Recent content by M.A.N.

I too like to read crime novels and thrillers. I recently discovered Child and Preston's series about FBI agent Pendergast. Full of action and quirky characters. Brilliant. I love Boris Akunin's books about Fandorin and the ones about the nun Pelagia. Young adult books by Eoin Colfer, Herbie...

One of my best memories is when I picked up David Eddings The Belgariad. I thought that this is how fantasy should be. Not like the extremely sloooooow Lord of the Rings. Tolkien never got me hooked. I actually never finished The Two Towers ... So I'm guessing Eddings is an influence. Another...

Kevin: You're absolutely right. I'm not really there yet and feel that I need that piece of software. But for those here that has a lot of novels already written and ready to submit, that program is definitely worth checking out.

Most posts in this thread talk about OpenOffice, the free version of Microsofts Office. And while free is good, the Writer portion of the suite is a wordprocessing program and as such it can be used to writing. Like Microsofts Word. But if you want to do writing geared to novels you should do...

I don't think paperbooks will disappear any time soon, but I definitely think ebooks (or rather text in various formats) will continoue to grow. For the reason above and many, many more. One reason we heard in the bookstore the other day: it's better having an ereader with you on holiday...

Let's not forget Baen Books. Especially not on a forum like this!

Great tip Egan1066. and @Ravana: Who needs books and Wikipedia when we got you? You're clearly the walking dictionary/encyclopedia by yourself. Take care, Magnus

With both movies (I didn't know before this that there would be two) named the Hobbit: .... I'm guessing people will refer to them as the first and second Hobbit films. Like I think of the Star Wars movies as the first, second, the crappy, the last and so on. I never seem to remember the actual...

I'm with Ravana on this. Serratus anterior is a muscle often overlooked in back problems. And there's this little nifty thing I learned - and never thought of: working on your computer at your desk while walking, slowly, on a treadmill. A sure remedy for all couch potatoes. Take care, Magnus

I agree with you on the DRM issue. It's a problem, but actually mostly with the e-books from UK and US. Here in Sweden (and Germany) all (most) publishers have dropped the DRM. Hopefully we'll see this soon with the english ebooks as well. Take care, Magnus

Hi Kenny and welcome. I'm new to this forum as well. I haven't done any writing as such ever, but been trying to. Dabbling with it on and off. Come to think of it, I did start a sc-fi type of story forty years or so ago ... Seriously, it's a dream, perhaps made bigger because of the book store...

Stephen Fry is not only a brilliant actor and director, a powerful force in the computing world, but he's also a very, very good author. Both "The Hippopotamus" and "The Stars Tennisballs" are excellent. The latter is actually The Count of Monte Christo set in our time. But it's been maybe...

I've heard of the concept, but didn't know about this particular website. I'm guessing we will be seeing more and more of new and different approaches to bringing the work of authors to readers.

Smackey? I like it!

I'm working on a story where my protagonist uses a cane or walking stick. He has to because of a bad knee. The cane is of course a terrific weapon and maybe I'll call it ... I dunno ... "Bob"? Or "Butler"? Yeah, that's it.