Peter Damien

Peter Damien has been reading since time out of mind, writing for a very long time, and been hopelessly lost to a disgraceful addiction to tea for a few years now. He writes short stories, comics, a lot of articles, and novels at an achingly slow pace. When not staring at words, he spends a lot of time in the woods, as befits a man of his hairstyle. He lives with a billion books, a tolerant wife, too many animals, and also two small boys. When it comes to writing, the small boys are, frankly, no help whatsoever. You can find Peter on Twitter, if that's the kind of thing you're into. Twitter: @peterdamien

Book Touring Like a Rock Star

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The Importance of Endings

A little while ago on Twitter, Joe Hill mentioned that after years of work, he had written the very last ...

Barnes & Noble’s Midlife Crisis

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The Dangers of Reading About Writers

There’s an old adage which warns, “Never meet your heroes,” lest you discover them to be human and they disappoint. ...

Gimmicks, Language, and the Evolution of Reading

(This is No. 43 in our series of Public Service Films, following the success of No. 42, How Not To Be ...

A Love Song for Dead Tree Books

The other day, I bought a copy of The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. I got home with it, sat ...

How I Discovered Alan Moore Without Knowing It

There’s many ways we encounter art that we fall in love with. Maybe a web-site recommends it to us, or ...

It’s Bookish Heavy Metal Time!

Like mixing chocolate and peanut butter together to produce a delicious new combination (seriously, someone should market it), mixing the ...

Reading Pathway: Isaac Asimov

On the face of it, Isaac Asimov doesn’t seem like that difficult an author to get into…and really, he’s not. ...

Grumpy Old Men and the Books They Hate

So, recently an article came out in which someone complained about, among other tiresome arguments, 50 Shades of Grey and the effect ...