someone responding to an anti-piracy piece with the familiar retort, \'It\'s advertising, dude. Haven\'t you read Cory Doctorow? Don\'t you know what the future is?\'\r\n\r\nActually I don\'t know what the future is, and nor do many people in publishing right now. Though I do know a future in which books are stolen, not paid for, isn\'t one that\'s headed for happy times.\r\n\r\nAll the same the \'listen to Doctorow\' stuff does crop up all the time. He\'s entitled to his opinion. He works in a very different field to mine, one that appeals to the geek crowd who seem to think they know everything there is to know about where publishing is headed. Good luck to him.\r\n\r\nBut before anyone else comes onto this site and advises me to learn from the feet of Cory Doctorow will you <strong>please</strong> take a look at these two pages.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10255392?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of Cory Doctorow\'s books available through the busy libraries of South East England.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/CHGENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ/10253540?ISGLB=1\" target=\"_blank\">This is a list of mine</a>.\r\n\r\nDoctorow has eight entries, all of them standard books. I have one hundred and eleven which cover hardback, paperback, audio and large print. I\'m sure in his own field he outsells me greatly. But in mine it\'s no contest, as one would expect.\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t mean I\'m a \'bigger\' writer than him, except in the libraries of south east England maybe.  His fans have doubtless never heard of me, any more, I expect, than my followers of Italian crime go in much for SF.\r\n\r\nThe book world is colossal and complex and, thank goodness, full of enormous variety. A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work for me, because I have a different readership, notably a very strong one in libraries for loaned print copies, which is a market self publishing and free electronic versions simply cannot reach.\r\n\r\nThis is not a one-size-fits-all business, thank goodness. And anyone who thinks it is simply displays their basic ignorance of how it works.\r\n\r\n<strong>Update</strong>\r\n\r\nCory Doctorow was on Twitter after this post appeared, very quickly indeed. A bit of our polite and interesting interchange is below. Let me make this clear. What I\'m saying here is that I believe people who tell me, and writers like me, \'Use Cory Doctorow as your career template\' are deeply misguided. But I don\'t think Cory Doctorow\'s career template for himself is wrong in any way. It\'s clearly very successful.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8018\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-12 at 17.40.08\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-12-at-17.40.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"721\" />','Why I don\'t take career advice from Cory Doctorow','','inherit','open','open','','8010-revision-10','','','2011-04-12 22:07:12','2011-04-12 21:07:12','',8010,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8010-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8090,1,'2011-04-14 15:21:35','2011-04-14 14:21:35','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books since he turned up. He\'s part of my career, a big and important part (and gets a bit of a nod for that in next year\'s book). My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the grass for some reason. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the turf I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the job\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to some other way to fill the space.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. 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A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\n\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. 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A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\n\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. He\'s part of my career. My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\n\n2. A mowing machine.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\n\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deer X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\n\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\n\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. 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A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. He\'s part of my career. My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. 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A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. He\'s part of my career. My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-4','','','2011-04-14 15:17:15','2011-04-14 14:17:15','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8097,1,'2011-04-14 15:17:23','2011-04-14 14:17:23','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. I write in all sorts of places, in my head, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some places are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. He\'s part of my career. My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-5','','','2011-04-14 15:17:23','2011-04-14 14:17:23','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8098,1,'2011-04-14 15:17:51','2011-04-14 14:17:51','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books or so since he turned up. He\'s part of my career. My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. 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All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-7','','','2011-04-14 15:17:59','2011-04-14 14:17:59','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8100,1,'2011-04-14 15:18:42','2011-04-14 14:18:42','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books since he turned up. He\'s part of my career, a big and important part (and gets a bit of a nod for that in next year\'s book). My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-8','','','2011-04-14 15:18:42','2011-04-14 14:18:42','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8101,1,'2011-04-14 15:18:51','2011-04-14 14:18:51','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books since he turned up. He\'s part of my career, a big and important part (and gets a bit of a nod for that in next year\'s book). My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the lawn. Don\'t know why. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the grass I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the work\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-9','','','2011-04-14 15:18:51','2011-04-14 14:18:51','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8102,1,'2011-04-14 15:20:27','2011-04-14 14:20:27','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books since he turned up. He\'s part of my career, a big and important part (and gets a bit of a nod for that in next year\'s book). My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the grass for some reason. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the turf I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the job\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-10','','','2011-04-14 15:20:27','2011-04-14 14:20:27','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8103,1,'2011-04-14 15:20:34','2011-04-14 14:20:34','It\'s a myth that you only write when you\'re sitting in front of a computer. In my head I write in all sorts of places, scribbling down notes shortly after when I can.\r\n\r\nBut some situations are more special and productive than others. Here are my two secret thinking devices...\r\n\r\n1. A small and characterful wire fox terrier called Eddie.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8091\" title=\"eddie\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/eddie-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHard as I find it to believe, Eddie just turned eleven. He\'s listened to me chuntering on for ten or so books since he turned up. He\'s part of my career, a big and important part (and gets a bit of a nod for that in next year\'s book). My usual routine is to write from eight or so till 10.30, reading the previous day\'s work and kicking off the first part of the next scene. Then I take him up the road for a walk and think about what comes next. It\'s not the same without him if he can\'t make it for some reason. No, I don\'t know why and if he does he\'s not telling.\r\n\r\n2. A mowing machine.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8093\" title=\"deere\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/deere-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'ve always thought about books while doing the grass for some reason. These days we have a lot of lawn which demands one of these (in this case my new John Deere X540, which replaces a trusty JD model that did seven years\' sterling service -- best garden machinery in the world in my book).\r\n\r\nSeated on this thing whizzing over the turf I will often muse on the WIP, wondering about what\'s gone before, testing ideas over what comes next. Then when the job\'s done go straight back to the computer and get down some notes.\r\n\r\nWhy do distractions like dogs and mowing machines work? I\'m no psychologist but I suspect it\'s partly because they <em>are </em>distractions. All too often we spend our heads banging against the emptiness of a blank page, praying for something to fill it. Only when we walk away from that frustrating abyss does another part of the imagination begin to kick in and try to fill the space from somewhere else in our subconscious.\r\n\r\nThose are my little secrets anyway. If any of you wish to get yours off your chest feel free to do so in the comments below.','My secret writing devices revealed','','inherit','open','open','','8090-revision-11','','','2011-04-14 15:20:34','2011-04-14 14:20:34','',8090,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8090-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8104,1,'2011-04-15 08:16:17','2011-04-15 07:16:17','I got an unexpected email this morning.