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Continue reading →: The Blog Awards Long List 2009
Eoin Purcell A rake of Mercier authors made the Irish Blog Awards Longlist! The wonderful Grandad made two lists; Best Personal Blog and Best Humour Blog. You can buy his book on the newly web-sales enabled Mercier Press website here. The divine ice-cream making, Book of Sweet Things writing, Murphy’s…
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Continue reading →: Some possible reasons why books will fade away (Maybe)!!
Eoin Purcell The iphone will kill them Or so Gareth Powel thinks. Allrecipes.com are offering a free iphone app DinnerSpinner is a genius little tool. Books will have a hard time facing off the challenge from these fancy, mobile and portable tools, oh hang on a second … Eoin
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Continue reading →: Authonomy Contracts Three Books From Members
Eoin Purcell Strike me down I have to say I saw this coming. After some recent bad press on POD issues, Authonomy issued an e-mail informing the community that they have contracted three books from amongst the huge slush pile of authors. Coffee At Kowalski’s by Miranda Dickinson Rosie is…
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Continue reading →: 90th Anniversary of the first Dáil
Eoin Purcell Two Historic items on this one day in Irish History RTÉ have a very nice link to their archive for the 90th Anniversary of the first Dáil. The rather smashing lecture by Kevin B. Nolan hits some of the great highlights of what Dáil Eireann always represented to…
