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My 2009 Publishing Heroes

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January 5, 2010

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=hero&iid=7396611″ src=”0/6/7/f/Capt_Chesley_Sully_2705.JPG?adImageId=8803427&imageId=7396611″ width=”234″ height=”343″ /] Everyone is off writing prediction posts for 2010 (follow them on George’s wonderful tracker), I thought I might take a brief minute or two to consider the heroes of 2009. At least my heroes. I tried to keep it to a small…
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www.IrishPublishingNews.com Launches

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January 5, 2010

Last month I announced that I had rolled out an experimental service aggregating news links for Irish Publishing. Today, after much meddling and experimenting, I finally pushed Irish Publishing News to its own site: http://www.IrishPublishingNews.com I liked the experimenting and I’ve figured out a few things while I was at…
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Robin Sloan’s book has arrived

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January 4, 2010

I got a strange package in the post today (which is always fun). It turned out to be the package containing Robin Sloan’s new book, Annabel Scheme, which I along with several hundred others contributed towards bringing about. I’m very excited about this, looking forward to the read! Eoin
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Bookshops Are Dead: And I Killed Them

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January 4, 2010

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=bookshop&iid=7119995″ src=”b/f/4/1/Victims_Survey_The_2bd3.jpg?adImageId=8791690&imageId=7119995″ width=”234″ height=”351″ /] 2009 was a weak year for me in book reading terms. I read perhaps 26 or so (with some extra I’m fairly sure I have forgotten): 1) Europe Between The Oceans 2) A Fire Upon The Deep 3) The Ascent of Money…
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2009 Stats & Top Posts

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January 2, 2010

WELCOME TO 2010 For all the stat nerds Wordpress tells me that I had 39,468 views in 2009 a solid 20% increase on 2008. The top three referrers to the site were: 1) Twitter 2) Nathan Bransford 3) Emerging Writer The Top Three Posts were: 1) Publishers and the tangled…
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