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\r\n\r\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\r\n\r\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\r\n\r\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\r\n\r\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\r\n\r\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\r\n\r\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\r\n\r\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to warn you if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to look after my security you need to prove you can look after your own first.','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','publish','open','open','','the-wordpress-com-hack-is-bigger-than-you-may-think','','','2011-04-15 18:09:01','2011-04-15 17:09:01','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8104',0,'post','',3),(8105,1,'2011-04-15 08:01:20','2011-04-15 07:01:20','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08-00-49','','','2011-04-15 08:01:20','2011-04-15 07:01:20','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8106,1,'2011-04-15 08:12:06','2011-04-15 07:12:06','I got an unexpected email this morning.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\n\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\n\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\n\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\n\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\n\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\n\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\n\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to make sure if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to l','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','inherit','open','open','','8104-revision','','','2011-04-15 08:12:06','2011-04-15 07:12:06','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8104-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8107,1,'2011-04-15 08:13:24','2011-04-15 07:13:24','I got an unexpected email this morning.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\n\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\n\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\n\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\n\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\n\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\n\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\n\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to make sure if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to look after my security you need to prove you can look after your own first.','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','inherit','open','open','','8104-revision-2','','','2011-04-15 08:13:24','2011-04-15 07:13:24','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8104-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8108,1,'2011-04-15 08:13:30','2011-04-15 07:13:30','I got an unexpected email this morning.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\r\n\r\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\r\n\r\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\r\n\r\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\r\n\r\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\r\n\r\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\r\n\r\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\r\n\r\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to make sure if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to look after my security you need to prove you can look after your own first.','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','inherit','open','open','','8104-revision-3','','','2011-04-15 08:13:30','2011-04-15 07:13:30','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8104-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8109,1,'2011-04-15 08:17:23','2011-04-15 07:17:23','I got an unexpected email this morning.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\n\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\n\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\n\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\n\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\n\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\n\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\n\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to make sure if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to look after my security you need to prove you can look after your own first.','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','inherit','open','open','','8104-autosave','','','2011-04-15 08:17:23','2011-04-15 07:17:23','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8104-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8110,1,'2011-04-15 14:56:23','2011-04-15 13:56:23','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"OmniOutliner\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/\">OmniOutliner</a>, or something of its ilk.\r\n\r\nCan you do your brainstorming in something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\r\n\r\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\r\n\r\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nExport it as OPML.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\r\n\r\nThen create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll get this.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking about exporting scene titles as far as I understand it (though I could be mistaken).\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of OPML programs around for Macs, Windows and Linux so this is another way of feeding things into Scrivener from other kinds of computers too if that\'s what you’re looking for.\r\n\r\nPersonally I find it easier to structure directly in Scrivener itself. That will save you time and messing around with export files. So my advice would be: go this route only if you\'re the type who has to outline in something else.\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=4bef4020-05a0-41a3-a582-f3c7a6d415f5\" alt=\"\" /></div>','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','publish','open','open','','scrivener-for-outliner-junkies','','','2011-04-15 09:08:31','2011-04-15 08:08:31','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8110',0,'post','',3),(8111,1,'2011-04-15 09:00:16','2011-04-15 08:00:16','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08-47-35','','','2011-04-15 09:00:16','2011-04-15 08:00:16','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8112,1,'2011-04-15 09:01:17','2011-04-15 08:01:17','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08-47-56','','','2011-04-15 09:01:17','2011-04-15 08:01:17','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8113,1,'2011-04-15 09:02:23','2011-04-15 08:02:23','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.50.05','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08-50-05','','','2011-04-15 09:02:23','2011-04-15 08:02:23','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.50.05.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8114,1,'2011-04-15 09:04:04','2011-04-15 08:04:04','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09-03-30','','','2011-04-15 09:04:04','2011-04-15 08:04:04','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8115,1,'2011-04-15 09:05:27','2011-04-15 08:05:27','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as OmniOutliner, or something of its ilk.\n\nCan you do your brainstorming and something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\n\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\n\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\n\nExport it as OPML.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\n\nThe create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file. You\'ll get this.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\n\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','inherit','open','open','','8110-revision','','','2011-04-15 09:05:27','2011-04-15 08:05:27','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8110-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8116,1,'2011-04-15 09:06:24','2011-04-15 08:06:24','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as OmniOutliner, or something of its ilk.\r\n\r\nCan you do your brainstorming and something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\r\n\r\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\r\n\r\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nExport it as OPML.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\r\n\r\nThe create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file. You\'ll get this.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking about exporting scene titles as far as I understand it (though I could be mistaken).\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of OPML programs around for Macs, Windows and Linux so this is another way of feeding things into Scrivener from other kinds of computers too if that\'s what you’re looking for.','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','inherit','open','open','','8110-revision-2','','','2011-04-15 09:06:24','2011-04-15 08:06:24','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8110-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8117,1,'2011-04-15 09:08:39','2011-04-15 08:08:39','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"OmniOutliner\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/\">OmniOutliner</a>, or something of its ilk.\r\n\r\nCan you do your brainstorming in something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\r\n\r\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\r\n\r\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nExport it as OPML.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\r\n\r\nThen create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll get this.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking about exporting scene titles as far as I understand it (though I could be mistaken).\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of OPML programs around for Macs, Windows and Linux so this is another way of feeding things into Scrivener from other kinds of computers too if that\'s what you’re looking for.\r\n\r\nPersonally I find it easier to structure directly in Scrivener itself. That will save you time and messing around with export files. So my advice would be: go this route only if you\'re the type who has to outline in something else.\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=4bef4020-05a0-41a3-a582-f3c7a6d415f5\" alt=\"\" /></div>','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','inherit','open','open','','8110-autosave','','','2011-04-15 09:08:39','2011-04-15 08:08:39','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8110-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8118,1,'2011-04-15 09:07:18','2011-04-15 08:07:18','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as OmniOutliner, or something of its ilk.