Archive for the ‘site news’ Category

tom lloyd on the price of ebooks: http://tomlloyd.livejournal.com/52658.html # i'm having a successful day of slob. # after a month i am still not able to access my library room. # new blog post: elves: once walked with gods – james barclay http://www.lateralbooks.com/?p=738 # my god! i don't have brent weeks' new book yet!!! argh! [...]

oh my god! norwegian wood! as a movie! murakami’s most normal novel finally making it into film – where it should have been years ago. will they do it right? i am thinking so. by looks of it, it looks like it will be a beautiful film. of course, give the americans a few weeks [...]

Good news! Well, for me. My book of poetry, I Am Not An Igloo is on its way. I’m kind of looking forward to it. I’ve collected up some of my favourite poems going back some ten-odd years. Plenty of them came from the old newsgroup, alt.life-sucks and others from various other roosts I’ve had [...]

check out jack martin's site: http://tainted-archive.blogspot.com for some western goodness. # my first book of poetry – coming soon! # be afraid! be very afraid! # just finished reading tom lloyd's next offering, "the ragged man" # new blog post: the ragged man – tom lloyd http://www.lateralbooks.com/?p=713 # Powered by Twitter Tools

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978267540 # finishing up "the ragged man" and then onto some i've had for ages! # http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=210584830489 # shower time! you NEED to know that. # tonight's status update: tired. the end. # john sandford's new book is in my hot mittens, too. # Powered by Twitter Tools

my wife hit level 70 in wow today. i'm only 68. :/ # we're both 70 now. good news! # new blog post: the grave thief – tom lloyd http://www.lateralbooks.com/?p=706 # Powered by Twitter Tools

customer of the day: “hi, can i help with anything today?” customer – best described as vaguely pretty in a tracksuit trailerpark kind of way: “look. i’m just not interested in you, okay?” i, holding up my wedding ring and a grin: “great! i’m not interested in you, either!” customer expression: priceless. i still didn’t [...]

To start with, I use two monitors. I can’t use one. On one monitor, I have OpenOffice which is for me a more useful and worthwhile program than the Microsoft alternative. Other than being free, it’s stripped down and more reliable, whilst still being able to save in Word format which is obviously required. I use OpenOffice for writing out the story. For plot, I use OpenOffice’s version of Excel. This has been helping me to structure my novel with meticulous care. I need it, because I’m a bit of a chaotician when I am not forcing myself into structured creativity. I lose the plot, so to speak, if I don’t have one carefully constructed.

new blog post: the twilight herald – tom lloyd http://www.lateralbooks.com/?p=701 # such a long week! work has swallowed me alive! # dammit! i've run out of choc licorice bullets. # Powered by Twitter Tools

new blog post: stormcaller – tom lloyd http://www.lateralbooks.com/?p=695 # my wife hit level 50!! and managed to WIPE the floor on her first few battlegrounds! so proud… # terminal world # i need a drink of water! # Powered by Twitter Tools