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Weed sprouts on Kyoto After Dark

chrispagefiction — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:27:12 +0000

I would like to express a huge debt of thanks to Kym Hutcheon of Kyoto After Dark for putting up a very large and froody interview about Weed and related things on the KAD site.

The splash is much larger and indulging than I could have hoped for or deserve. I am afraid I rambled on far too long, for which I apologise. I’m afraid that’s me being brief.

Kyoto After Dark is your key to the ancient city. The site offers an introduction to places to feed and water yourself, as well as cluing you in on culture and entertainment.

So that’s Kyoto After Dark, folks. Pop in for a beer.

Artist in perpetual motion

chrispagefiction — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:56:53 +0000

Seitaro Kuroda at work

My article about Seitaro Kuroda, artist, in Kansai Scene: click here.

It was a whoppingly good afternoon hanging out with the gentleman and a rare treat for me because I spend so much time editing and managing, I don’t often get to do articles or point the camera at anything other than my foot.

Weed the novel in paperback and available through Amazon

chrispagefiction — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:20:50 +0000

At long, long last, the paperback version of Weed is available on Amazon, right here.

O, frabjous day! Calooh! Callay!

It’s only taken more years and tries than I would care to count, but, well, bloody mindedness will out.

Now, I have to market the bloody thing. There, I am clueless. I read that Facebook is one avenue but I am not sure what to do with it, so if anyone has any ideas, you know where to send them.

You won’t find a paperback version of Shorts on Amazon yet, because I haven’t arranged one. And when I do, it will not longer be called Shorts, because it’s an over used name.

I’ll be boring everyone with news of that project as we go along.

Meanwhile, I should now go get my pencil out and do something with it because with Weed in paperback I have one less reason for procrastination.

Weed and Shorts now in Kindle store

chrispagefiction — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:26:29 +0000

Well, if you want something done properly, do it yourself … ahem.

The novel Weed and short story collection Shorts are now finally available through the Kindle store.

Weed here.

Shorts here.

Way past time too.

The two have been available since Sunday bt I have been cowed by other work and haven’t got around to mentioning the fact.

I feel a bit ambivalent about playing with Amazon after all the uncool things they have done in recent years but, sod it, they are the biggest distributor of books, e- or otherwise. I shall reserve my principles for my stories. Ahem.

Readers can download Kindle books to their Kindle readers, iPads, other tablets, iPhone, iPod touch or laptop if you have the relevant free software installed.

So, only a year and a bit after the damn things came out, here they are available through the main channel. Quite fast for me, really.

And I hope to have some other froody news later this week.

Waterworld planet is more Earth-like than any discovered before

chrispagefiction — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:39:39 +0000

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427394.000-alien-planet-could-be-ultimate-water-world.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/16/waterworld-planet-earth-life

With a tachyon drive such as the one Weed is building, we could be there in no time at all.

The evolution of bat migration

chrispagefiction — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:39 +0000

Evolutionary imperatives fill us with thoughts, feelings and desires that we’re not in control of.

Hello, good evening and bollocks

chrispagefiction — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:07:49 +0000

A new blog to promote the novel Weed and short stories of Chris Page. And aren’t you all just sick of hearing about this.