\r\n\r\nCan you do your brainstorming and something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\r\n\r\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\r\n\r\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nExport it as OPML.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\r\n\r\nThe create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file. You\'ll get this.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking about exporting scene titles as far as I understand it (though I could be mistaken).\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of OPML programs around for Macs, Windows and Linux so this is another way of feeding things into Scrivener from other kinds of computers too if that\'s what you’re looking for.\r\n\r\nPersonally I find it easier to structure directly in Scrivener itself. That will save you time and messing around with export files. So my advice would be: go this route only if you\'re the type who has to outline in something else.','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','inherit','open','open','','8110-revision-3','','','2011-04-15 09:07:18','2011-04-15 08:07:18','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8110-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8119,1,'2011-04-15 09:07:50','2011-04-15 08:07:50','I\'m happy outlining in Scrivener, as much as I outline. But some people like to outline big time. For them, perhaps, Scrivener is not enough. They need a dedicated outliner, such as OmniOutliner, or something of its ilk.\r\n\r\nCan you do your brainstorming in something else then bring the results into Scrivener with little pain?\r\n\r\nOh yes. Provided your outlining program can export into the common outline file format OPML (which most, including OmniOutliner, can).\r\n\r\nHere\'s <em>A Study in Scarlet </em>in OmniOutliner. This is a sample file from the developers themselves and includes the entire book (which messes up the export a little -- fiddle with where you put things to get the best results.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8111\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.35\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.35-640x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"632\" /></a>\r\n\r\nExport it as OPML.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8112\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.47.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.47.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"286\" />\r\n\r\nThe create a new Scrivener document and simply import the OPML file. You\'ll get this.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8114\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.03.30\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.03.30-640x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"505\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNote that the body text is used for the title of the scene (which in the case of this sample document is the entire chapter of the book). You will want to do something different so play with the options. I can\'t see a way to fill in other parts of the Scrivener document such as the synopsis through OPML. You\'re basically talking about exporting scene titles as far as I understand it (though I could be mistaken).\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of OPML programs around for Macs, Windows and Linux so this is another way of feeding things into Scrivener from other kinds of computers too if that\'s what you’re looking for.\r\n\r\nPersonally I find it easier to structure directly in Scrivener itself. That will save you time and messing around with export files. So my advice would be: go this route only if you\'re the type who has to outline in something else.','Scrivener for outliner junkies','','inherit','open','open','','8110-revision-4','','','2011-04-15 09:07:50','2011-04-15 08:07:50','',8110,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8110-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8120,1,'2011-04-15 10:29:27','2011-04-15 09:29:27','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with all that?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot, the source for <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a>, they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything. But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card and email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus or trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','publish','open','open','','proof-how-the-book-thieves-are-getting-scammed','','','2011-04-15 11:05:19','2011-04-15 10:05:19','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8120',0,'post','',2),(8121,1,'2011-04-15 10:00:03','2011-04-15 09:00:03','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09-58-54','','','2011-04-15 10:00:03','2011-04-15 09:00:03','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8122,1,'2011-04-15 09:58:59','2011-04-15 08:58:59','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\n\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic.','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision','','','2011-04-15 09:58:59','2011-04-15 08:58:59','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8123,1,'2011-04-15 10:04:35','2011-04-15 09:04:35','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10-02-00','','','2011-04-15 10:04:35','2011-04-15 09:04:35','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8124,1,'2011-04-15 10:04:56','2011-04-15 09:04:56','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\n\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-2','','','2011-04-15 10:04:56','2011-04-15 09:04:56','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8125,1,'2011-04-15 10:06:51','2011-04-15 09:06:51','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\n\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-3','','','2011-04-15 10:06:51','2011-04-15 09:06:51','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8126,1,'2011-04-15 10:09:16','2011-04-15 09:09:16','','Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10-07-56','','','2011-04-15 10:09:16','2011-04-15 09:09:16','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8127,1,'2011-04-15 10:09:39','2011-04-15 09:09:39','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\n\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-4','','','2011-04-15 10:09:39','2011-04-15 09:09:39','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8130,1,'2011-04-15 10:12:08','2011-04-15 09:12:08','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\n\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\n\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their hea','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-7','','','2011-04-15 10:12:08','2011-04-15 09:12:08','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8128,1,'2011-04-15 10:10:10','2011-04-15 09:10:10','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to rip off a few books today, please don\'t let this put you off.','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-5','','','2011-04-15 10:10:10','2011-04-15 09:10:10','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8129,1,'2011-04-15 10:10:21','2011-04-15 09:10:21','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me introduce you to a fine example of somewhere that seeks to rip off those out there who wish to rip off those of us who provide the wares they steal and crack.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to rip off a few books today, please don\'t let this put you off.','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-6','','','2011-04-15 10:10:21','2011-04-15 09:10:21','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8131,1,'2011-04-15 10:12:27','2011-04-15 09:12:27','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.','How the scammers are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-8','','','2011-04-15 10:12:27','2011-04-15 09:12:27','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8132,1,'2011-04-15 10:12:50','2011-04-15 09:12:50','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-9','','','2011-04-15 10:12:50','2011-04-15 09:12:50','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8133,1,'2011-04-15 10:13:00','2011-04-15 09:13:00','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books.\r\n\r\nIt\'s amazing how many suckers fall for this trick. Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-10','','','2011-04-15 10:13:00','2011-04-15 09:13:00','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8134,1,'2011-04-15 10:14:15','2011-04-15 09:14:15','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-11','','','2011-04-15 10:14:15','2011-04-15 09:14:15','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8135,1,'2011-04-15 10:16:15','2011-04-15 09:16:15','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\n\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems, as far as I can work out, from the Czech Republic. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha. Hope your credit card company understands if you hand your plastic over to these people.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\n\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.\n\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-12','','','2011-04-15 10:16:15','2011-04-15 09:16:15','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8136,1,'2011-04-15 10:22:58','2011-04-15 09:22:58','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\n\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\n\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me). If the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game.