This Writing Life

The fancy thoughts of novellist Ian Hocking

Tag: Scott Pack

Tacitus Schmacitus

Scott Pack replies to a Guardian piece by Stuart Jeffries that (according to Scott; I haven’t read it) is another ‘why can’t bookshops be like the old days’ article. Among other things, Scott writes: Less than a decade ago it would have been possible to walk into a branch of Waterstone’s, especially some of the [...]

★ Don’t f*ck with the Pack

Scott Pack, publisher with The Friday Project (HarperCollins), has a blog on which he provides betting tips, reviews, and snippets of news relating to the publishing industry. His reviews are often detailed. Sometimes they are short. One of his short reviews was read by the author and storm of tea-cup sized proportions has broken out. [...]

Free schtuff

If anybody from the digital advertising agency i-level wants to send me – as an upstanding, mixin’-it-up-bloggishly-since 2003 digi-man – a free Sony ebook reader, you are most bloody welcome.

Page 123

Paul Raven, over at the Velcro City Tourist Board, has tagged me with a meme. Here’s what the meme, which originates here, tells me to do: “To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people.” So, here goes. This is the fifth sentence [...]

The Friday Project

It seems as though The Friday Project – a newish, small publisher bent on publishing blog- and web-related content – has been picked up by HarperCollins, ending some (yes, feverish) speculation. HC [HarperCollins] bought TFP’s website, name and author contracts for an undisclosed sum from administrator Panos Eliades, Franklin and Company. TFP will be housed [...]