Monthly Archives: November 2010

Enjoying Deliciousness

Some amusing Engrish I discovered when I was in Japan. From a confectionery company’s advertising: I am in the mood to enjoy deliciousness. Smiles overfrow on the dining table.  All kinds of tastes are loaded. Today we’ll serve special deliciousness

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North Korean Spam

Akismet is an essential plugin if you’re using WordPress.   It’s a plugin that filters out spam comments.  Every now and then I like to have a look what has ended up in the spam folder. Recently I’ve been getting

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Chinese Version of Reading By Numbers

I ended up corresponding with White Moon, the Chinese woman that did the translation of Hokkaido Green. And now there is an authorised Mandarin translation of my story, Reading By Numbers. Given the structure and formatting of the story, it

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Hokkaido Green Comments

Another interesting comment about my story, Hokkaido Green: You’ll sorta understand this feeling when you get older. But it’d be really good if you understood it now so that you never have to. http://www.vgf.com/forums/mindless-link-propagation/76026-hokkaido-green-short-story.html

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Australian Spec Fiction on Sale

From the Aurealis Awards web site: http://www.aurealisawards.com/ Some of Australia’s best SF writers have donated their works to raise money for the awards ceremony. Some of the biggest names in Australian speculative fiction have generously given their novels and short stories

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The True Mark of Popularity

You know you’ve made it as a writer when someone in China is pirating your story. Someone did an unauthorized translation of Hokkaido Green into Mandarin. http://article.yeeyan.org/view/134824/149206 It’s amusing putting the Chinese into Google and seeing how it comes out in English.

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More Hokkaido Green Feedback

A reading group on Good Reads is discussing Hokkaido Green. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/431669-november-5-2010-hokkaido-green-by-aidan-doyle Their previous choice of author was Neil Gaiman.  I’m in good company. A Metafilter user posted a link to the story and lots of people have commented how much

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