\n\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile the business of ripping off the creative world really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-13','','','2011-04-15 10:22:58','2011-04-15 09:22:58','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8137,1,'2011-04-15 10:24:14','2011-04-15 09:24:14','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\n\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\n\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\n\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someo\n\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-14','','','2011-04-15 10:24:14','2011-04-15 09:24:14','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(8138,1,'2011-04-15 10:24:29','2011-04-15 09:24:29','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent Web of Trust web site which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-15','','','2011-04-15 10:24:29','2011-04-15 09:24:29','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(8139,1,'2011-04-15 10:25:03','2011-04-15 09:25:03','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-16','','','2011-04-15 10:25:03','2011-04-15 09:25:03','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(8140,1,'2011-04-15 10:25:12','2011-04-15 09:25:12','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will, in return, feed you \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else in return, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-17','','','2011-04-15 10:25:12','2011-04-15 09:25:12','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(8141,1,'2011-04-15 10:25:56','2011-04-15 09:25:56','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-18','','','2011-04-15 10:25:56','2011-04-15 09:25:56','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(8142,1,'2011-04-15 10:26:04','2011-04-15 09:26:04','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com and stems. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-19','','','2011-04-15 10:26:04','2011-04-15 09:26:04','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(8143,1,'2011-04-15 10:26:39','2011-04-15 09:26:39','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-20','','','2011-04-15 10:26:39','2011-04-15 09:26:39','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(8144,1,'2011-04-15 10:26:48','2011-04-15 09:26:48','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with it?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a> they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything? But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card/email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus/trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-21','','','2011-04-15 10:26:48','2011-04-15 09:26:48','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(8145,1,'2011-04-15 10:28:28','2011-04-15 09:28:28','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\n\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with all that?\n\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\n\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot, the source for <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a>, they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything. But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card and email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus or trojan onto your PC.\n\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\n\nHa, ha.\n\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\n\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\n\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\n\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-22','','','2011-04-15 10:28:28','2011-04-15 09:28:28','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(8146,1,'2011-04-15 10:29:27','2011-04-15 09:29:27','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with all that?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot, the source for <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a>, they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything. But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card and email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus or trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-23','','','2011-04-15 10:29:27','2011-04-15 09:29:27','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(8147,1,'2011-04-15 10:33:49','2011-04-15 09:33:49','Morality aside, one argument for not indulging in book theft is purely personal: you\'re liable to get ripped off. A lot. Book thieves want you to sign up for \'subscriptions\'. In other words to hand over your personal credit card supposedly in return for access to servers that will feed you limitless \'free\' stolen software, music, movie and books. What the mugs who fall for this scam don\'t appreciate is they\'re likely to get a lot else too, things they don\'t want, from credit card fraud to ID theft.\r\n\r\nSurprised? Why? Think about it. These are people trading in stolen goods. And you\'re going to give them your credit card and personal information? What do you think they\'re going to do with all that?\r\n\r\nAnd here\'s another truth. They may not even have the contraband they\'re promising you in the first place. Let me give you an actual example.\r\n\r\nIt\'s called Zedload.com. Judging from this screenshot, the source for <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/david-hewson-nic-costa-series-4-books-pdf-crack-serial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see for yourself here</a>, they have a pretty full portfolio of my work and lots and lots of other stuff too.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8121\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 09.58.54\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-09.58.54-640x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"281\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBut do they? Try typing anything into Zedload and you\'ll find they promise they have it. And I mean anything. But if you try to download \'it\' they\'ll either scam your card and email details, sell you some other stuff,  or drop a virus or trojan onto your PC.\r\n\r\nThey even seem to have a sense of dry humour about their dishonesty. <a href=\"http://www.zedload.com/search.php?q=yeah+right+like+this+file+really+exists%2C+it+does%3F+Oh+okay+then+I%27ll+download+it...&amp;log=1&amp;x=14&amp;y=17\" target=\"_blank\">How about this? </a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8123\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.02.00\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.02.00-640x367.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"364\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHa, ha.\r\n\r\nIt is, by the way, very easy to nail down the fact they\'re con artists. Just take a look on the excellent <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Web of Trust web site</a> which keeps an eye on some of the nasties out there. <a href=\"http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/zedload.com\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the entry for the charmless criminals of Zedload</a>. Among the comments...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8126\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 10.07.56\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-10.07.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"343\" />\r\n\r\nThese are the people you deal with when you go looking for contraband books, movies, music and software on the web. Lying, thieving criminals. Zedload are hiding in the Czech Republic which probably means they\'re tied up to some Eastern European crime syndicate (if not, Zedload, please sue me, and for the lying, thieving criminal bit above, because that is, most definitely, aimed at you too).\r\n\r\nIf the credit card companies had their heads screwed on they\'d refuse to reimburse anyone dumb enough, and dishonest enough, to take part in this squalid little game. And, of course, they\'d stop crooks like Zedload using them to collect payment in the first place, which they usually will but only when someone finally complains. After which the whole scam resurfaces under another name, of course.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re minded to risk this to get a £3 or £4 book for free don\'t let me stop you. Perhaps the more people who fall victim to these scammers the sooner others will realise how vile this grimy trade really is.','Proof: how the book thieves are getting scammed','','inherit','open','open','','8120-revision-24','','','2011-04-15 10:33:49','2011-04-15 09:33:49','',8120,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8120-revision-24/',0,'revision','',0),(8148,1,'2011-04-15 08:16:17','2011-04-15 07:16:17','I got an unexpected email this morning.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8105\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-15 at 08.00.49\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-15-at-08.00.49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"414\" />Yesterday Wordpress.com was hacked to the \'root\' level, which means the intruders potentially had access to everything there. If you\'re a Wordpress.com user -- the hosted Wordpress, not the individual accounts on other hosts -- you should be changing your passwords now because they are no longer secure.\r\n\r\nBut Vaultpress? This is a new service for Wordpress.org users on other hosts. I put it on my site a couple of months ago. It costs $15 a month and backs up your WP install during the day. I\'ve got mixed feelings about it to be honest. If you could restore a WP install with a single click that would be fine. But you can\'t. If things go wrong you just get the latest database backup and have to go through a painful manual reinstall process. To be honest you can do pretty much the same thing yourself through a free WP plugin.\r\n\r\nBut I like WP and I thought taking out a Vaultpress subscription was one way of paying something for important software I currently get for free.\r\n\r\nFor Vaultpress to work it needs access to the back end of your site system. In my case that means FTP and SSH access. <em>The hack of Wordpress also hacked Vaultpress since it sits on the same system.</em>\r\n\r\nWhat that means is they didn\'t just hack Wordpress. In theory they hacked the sites of everyone using Vaultpress too. With that ftp and SSH login the hackers could read, upload and delete files anywhere on your system. If you gave Vaultpress your database login too they could do other damage. In the worst instance if you used your site admin account to set up Vaultpress\'s access the hackers could now have complete control of your C Panel and do anything you like.\r\n\r\nSo you need to change the passwords on your site and then update them in Vaultpress too. Which is a royal pain.\r\n\r\nIn my case there\'s going to be a third action too: cancel Vaultpress. It didn\'t seem great value at $15 a month, which will buy you premium hosting itself. With the best will in the world --  and I feel a lot of goodwill towards the Wordpress people -- what\'s the point in paying for a \'protection\' service that not only gets hacked but provides a back door into its customers\' external sites too?