The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Eye of the World is the first book in Robert Jordan’s international bestselling Wheel of Time series. I’ve been eyeing this series up for a long time, but have been put off by the prohibitive length of each installment and […]

First off, the chocolate keyboard doesn’t have much of anything to do with today’s blog. It’s a nebulas link bringing together writing (blog and the wider sense) and a common new years resolution of stop eating chocolate. In fact dieting is the number one resolution for most people. The second being to write a book. […]

The Bookseller have published an article on their website, on the reading habits of the British South Asian community (http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/136096-an-untapped-market.html). The thrust of the article is that British Asian writers tend to do well in sales and winning awards, but that there is only a handful of them. When I launched Seven Earths eJournal with the […]

Last Friday, I spent two hours at Burnley Central Library as a Living Library Book. I was titled, Muslim Author. Most of the two hours were spent talking to Ben Kenyon from the Burnley Express and then to Mary, one of the librarians. The sub-zero temperatures and icy roads had kept away most of the […]

The more you put something off, the harder it gets to just do it. As usual, my creative output has been hampered by the complexities and demands of the day job, which though rewarding, is quite time-consuming and burdensome on the mind. That said, I have been reading a lot of fiction and also managed […]

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first book in the Sword of Truth series. I almost didn’t read this book thanks to the mediocre tv adaptation, Legend of the Seeker. Luckily, I got past my bias and read the thing. The book follows the adventures of […]