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Why I Won’t Be Blogging The Hugo Shortlist This Year

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Andrew Hickey

This year, an actual majority of the entries in the Hugo Awards have made their Hugo Packet submissions PDF-only. See Charles Stross’ blog post about this from two years ago for why this is a bad thing. Last year, for … Continue reading →

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One Week Kindle Sale, and A Plea For Reviews

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Andrew Hickey

Amazon have recently changed their customer review system, so that comments from some of the reviews — even ones marked by most people as “unhelpful” — are put *above* the full list of reviews ranked by helpfulness. On two of … Continue reading →

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A quick request for anyone who’s read my Beatles book…

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Andrew Hickey

I’ve had a couple of reviews on Amazon of my Beatles book which are outright lies – specifically, one says “The author is obviously not much of a McCartney fan, and seems to dismiss much of his work up through … Continue reading →

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