\r\n\r\nThe really odd thing is for $25 a month Vaultpress offers a \'premium\' product which <a href=\"http://blog.vaultpress.com/2010/11/26/new-vaultpress-security-scanning/\" target=\"_blank\">promises advanced security checks</a> to make sure if anyone is tampering with your Wordpress site. Sorry folks. But if you want to look after my security you need to prove you can look after your own first.','The Wordpress.com hack is bigger than you may think','','inherit','open','open','','8104-revision-4','','','2011-04-15 08:16:17','2011-04-15 07:16:17','',8104,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8104-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8149,1,'2011-04-16 08:28:40','2011-04-16 07:28:40','','David Hewson\'s novel template for Scrivener','','inherit','open','open','','david-hewsons-template','','','2011-04-16 08:28:40','2011-04-16 07:28:40','',6291,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/David-Hewsons-template.zip',0,'attachment','application/zip',0),(8150,1,'2011-01-27 22:46:52','2011-01-27 22:46:52','Right - this is my last word on Scrivener 2 today. I am <em>so</em> hacked off with this company. Word 2010 is great, Windows 7 is fine. I have nice laptops. I\'m a happy little author and the old MacBook Pro is sitting gathering dust.\n\nAnd then they release Scrivener 2. Rats. It has devoured most of today and I am absolutely gobsmacked by how wonderful it is (and how the hell I can avoid writing the next book in it, even though there\'s 18 megs of research sitting in OneNote which does <em>not</em> run on the Mac).\n\nOh well my problem. Here, for those of you who\'ve downloaded Scrivener 2, even for a trial, is a template for it reflecting my own working habits.\n\n<!--more-->It includes an example of how to use the Collections feature (which this morning I found utterly baffling) for monitoring different points of view and story elements set in different eras.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-16-49.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6115\" title=\"Collections\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-16-49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"167\" /></a>\n\nMy own invention, the <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2009/09/09/the-best-scrivener-tip-ever-maybe/\" target=\"_blank\">unplaced scenes folder</a>, of which I am mighty proud.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-17-03.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6116\" title=\"Unplaced scenes\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-17-03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"45\" /></a>\n\nSome custom folder for to-do, themes, characters and settings, some of which come with the basic novel template but have been slightly amended.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-17-13.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6117\" title=\"Custom folders\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-03-at-18-17-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\nPlease don\'t think any of this is rocket science. It took about twenty minutes to create all this. You can do it to match your own working methods, honest. Or just tinker with what I\'ve done here.\n\nPlease note though... tech support is something for the Scrivener forum. I ain\'t doing it. I\'m too busy working out what to do with all that OneNote research for one thing.\n\nYou\'ll find the template for download below. There are brief instructions inside some of the entries. Read and play and I\'m sure you\'ll get the idea.\n\nIt works in Scrivener 2.0 only -- nothing earlier, and not the Windows beta. It\'s available here as an ordinary Scrivener file you can open. If you want to save it as a template go to File, Save Template with it open. Have fun!\n\n<a href=\"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/105354/David%20Hewson%27s%20template.zip\" target=\"_blank\">David Hewson\'s Novel Template for Scrivener 2.0</a>','A novel template for Scrivener -- my way','','inherit','open','open','','6291-revision','','','2011-01-27 22:46:52','2011-01-27 22:46:52','',6291,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/6291-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8151,1,'2011-04-16 12:58:51','2011-04-16 11:58:51','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Isn\'t this the business of publishers, not authors?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the others still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\nBut I\'ll tell you one way in which authors can get round pretty much all the problems above, money, distribution, channel conflicts, publicity, promotion.\r\n\r\nIt\'s simple really: you just need a damned good publisher.','Is the self pub ebook boom sustainable?','','publish','open','open','','is-the-self-pub-ebook-book-sustainable','','','2011-04-16 12:59:10','2011-04-16 11:59:10','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8151',0,'post','',13),(8152,1,'2011-04-16 12:24:06','2011-04-16 11:24:06','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\n\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\n\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\n\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\n\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensib','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision','','','2011-04-16 12:24:06','2011-04-16 11:24:06','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8153,1,'2011-04-16 12:24:18','2011-04-16 11:24:18','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-2','','','2011-04-16 12:24:18','2011-04-16 11:24:18','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8154,1,'2011-04-16 12:51:40','2011-04-16 11:51:40','','Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12-50-43','','','2011-04-16 12:51:40','2011-04-16 11:51:40','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(8155,1,'2011-04-16 12:50:54','2011-04-16 11:50:54','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\n\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\n\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\n\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\n\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\n\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media seems to be the answer, and the flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway).\n\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Aren\'t we supposed to be writing instead?\n\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\n\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\n\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site.','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-3','','','2011-04-16 12:50:54','2011-04-16 11:50:54','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8156,1,'2011-04-16 12:52:51','2011-04-16 11:52:51','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media seems to be the answer, and the flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway).\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Aren\'t we supposed to be writing instead?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-4','','','2011-04-16 12:52:51','2011-04-16 11:52:51','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8157,1,'2011-04-16 12:53:52','2011-04-16 11:53:52','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media seems to be the answer, and the flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway).\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Aren\'t we supposed to be writing instead?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-5','','','2011-04-16 12:53:52','2011-04-16 11:53:52','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8158,1,'2011-04-16 12:55:14','2011-04-16 11:55:14','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Aren\'t we supposed to be writing instead?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-6','','','2011-04-16 12:55:14','2011-04-16 11:55:14','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8159,1,'2011-04-16 12:55:22','2011-04-16 11:55:22','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Aren\'t we supposed to be writing instead?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-7','','','2011-04-16 12:55:22','2011-04-16 11:55:22','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8160,1,'2011-04-16 12:56:11','2011-04-16 11:56:11','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Isn\'t this the business of publishers, not authors?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-8','','','2011-04-16 12:56:11','2011-04-16 11:56:11','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8161,1,'2011-04-16 12:56:18','2011-04-16 11:56:18','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Isn\'t this the business of publishers, not authors?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the other still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-9','','','2011-04-16 12:56:18','2011-04-16 11:56:18','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8162,1,'2011-04-16 12:58:51','2011-04-16 11:58:51','There was an interesting exchange on Twitter this morning. I retweeted a tweet from a talk by <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/MarshallBuckley\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Buckley</a> who was listening a talk by the writer <a href=\"http://nicolamorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Morgan</a>. It read,  \'self pub mostly selling to other unpublished writers. That\'s great but unsustainable.\'\r\n\r\nSeemed an interesting comment. Certainly got some interesting responses. So is the current level of self pubbing unsustainable? Honest answer: no one knows. But there are questions to be asked. Here are some...\r\n\r\n<strong>What happens when the material runs out. </strong>Let\'s be honest. A lot of the stuff going up there right now is old material. Backlist (some of mine there -- why wouldn\'t I?) Rejected manuscripts. Hastily-finished manuscripts seeking a new market. Nothing wrong with topping and tailing some old stuff and getting it into the system.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn\'t take long. What happens when the cupboard is bare and you have to write everything from scratch? Will you still manage to summon up the energy a year from now if the money\'s still just a trickle and the chances of a mainstream publishing contract seem no nearer?\r\n\r\n<strong>Amanda Hocking. </strong>Is a great media story and totally atypical. What happened to Ms Hocking is unlikely to happen to any but a handful of people. Best to believe one of them will not be you. Oh, and Ms Hocking just signed a conventional pub deal too, which is very sensible of her in my view. Again... why wouldn\'t you?