2005 / Ebook / 129 pages / UK
***
Clarifies why the TV western was so huge in its time and argues why this was the best of them, blending social honesty and progressive attitudes with conservative gun solutions. It's basically Deep Space Nine with horses.
2005 / Ebook / 138 pages / Australia
****
With context and influences in the first half and the story of every song in turn in the second, this is as much as I wanted to know about peak Bowie, though the writer could do with reading up on what 'autism' is.
2007 / Ebook / 154 pages / USA
**
A thematically segmented overview of the grandiose hip hop sampler, spoiled by irrelevant snobbery towards certain bands and entire genres. Half of these books read like they're written by the same person under colourful pseudonyms, or maybe they all grew up reading the same music mag.
Rhys Hughes, Flash in the Pantheon
***
100 flash fictions under 1000 words, randomly sequenced to keep recurring characters, preoccupations and experiments from getting too repetitive. I'm always up for a quickie, the sillier the better, but I prefer these in their native habitats – providing light relief between more labourious journeys to the punchline.
Fave: 'Stale Air'
Susan Anderson, You Write, They Pay: How to Build a Thriving Writing Business from NOTHING!: Third Edition
2015 / Ebook / 76 pages / USA**
The unacknowledged, overarching demonstration of content self-marketing in action is more educational than the flimsy, occasionally outdated guidance it contains (such as still advocating spamming EzineArticles in 2015).
I twigged early on when she recommended hiring a $5,000 coach to help you explore your new career whim.
I twigged early on when she recommended hiring a $5,000 coach to help you explore your new career whim.
