SnowBlog
21 Mar 2006: Snowbooks in Conversation (about Drugs)
Lisa Carver, author of Drugs Are Nice, which is in all good bookshops any minute now, has just been interviewed over at 3:AM Magazine, whose five-year-anthology will also be published by Snowbooks in June.
Lisa is interviewed by up-and-coming young novelist Noah Cicero (who also appears in the 3:AM anthology), on such topics as sex with authors, sex with midgets and how the 18 year old Lisa would feel if she was handed a copy of the book (hint: unsurprised).
Read the full interview here.
There was also a great review of Drugs... over at Dogmatika - check it out - and more to come soon. We'll keep you informed...
In other news... Kat Pomfret's wonderful Paradise Jazz, despite narrowly missing out on this round of Richard & Judy's Book Club, is nevertheless on sale at a special price of £3.99 over on their website, in the 'Ones To Watch' section: go grab yourself some summer reading.
posted on March 21, 2006 01:28 PM | link | Comments (0) | Leave a comment
16 Mar 2006: Global SnowCorps
Sometimes we sit around poking at the holes in our socks, dreaming of the day when we earn a living wage and can afford tube ads. Sometimes we daydream a little too hard. Sometimes we imagine that in the future we will be huge and all-powerful and successful and all our books will sell half a million copies in the first week of publication. Sometimes we imagine that in the future we will have a forty-storey office tower in downtown Chicago atop of which will be a twenty foot high platinum snowflake, slowly rotating. Sometimes we imagine that on one dark day in the future the twenty foot high snowflake will fall off the building to the streets below and roll through the city causing damage and destruction, and it will be known as Black SnowDay. Sometimes we spend valuable publishing time creating new logos of our future company:
and writing lyrics for our Corporate Anthem:
[To the tune of Handel's Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus:]
Glo-ble SnowCorps, Glo-ble SnowCorps,
GlobalSnowCorps, GlobalSnowCorps,
Glo-ble Snow-Corps!
Glo-ble SnowCorps, Glo-ble SnowCorps,
GlobalSnowCorps, GlobalSnowCorps,
Glo-ble Snow-Corps!
It is right that you should fear
GlobalSnowCorps,
GlobalSnowCorps,
Glo-buh-hul SnowCorps!
You can-not flee; it's always near
GlobalSnowCorps,
GlobalSnowCorps,
Glo-buh-hul SnowCorps!
And so on. With lots of big chorus voices, as George Harrison once said.
Sometimes we should just get on with our work.
posted on March 16, 2006 01:13 PM | link | Comments (1) | Leave a comment
08 Mar 2006: Rights interest at London book fair
Hey, this is my first ever blog. I just wanted to tell everyone how jolly well we all did at the LBF this year.
Here are all the places keen on getting some action from the Snowbooks list: Italy, Brazil, Israel, Taiwan, Portugal, Slovenia, Italy, Russia, France, US, Bulgaria and Poland. And it's not just Adept (!), it's also City of the Sun, The Other Eden, The Sunny Side, Idle Thoughts, Paradise jazz, Plotting for Beginners and The Edgier Waters!
Nice.
posted on March 8, 2006 12:06 PM | link | Comments (0) | Leave a comment
01 Mar 2006: And another thing
Not content with creating fire (Fire!) I also did this. With a lot of help from Rob. And Anna and Gilly and James. Looks like a normal (although unusually beautiful, granted) AI, you say. But did you know it was created by exporting bibliographic data from our one-version-of-the-truth ONIX database (thanks to the wonderful anko), put through an xslt transform (in freeware cooktop) and modified with a .css style sheet? Now all the code is done I have to click just five times - compared to spending at least a morning doing it manually. Nifty.
A few years ago, back in the days when I was a normal, ground-down, time-starved employee, I feared computers. Now they are my friends.
posted on March 1, 2006 07:07 PM | link | Comments (0) | Leave a comment
01 Mar 2006: Anyone need any fire? Any fire, at all?
If you do, then tell me because I've figured out (thanks to a great photoshop tutorial here) how to make really cool fire, as seen in this example. I did that! Me! Ahem.
posted on March 1, 2006 06:55 PM | link | Comments (0) | Leave a comment