\r\n\r\n<strong>Market saturation</strong>. There\'s a real flood of material at the moment. How do you differentiate yourself? How you make yourself known? Social media is seen to be the answer, with a flood of activity on Twitter and Facebook. But let\'s be honest: most social media only reaches a relatively small number of people, unless you\'re a big name already (and if you are then you\'re probably not self-pubbing -- yet anyway). It also takes enormous amounts of time and, frankly, isn\'t half as much fun as writing.\r\n\r\n<strong>Standards and distributors. </strong>Smashwords, Kindle, iBooks, Google Books, Kobo, Nook... Yes, you can lay off your work by going to an aggregator but that doesn\'t solve all the problems. Is it worth the hassle? Does the public really care about all these different ways of buying a book? My prediction: it\'s Kindle\'s day frankly. Amazon have done their job so smartly in having their own hardware and apps for others devices. Though if Apple kick them off the iPad... sheesh. Is this the kind of turf war authors should really be involved in? Isn\'t this the business of publishers, not authors?\r\n\r\n<strong>Visibility. </strong>One of the ways authors get known is by appearing in public. Book stores are obviously out as are libraries. Which leaves literary events. Are self-pubbed writers going to get seats on the platform at festivals? One day I guess. But it\'s a tough call. Self-pubbers may think their exclusion is down to snobbery. And maybe sometimes it is. But I\'ve worked alongside festival organisers and I know how very difficult their job is. Imagine someone saying to them: let\'s bring in self-pubbed authors. How on earth do you pick the ones allowed through the gate? And whoever you do pick won\'t the others still be hacked off. I wouldn\'t want to be the festival organiser dealing with that particular dilemma.\r\n\r\n<strong>MP3.com. </strong>Anyone remember them? Huge during the digital music book of the late 90s. Lots of amateurs suddenly found they could upload their music, get it online, look professional, and end up with some money too. Except it petered out, as did the money. Why? The one musician I knew who used it got sick of the work involved and the lack of income and decided he\'d rather be gigging and doing other things. True, books aren\'t exactly the same. But there are similarities. Lots of work, not much income.\r\n\r\nMp3.com <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com\" target=\"_blank\">came a cropper in the dotcom crash of 2001 and got sold to Vivendi for $372 million</a>. Vivendi got nowhere with the idea and later offloaded the logo and name to Cnet which now uses it for a very orthodox music site. And look who are the big acts on there today.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mp3.com/top100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8154\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 12.50.43\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-12.50.43-640x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"818\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAh, right. The big names of yesterday.\r\n\r\nPerhaps mp3.com says nothing about the ebook self-pub boom. I really don\'t know. Is it sustainable? We\'ll see.\r\n\r\nBut I\'ll tell you one way in which authors can get round pretty much all the problems above, money, distribution, channel conflicts, publicity, promotion.\r\n\r\nIt\'s simple really: you just need a damned good publisher.','Is the self pub ebook book sustainable?','','inherit','open','open','','8151-revision-10','','','2011-04-16 12:58:51','2011-04-16 11:58:51','',8151,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8151-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8163,1,'2011-04-16 14:55:41','2011-04-16 13:55:41','You may find this hard to believe but there are some things in life about which I have prejudices. I look at them and think, what the....?\r\n\r\nFox-hunting. Celebrity shows. Motor racing. Oh, and mind mapping.\r\n\r\nI\'m old enough in this game to have seen mind mapping rise from its infancy to its odd peak of cultishness today. When it first came out programs that did whatever mind mapping does cost a fortune. Now at least you can try the things out for next to nothing. But why?\r\n\r\nYou draw a diagram. You link up the balloons. You type some things in. Then you stare at it and go.... yes!\r\n\r\nWell no, actually. Take the one below, from Wikipedia...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8164\" title=\"MindMapGuidlines\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines-640x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIs it me?\r\n\r\nI ask this question because I just saw a video demonstrating how a very simple mind map of a novel could be transferred into Scrivener where it turns up as files to be worked on as a story and characters. <a title=\"Scrivener for outliner junkies\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/scrivener-for-outliner-junkies/\">Much as I explained here yesterday</a>.\r\n\r\nAs I said yesterday I don\'t do outlining outside Scrivener because I don\'t feel I need to. But to faff around with balloons and lines and.... No, enough. I\'m sure the app concerned has got lots of fans and does what it does very well. The video seems to be private on Youtube so I can\'t pass it on. But all I could think while I was watching it was: hang on, I could have <em>typed</em> all this in half the time.\r\n\r\nI do believe I think visually. I work with images, photos, paintings in my head all the time. But -- and I\'m sure this is my fault and mine entirely -- mind mapping I do not and will never get. Sorry...','Mind mapping: nope, I\'ll never get it','','publish','open','open','','mind-mapping-nope-ill-never-get-it','','','2011-04-16 14:55:41','2011-04-16 13:55:41','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8163',0,'post','',5),(8164,1,'2011-04-16 14:50:28','2011-04-16 13:50:28','','MindMapGuidlines','','inherit','open','open','','mindmapguidlines','','','2011-04-16 14:50:28','2011-04-16 13:50:28','',8163,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8165,1,'2011-04-16 14:53:08','2011-04-16 13:53:08','You may find this hard to believe but there are some things in life about which I have prejudices. I look at them and think, what the....?\n\nFox-hunting. Celebrity shows. Motor racing. Oh, and mind mapping.\n\nI\'m old enough in this game to have seen mind mapping rise from its infancy to its odd peak of cultishness today. When it first came out programs that did whatever mind mapping does cost a fortune. Now at least you can try the things out for next to nothing. But why?\n\nYou draw a diagram. You link up the balloons. You type some things in. Then you stare at it and go.... yes!\n\nWell no, actually. Take the one below, from Wikipedia...\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8164\" title=\"MindMapGuidlines\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines-640x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\n\nIs it me?\n\nI ask this question because I just saw a video demonstrating how a very simple mind map of a novel could be transferred into Scrivener where it turns up as files to be worked on as a story and characters. <a title=\"Scrivener for outliner junkies\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/scrivener-for-outliner-junkies/\">Much as I explained here yesterday</a>.\n\nAs I said yesterday I don\'t do outlining outside Scrivener because I don\'t feel I need to. But to faff around with balloons and lines and.... No, enough. I\'m sure the app concerned has got lots of fans and does what it does very well. But all I could think while I was watching the video was: I could have typed all this in half the time.\n\nI do believe I think visually. I','Mind mapping: nope, I\'ll never get it','','inherit','open','open','','8163-revision','','','2011-04-16 14:53:08','2011-04-16 13:53:08','',8163,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8163-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8166,1,'2011-04-16 14:53:42','2011-04-16 13:53:42','You may find this hard to believe but there are some things in life about which I have prejudices. I look at them and think, what the....?\r\n\r\nFox-hunting. Celebrity shows. Motor racing. Oh, and mind mapping.\r\n\r\nI\'m old enough in this game to have seen mind mapping rise from its infancy to its odd peak of cultishness today. When it first came out programs that did whatever mind mapping does cost a fortune. Now at least you can try the things out for next to nothing. But why?\r\n\r\nYou draw a diagram. You link up the balloons. You type some things in. Then you stare at it and go.... yes!\r\n\r\nWell no, actually. Take the one below, from Wikipedia...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8164\" title=\"MindMapGuidlines\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines-640x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIs it me?\r\n\r\nI ask this question because I just saw a video demonstrating how a very simple mind map of a novel could be transferred into Scrivener where it turns up as files to be worked on as a story and characters. <a title=\"Scrivener for outliner junkies\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/scrivener-for-outliner-junkies/\">Much as I explained here yesterday</a>.\r\n\r\nAs I said yesterday I don\'t do outlining outside Scrivener because I don\'t feel I need to. But to faff around with balloons and lines and.... No, enough. I\'m sure the app concerned has got lots of fans and does what it does very well. But all I could think while I was watching the video was: I could have typed all this in half the time.\r\n\r\nI do believe I think visually. I work with images, photos, paintings in my head all the time. But -- and I\'m sure this is my fault and mine entirely -- mind mapping I do not and will never get. Sorry...','Mind mapping: nope, I\'ll never get it','','inherit','open','open','','8163-revision-2','','','2011-04-16 14:53:42','2011-04-16 13:53:42','',8163,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8163-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8167,1,'2011-04-16 14:53:50','2011-04-16 13:53:50','You may find this hard to believe but there are some things in life about which I have prejudices. I look at them and think, what the....?\r\n\r\nFox-hunting. Celebrity shows. Motor racing. Oh, and mind mapping.