But, really? this? Am reminded of Winston Smith's compulsory and surveilled physical jerks.
The National Health Service is to put its own 1.35 million staff at the head of a new fight against obesity by encouraging them to join weight-watching groups and take out gym memberships, its new head will announce this week.
How about you reduce the ( Read more... )

In an email exchange the other day I was bemoaning the excessive length that seems to be the Done Thing for so many genre books these days.

It was suggested to me that this was because of the rise of ebooks, but it seems to me that the biblio-BMI has been on the rise since well before ebooks were that much of a thing.

I don't know if you could go ( Read more... )

And I should be doing a recent reading post, but I'm still too exhausted and out-of-sync. But this irked me enough to generate a probably deceptive surge of energy to post with.

Making my way through the piles of accumulated mail, I came to Focus: the BSFA Magazine for Writers, Autumn 2007 no 51, which included an article on 'How do I stand out on ( Read more... )

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