The Reader Organisation New Website
Over the last six months I’ve been working at The Reader Organisation developing their web presence and redesigning the website. The new site went live on Friday and although there is still work to do to bring all of the organisation’s projects into the one site, it’s working out pretty well so far. Take a [...]
Cain’s Revisions and the Temporal Paradox
Over the last week or so I’ve been working on the revisions I had to make to Cain’s: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. Although the amount of writing and revising wasn’t much in the scheme of things, it wasn’t easy. When you plan and write a book, you have an idea in your [...]
Random Excuse Generator
For those of us with a professional interest in procrastination theory the news from Australia that Henry Hoke’s Random Excuse Generator has been recreated brings a welcome injection of optimism amid falling financial markets, slipped deadlines, and stumbling projects. This short film produced by Mark Thomson, Research Director at the Institute for Backyard Studies, explains:
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language: Finished at Last
Academic books are a curious thing. They are essential to the careers of academics, who now need to write lots and lots of them to reach the dizzying heights of Assistant Lecturer (grade B) while their superiors reached the same level 30-odd years ago by having lunch with the Dean and offering to pay for [...]
Catching Up, Moving On
Siobhan and I sent off the manuscript for Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language earlier this week after an intense month of re-reading, revision, collation and correction. We’ve done very little else since early January so there is a lot of catching up to do, but there are also exciting new projects [...]
100 British Crime Writers
Just to note that this morning I posted off the contract for the 100 British Crime Writers book, which is the companion to 100 American Crime Writers, and part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Crime Files Series. So far the project website reflects only the American book, but an update is coming right up.
Literary Art of Murder Conference
Siobhan and I are getting through the Key Ideas entries steadily now, aiming for our January manuscript submission deadline, but my attention is increasingly drawn by my crime fiction projects, including the two books. I received information today about the Literary Art of Murder conference (April 4-6, 2008) where I’m going to be talking about [...]
Key Thinkers Review
The journal Forum for Modern Language Studies has a nice short review of my co-edited book Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. This is encouraging at a time when work on its sibling volume, Key Ideas is underway. Here’s the review, which appears in Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(1):102-103:
Key Thinkers [...]
Key Ideas Sample Entries Available
Now that the Cain’s book and Siobhan’s book about the influence of the Vienna Circle have gone off to their respective publishers we can concentrate on the Key Ideas project, which has been running alongside up to now. We have most of the entries in now and have begun the editing process. I have just [...]
Robert Cain: Irish Slummy, Victorian Gentleman
I have just heard that my proposal to give a paper about Robert Cain at the Liverpool: A Sense of Time and Place conference on September 14-15, 2007 has been accepted. The conference is being organised by the University of Liverpool in association with Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Hope University, National Museums Liverpool and [...]
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