\r\n\r\nI\'m old enough in this game to have seen mind mapping rise from its infancy to its odd peak of cultishness today. When it first came out programs that did whatever mind mapping does cost a fortune. Now at least you can try the things out for next to nothing. But why?\r\n\r\nYou draw a diagram. You link up the balloons. You type some things in. Then you stare at it and go.... yes!\r\n\r\nWell no, actually. Take the one below, from Wikipedia...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8164\" title=\"MindMapGuidlines\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MindMapGuidlines-640x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIs it me?\r\n\r\nI ask this question because I just saw a video demonstrating how a very simple mind map of a novel could be transferred into Scrivener where it turns up as files to be worked on as a story and characters. <a title=\"Scrivener for outliner junkies\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/scrivener-for-outliner-junkies/\">Much as I explained here yesterday</a>.\r\n\r\nAs I said yesterday I don\'t do outlining outside Scrivener because I don\'t feel I need to. But to faff around with balloons and lines and.... No, enough. I\'m sure the app concerned has got lots of fans and does what it does very well. But all I could think while I was watching the video was: I could have typed all this in half the time.\r\n\r\nI do believe I think visually. I work with images, photos, paintings in my head all the time. But -- and I\'m sure this is my fault and mine entirely -- mind mapping I do not and will never get. Sorry...','Mind mapping: nope, I\'ll never get it','','inherit','open','open','','8163-revision-3','','','2011-04-16 14:53:50','2011-04-16 13:53:50','',8163,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8163-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8168,1,'2011-04-18 09:36:33','2011-04-18 08:36:33','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finishing it. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c06f00ce-2c35-41fe-b6c4-3484e739b04b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','publish','open','open','','the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-is-a-scary-sight','','','2011-04-18 09:36:33','2011-04-18 08:36:33','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8168',0,'post','',4),(8169,1,'2011-04-18 09:33:44','2011-04-18 08:33:44','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\n\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finished. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\n<ul>\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work, perhaps unnecessary, but something that will be done if required).</li>\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\n</ul>\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\n\nAfter that I predict','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision','','','2011-04-18 09:33:44','2011-04-18 08:33:44','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8170,1,'2011-04-18 09:34:40','2011-04-18 08:34:40','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finished. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work, perhaps unnecessary, but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-2','','','2011-04-18 09:34:40','2011-04-18 08:34:40','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8171,1,'2011-04-18 09:35:00','2011-04-18 08:35:00','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finished. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work, perhaps unnecessary, but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-3','','','2011-04-18 09:35:00','2011-04-18 08:35:00','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8174,1,'2011-04-18 09:35:50','2011-04-18 08:35:50','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finishing it. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-6','','','2011-04-18 09:35:50','2011-04-18 08:35:50','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8172,1,'2011-04-18 09:35:29','2011-04-18 08:35:29','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finishing it. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work, perhaps unnecessary, but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-4','','','2011-04-18 09:35:29','2011-04-18 08:35:29','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8173,1,'2011-04-18 09:35:30','2011-04-18 08:35:30','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finishing it. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work, perhaps unnecessary, but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-5','','','2011-04-18 09:35:30','2011-04-18 08:35:30','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8175,1,'2011-04-18 09:35:51','2011-04-18 08:35:51','Today the work in progress -- my main book for 2013 if everything goes to plan -- will break through the 80,000-word mark. I suspect the finished manuscript will come in between 110,000 and 120,000 words. This means we are entering the endgame, approaching the third act, en route for the denouement.\r\n\r\nHappy times? Well, yes. The best part of writing any book is finishing it. But this point does always fill me with trepidation on a few fronts.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Every book has several potential forks in the road. Which one do I choose? How do I know it\'s the right one without writing a few alternatives and checking (which is hard work but something that will be done if required).</li>\r\n	<li>How do I keep up my enthusiasm level once I <em>know</em> exactly where we\'re headed? Up to this point this was a voyage of discovery for me, just as I hope it will be one day for readers. Now it\'s going to become a question of opening boxes knowing what they contain. This is different. I need to make sure the process doesn\'t become mechanical.</li>\r\n	<li>How do I head to a climax without getting caught up in some rushing change of rhythm? This is a pretty measured, serious book. It will have a climax, one that\'s got some action in it. But it\'s not an action thriller. So I need to be careful to add that dynamism without throwing out the nature of the story that goes before.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThere is, of course, only one way to answer these questions: to keep on and write the thing. Happily it\'s still only April, I have plenty of time in hand, and one month today I go back to Florence for a final week to wrap up what I hope will be the last threads of the narrative.\r\n\r\nAfter that I predict some final writing and then it will be set aside for a month or more to mature before being taken out for the first revise. This is how writing works for me anyway.  And it\'s why I regard this as a job.','The light at the end of the tunnel is a scary sight','','inherit','open','open','','8168-revision-7','','','2011-04-18 09:35:51','2011-04-18 08:35:51','',8168,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8168-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8176,1,'2011-01-28 13:13:18','2011-01-28 13:13:18','You can contact me through the form here. I try to answer all mail but life is very busy at the moment. For that reason I regret I\'m unable to blurb any books right now or offer individual advice.\r\n\r\n[si-contact-form form=\'1\']','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','3236-revision','','','2011-01-28 13:13:18','2011-01-28 13:13:18','',3236,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/3236-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8178,1,'2011-04-18 09:39:04','2011-04-18 08:39:04','You can contact me through the form here.  I regret I\'m unable to blurb any books right now or offer individual responses on writing technique, software, ebook and other publishing issues and piracy. There just isn\'t time. If you want to know what I think about these things please take a look at the blog.\r\n\r\n[si-contact-form form=\'1\']','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','3236-revision-3','','','2011-04-18 09:39:04','2011-04-18 08:39:04','',3236,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/3236-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8177,1,'2011-04-18 09:38:19','2011-04-18 08:38:19','You can contact me through the form here. I try to answer all mail but life is very busy at the moment. For that reason I regret I\'m unable to blurb any books right now or offer individual responses on writing technique, software, ebook policies and piracy. There just isn\'t time. If you want to know what I think about these issues please take a look at the blog.\r\n\r\n[si-contact-form form=\'1\']','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','3236-revision-2','','','2011-04-18 09:38:19','2011-04-18 08:38:19','',3236,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/3236-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8179,1,'2011-04-18 09:40:51','2011-04-18 08:40:51','You can contact me through the form here.  I regret I\'m unable to blurb any books right now or offer individual responses on writing technique, software, ebook and other publishing issues including piracy. There just isn\'t time. If you want to know what I think about these matters please take a look at the blog.\n\n[si-contact-form form=\'1\']','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','3236-autosave','','','2011-04-18 09:40:51','2011-04-18 08:40:51','',3236,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/3236-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8180,1,'2011-04-19 17:37:13','2011-04-19 16:37:13','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\r\n\r\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel that is meaningless except to his own, handful of initiates and represents a variegated bunch of bodies such as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>, representing the \'Dollis Hill Facebook Anarchists Against the Tory Cuts Collective\'.\r\n\r\nI can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','publish','open','open','','dave-spart-the-declaration-of-human-rights-and-book-theft','','','2011-04-19 17:50:25','2011-04-19 16:50:25','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8180',0,'post','',0),(8181,1,'2011-04-19 17:26:21','2011-04-19 16:26:21','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\n\nArticle 27 (2) says...\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to think it\'s wrong to have someone steal your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\n\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a refere','The Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision','','','2011-04-19 17:26:21','2011-04-19 16:26:21','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8182,1,'2011-04-19 17:32:49','2011-04-19 16:32:49','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\n\nArticle 27 (2) says...