Waaaaaah!!! Nobody Want’s to Play With Me!

Hope you’re all doing well so far in the new year. Life sucks in the UK at the moment, with our new nazi prime minister cutting funding left, right and centre, leaving us with a skeleton service at a local level, lots of unemployed people, non-profits going bust and no tax-cuts to reflect the lack […]

The Eye of the World

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 […]

2011 – The Future?

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. […]

British Asian Writers

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 […]

Fight for Your Library

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 […]

End of a Decade

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 […]

Review – Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule

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 […]

Ebooks vs Print: Experiences, not Nostalgia

This is a blog posting about another blog posting, about an article that was written about a Nielsen Bookscan Report, which featured in an article on Bookseller. Confused? Good. Now read on. Ebooks have been the subject of interest for many a blog this past year. The Sony E-Reader has been with us for […]

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

Dear Readers, I thought I’d start this edition off with a little musing on one of my dreams from last night. I was dressed in regular clothing in a white-washed, in-door complex. I had a large assault-rifle type of gun in my hands and a bunch of other people, male and female, white, black, thin, […]

Trollking.co.uk

Its been three years now since http://www.trollking.co.uk was launched. I thought I’d take the opportunity to thank the 1780 web-surfers who have visited the site this year. Hey, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. I really do appreciate the support you all have given by visiting and leaving your comments. I must also apologise to the […]