Where I’m at: the 2010 Edition
Crikey. Forgot about this thing.
Well, not really, I just haven’t been giving it much attention, at least not since September. Neglect is probably the right word, which is perhaps even worse. It’s like saying to your cat, ‘no, I didn’t forget to feed you, I just chose not to.’
In fact, like a cat, it seemed to rebel in its own way. A few image links in the CSS were mysteriously severed, and I’m afraid to go back and look through the archive to see what else might be wrong. That’s why the first thing I did was rework the template into something a bit simpler, lo-fi and mobile friendly (and if it’s not friendly enough, then you can hit the mobile button at the top).
So what have I been doing? Towards the end of last year, I spent most of the time being a journalist. You can find some of my words in the printed versions of a few publications around the place. I put the finishing touches on some new book concepts for Quarto, and I’ve just started work on another book that’s due to hit the stands in December. Can’t say anything about it right now, but it’s in the general science and health category. And, of course, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia should now be well and truly out and it’s absolutely gorgeous.
I should wrap up my post-grad degree in information science this year and I’ll hopefully release a couple of game prototypes over the coming months. I wouldn’t call them games, they’re really demonstrations of particular game mechanics that tap into some core aspects of psychology. I think of them as game ‘seeds’ — hopefully they’ll inspire developers much more capable than I to build something playable around them. I’ll cover them in more detail over at Trembling Hand.
So, back to this thing (see that? My first post in four months and I’m talking about myself again). Oddly, the busier I am, the more I blog, so there’ll be more posts popping up here. I’ll try and keep them more focused on the publishing industry (specifically books), and things related to information theory, so if either of those things interest you, then stick around. Thanks to the coming of the iPad, reactive Amazonian business tactics and the Great Google Swindle, I’ll have no shortage of things to say.