\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to think it\'s wrong to have someone steal your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\n\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\n\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave The Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-2','','','2011-04-19 17:32:49','2011-04-19 16:32:49','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8183,1,'2011-04-19 17:33:49','2011-04-19 16:33:49','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\n\nArticle 27 (2) says...\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to think it\'s wrong to have someone steal your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\n\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\n\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-3','','','2011-04-19 17:33:49','2011-04-19 16:33:49','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8184,1,'2011-04-19 17:34:19','2011-04-19 16:34:19','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-4','','','2011-04-19 17:34:19','2011-04-19 16:34:19','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8185,1,'2011-04-19 17:34:41','2011-04-19 16:34:41','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-5','','','2011-04-19 17:34:41','2011-04-19 16:34:41','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8186,1,'2011-04-19 17:34:48','2011-04-19 16:34:48','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Can\'t help but wonder too how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-6','','','2011-04-19 17:34:48','2011-04-19 16:34:48','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8187,1,'2011-04-19 17:36:00','2011-04-19 16:36:00','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\r\n\r\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-7','','','2011-04-19 17:36:00','2011-04-19 16:36:00','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8188,1,'2011-04-19 17:36:06','2011-04-19 16:36:06','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\r\n\r\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-8','','','2011-04-19 17:36:06','2011-04-19 16:36:06','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8189,1,'2011-04-19 17:37:13','2011-04-19 16:37:13','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\r\n\r\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel that is meaningless except to his own, handful of initiates while representing such bodies as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-9','','','2011-04-19 17:37:13','2011-04-19 16:37:13','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8190,1,'2011-04-19 17:49:22','2011-04-19 16:49:22','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\r\n\r\nArticle 27 (2) says...\r\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\r\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\r\n\r\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\r\n\r\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel that is meaningless except to his own, handful of initiates and represents a variegated bunch of bodies such as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\r\n\r\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>. I can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-10','','','2011-04-19 17:49:22','2011-04-19 16:49:22','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8191,1,'2011-04-19 17:51:30','2011-04-19 16:51:30','I\'m grateful to the <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/19/consumer_focus_spart/\" target=\"_blank\">ever-watchful Andrew Orlowski of the Register</a> for spotting that authors\' rights get a very powerful mention in the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the United Nations document, agreed in 1948, which, to quote Wikipedia, \'<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights\" target=\"_blank\">represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled</a>\'.\n\nArticle 27 (2) says...\n<blockquote>Everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.</blockquote>\nI hope that quote comes in useful next time a book thief tells you that you\'re the bad guy in all this for having the temerity to object to people stealing your work. Orlowski notes, \'Signatories agree that the individual creator, no matter how poor, must have access to redress violations of this right.\' Not much sign of that happening right now, is there?\n\nI can\'t help but wonder how the \'all copyright is theft the only true democracy is on the torrents, dude\' movement manages to square its clear breach of the UN Declaration with their professed position as libertarian activists intent on bringing \'freedom of thought\' to the masses. By nicking stuff naturally...\n\nOrlowski\'s story carries a neat little in-joke in the url -- the word \'Spart\'. For the younger among you this is a reference to the legendary Dave Spart, a humourless left-wing activist character created for <em>Private Eye. </em>Spart spouts trendy drivel that is meaningless except to his own, handful of initiates and represents a variegated bunch of bodies such as the \'National Amalgamated Union of Sixth-Form Operatives and Allied Trades\', usually in Neasden.\n\nYou can <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=128\" target=\"_blank\">hear Spart on the latest round of demos in London here</a>, representing the \'Dollis Hill Facebook Anarchists Against the Tory Cuts Collective\'.\n\nI can\'t wait for him to address the subject of book theft, though I suspect he\'ll have nothing to say that we haven\'t heard before from the usual sources.','Dave Spart, the Declaration of Human Rights and book theft','','inherit','open','open','','8180-autosave','','','2011-04-19 17:51:30','2011-04-19 16:51:30','',8180,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8180-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8192,1,'2011-04-20 12:19:55','2011-04-20 11:19:55','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? <a href=\"http://www.dwarsligger.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Go here to find out</a>.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use and read. Quite unlike any book you\'ve ever seen before. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger. And <a href=\"http://webshop.dwarsligger.nl/david-hewson-de-vaticaanse-moorden.html\" target=\"_blank\">here\'s where you can buy it.</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','publish','open','open','','forget-ebooks-for-a-moment-think-dwarsligger','','','2011-04-22 10:59:31','2011-04-22 09:59:31','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=8192',0,'post','',3),(8193,1,'2011-04-20 12:08:15','2011-04-20 11:08:15','','IMG_20110420_115926','','inherit','open','open','','img_20110420_115926','','','2011-04-20 12:08:15','2011-04-20 11:08:15','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8194,1,'2011-04-20 12:16:23','2011-04-20 11:16:23','','IMG_20110420_120051','','inherit','open','open','','img_20110420_120051','','','2011-04-20 12:16:23','2011-04-20 11:16:23','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8195,1,'2011-04-20 12:15:34','2011-04-20 11:15:34','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? Go here to find out.\n\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\n\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\n\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision','','','2011-04-20 12:15:34','2011-04-20 11:15:34','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8196,1,'2011-04-20 12:17:41','2011-04-20 11:17:41','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? Go here to find out.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision-2','','','2011-04-20 12:17:41','2011-04-20 11:17:41','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8197,1,'2011-04-20 12:18:06','2011-04-20 11:18:06','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? Go here to find out.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use and read. Quite unlike any book you\'ve ever seen before. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision-3','','','2011-04-20 12:18:06','2011-04-20 11:18:06','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8198,1,'2011-04-20 12:18:41','2011-04-20 11:18:41','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? Go here to find out.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use and read. Quite unlike any book you\'ve ever seen before. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision-4','','','2011-04-20 12:18:41','2011-04-20 11:18:41','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8199,1,'2011-04-20 12:19:12','2011-04-20 11:19:12','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? <a href=\"http://www.dwarsligger.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Go here to find out</a>.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use and read. Quite unlike any book you\'ve ever seen before. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision-5','','','2011-04-20 12:19:12','2011-04-20 11:19:12','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8200,1,'2011-04-20 12:19:19','2011-04-20 11:19:19','I mean ebooks are OK... but the Dwarsligger. Now that\'s cool. The what? <a href=\"http://www.dwarsligger.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Go here to find out</a>.\r\n\r\nDwarsligger is a new print book format, tiny and dead easy to use and read. Quite unlike any book you\'ve ever seen before. Invented by the Dutch who must be one of the most book-friendly nations on earth.\r\n\r\nAnd I\'m proud to say I just came out in Dwarsligger too -- courtesy of my lovely Dutch publisher De Fontein. Many thanks to everyone over there! I owe you a Heineken when I turn up in May.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the first Costa book, <em>De Vaticaanse Moorden, </em>as a Dwarsligger.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8193\" title=\"IMG_20110420_115926\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_115926-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8194\" title=\"IMG_20110420_120051\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/IMG_20110420_120051-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" /></a>','Forget ebooks for a moment, think Dwarsligger','','inherit','open','open','','8192-revision-6','','','2011-04-20 12:19:19','2011-04-20 11:19:19','',8192,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8192-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),