I started thinking about languages the other day, which lead to a little light googling that wound up on this wikipedia article. Strange but true – the English spoken in Ireland is actually a dialect called Hiberno-English, which is heavily influenced by Irish. The way we say things and the words we use are not [...]
After seeing the latest round of self-publishing scams being inflicted on naive author wannabes, I can’t help but feel a little angry. They cut a little too close to home, you see. A year or two ago, before I began my education in the world of publishing, they might have snapped me up and fed [...]