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In an effort to lead a healthier lifestyle I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol in 54 hours now, which is probably the longest streak of abstinence I’ve endured since the late 1990s, but I think today a little (or a lot of) champagne is in order. (read more)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, there was a time, back in the olden days, when I spent so much time blogging that I didn't have any time left to write books. Now it's pretty much the other way around, and that's fine because I never wanted to be a professional blogger in the first place; I always wanted to write books and therefore I'm not complaining ( Read more... )

This post is going to be an incoherent rant about I don't even know what because I don't really have anything meaningful to say today, I'm tired and lazy, and I have too many things on my mind that don't belong here. (read more)

(New blog post: Etymology for Dummies #4 - Of Cats and Dogs)

A few minutes ago I officially entered my debut novel into the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. I'm very excited. And by excited I mean I'm a nervous wreck. But it's all good. (read more)

Back in my previous life as Kamichan the Japanese entertainment blogger, I would often browse the Johnny's blogosphere to see what other fans had to say, and occasionally (not very often but occasionally) I'd read somebody else's blog posts and think, "Gee whiz, that sounds awfully familiar, almost like something I would have said!" And then it ( Read more... )

So, I've decided to enter my first novel And a Child Will Lead Them in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. (read more)

As (sort of) promised in last week's blog post, today I'm going to reveal a few tiny teasing little details about my upcoming book. Before I get to it, though, and because it's related, I want to talk about what is probably one of the most misunderstood words in the English language. (read more)