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Archive for the ‘Erastes’ Category
Public Lending Right
Posted in Erastes, life, writing on February 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Change of Plans
Posted in Britain, Erastes, Scenery, writing on December 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ok – made some kind of decision about my next novel, “Hangingstone Hill.”
I had originally planned it to be set in Dartmoor but I’ve changed my mind. This, for a start, will make the name redundant as that’s a place name of a tor in the Dartmoor area.
It seems silly to me to live in [...]
ITIN–How NOT to do it
Posted in Erastes, writing on December 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
For the correct and painless way of obtaining your Individual Tax Identification Number – please see THIS POST by Alex Beecroft. To see exactly the way NOT to do it, read on.
March 2008. Your publisher supplies the W7 to fill in. The form looks relatively straightforward but has about 12 pages of “goobledegook” attached to [...]
The Devil’s Whore
Posted in Britain, Erastes, People of Britain, TV on November 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Shown on Channel Four this week, I sat down to watch “The Devil’s Whore” with a great deal of interest. My next novel is about the English Civil War and having invested so much research into it, I was curious to see how Channel Four dealt with it. Was it going to be something along [...]
Lost In Austen
Posted in Austen, Erastes, Society, TV, tagged Austen, lost in austen, TV on September 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Last night I watched Lost in Austen, which I enjoyed, although it surprised me that I did. It’s fairly obviously a clever twist on the Life on Mars idea, someone thrown into an environment that they weren’t expecting.
Basically if you didn’t see it (and there’s bound to be a repeat, [...]
