Well, I’ll tell you what it’s like when I actually am famous, which of course I’m not at the moment. But it is nice, I must admit, to see my name in the paper (and I don’t mean in the crime or court section). Of course, since I write regular pieces for magazines, it’s quite [...]
OK, this is silly. I posted a few paragraphs of Beneath Gray Skies into the “analyze your style” site, and it told me Raymond Chandler. I then tried with an except from At the Sharpe End and it told me I was like Ian Fleming.
I was flattered, I suppose, until someone told me that they [...]
A key plot device in my book At the Sharpe End is the use of technology in the financial marketplace – specifically, extrapolating trends to predict future movements (I don’t think I’ve given too much plot away in those few words).
So now what do I see in The Australian?
Maybe machines can do better, or at [...]
I went through the book two or three times more after it had come back from the hard-working proofreaders. I can’t promise that all errors are out of there, but I think most of them have gone by now.
It’s a funny feeling, sending it off to the printer for the proof copy. I’ve just finished [...]
I shall be talking tomorrow (21 June) in Tokyo at the Media Tectonics meeting, about the joys of publishing your own work. As always, though I have a pretty good idea in my head of what I am doing, getting it all down in a form that makes sense to others and will ft into [...]
One of the really nice things about publishing your own book is that you have absolute power over how your book is going to look. No more blaming the publisher’s marketing department for a bad typeface, or a nauseating color for the jacket that reminds you of the last time you had to take the [...]
A non-autobiographical story of life, love and death in Tokyo. Coming soon to an Amazon (and B&N, etc.) near you, At the Sharpe End follows the adventures of a British consultant living and working in Tokyo who finds himself in the midst of financial and political chaos at the end of 2008. There’s an embryonic [...]
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