Recent content by PaulJNewell

™ actually means it's not registered. If it were registered then you'd use the ® symbol. Anyone can use ™ to indicate that they wish a name/logo not to be stolen, but it's legally much weaker than ®.

steffee, You 'click' to adjust the values. It's a graphical representation of the tone/mood/style of a film/book - rather than just saying it's a 'Romantic/Comedy'. I'm a software engineer, so not that much effort. Sorry you don't like the green. It kinda goes with my site.

Yup, take your point Stewart. The thing with tags is that they are limitless and undefined. This is kind of a half-way house between the two. By accepting that there are a set of concepts that people are familiar with, this is a graphical representation of to what extent a film/book falls...

Hi guys, Having a natural dislike of genres, aka pigeon holes, I got to thinking that there must be a better way. So just for a bit of fun I knocked up something called a GenrePlex. It's a long way from perfect but if you're interested maybe you could suggest improvements. Find out more...

Thanks you guys. Never too late Josh ;)

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Only 1000. You can do as little as 500, but less cost effectively of course.

Thanks muchly for your comments Kookamoor. Just to clarify, vanity publishing should be avoided by everyone. This is where you hand over money to a 'publisher' to publish your book, and sign away most of your rights. I am effectively my own publisher and have paid no one (other than a printer...

And in response to your next comment: if you read the book, you'd know.

Just because I have other skills doesn't make me any less good at being a writer. A wild concept here, but maybe you'd like to read the first chapter of my novel on my website before you comment on my skills as a writer.

Well, Stewart, maybe if you've written your own book, typeset it, proof read it, designed the cover, created three websites, managed a printer, registered for an ISBN, got it listed on Amazon and Google Books, appeared on local radio, and arranged a launch party at Starbucks, all on your own ...

Hi, I'm new to the site. Hi to you all. I read with interested the thread on POD 'publishers'. I decided to self-publish my own novel (but the 'proper' print-run way). I'm aware that I will sell about as many books as I have friends, but I kind of felt that I just wanted to hold the thing...