Last Tuesday the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, launched a book in the Executive Wing of Parliament. What!!!? That doesn't happen very often. But then it was a very special book. Helen Clark made it obvious that she...
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Our arsenal of professionalism
Let me share a couple of sentences from an old-fashioned, brand new novel I have just finished reading, The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart. These words speak to all technical writers, web designers and other professionals. They speak to...
Message from Flatland
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Some time back I lost my tiny copy of the classic...
PDF dilemmas (dilemmae?)
My new book is nearly finished, and I have decided that — at least initially — it will be published only as a PDF e-book. Reasons abound. An e-book is appropriate for a book about online writing. PDFs are getting...
Test of a good thriller
The test of a good thriller is suspension of disbelief: am I having such a good time that I don't hear the voice of common sense in my head? You know the moment, when a James Bond type gets a...