Dickimaw Books Blog: Search Results
48 posts found. Showing 1–48.
![image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in clouds](/images/blog/migrating3-thumbnail.png)
![image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in clouds](/images/blog/migrating3-thumbnail.png)
![image of sign fastened to post](/images/blog/foxhole-bus-stop-thumbnail.png)
![Image of rough sea](/images/blog/seaford-waves-thumbnail.jpg)
![book cover of The Foolish Hedgehog](/images/blog/9781909440012-thumbnail.png)
📂 Children’s Illustrated Fiction Creative Writing 🔖 Re-published Story creation The Foolish Hedgehog
2019-10-10
I’ve been wondering what’s my all-time favourite book. My tastes have changed over the years.
2019-10-12
Living languages have an interesting fluidity. They evolve with the people who continually use them.
2019-10-19
Exploring the South Norfolk countryside. I’m not lost, honest!
2019-10-21
Writing a first draft is hard.
2019-10-21
The problem with the twenty-first century is that when technology fails we can be in a worse state than we might’ve been in when that technology didn’t exist or only existed in a primitive state.
2019-10-21
Novel beginnings are hard to write.
2019-10-22
2019-10-22
Where do you get your imagination from?
2019-10-24
2019-10-25
📂 Children’s Illustrated Fiction Creative Writing 🔖 Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back! Re-published Story creation
2019-10-25
📂 Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing Re-published The Fourth Protectorate The Private Enemy
2019-10-28
📂 Creative Writing Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction Language Norfolk 🔖 Dialect Re-published Story creation The Private Enemy
2019-10-29
The Fourth Protectorate is an alternative history novel where the principle point of departure is the Brighton bomb in 1984.
📂 Creative Writing Speculative Fiction 🔖 Alternative History Re-published Story creation The Fourth Protectorate
2019-10-30
![Image of Turbot and Sir Quackalot ducks](/images/blog/turbotquackalot-thumbnail.png)
![Image of arara with Broad Norfolk output](/images/blog/arara-qn-success-reverse-thumbnail.png)
The current secondary education system discriminates against students on the Autistic Spectrum, who may have a wide vocabulary, good spelling, punctuation and a firm understanding of grammar, but because they can’t understand sub-text, emotional responses and non-literal phrases they fail the English Language GCSE.
2019-11-15
I’ve been using TeX Live on Fedora for years, but today I encountered an odd error when trying to perform the usual sudo tlmgr update package.
2019-11-23
There are a number of RSS feeds and other notifications available on the Dickimaw Books site.
2019-12-05
![Image of ebook covers](/images/blog/ebooks-thumbnail.png)
UK mobile networks are sending a “stay at home” message to everyone in response to the current nationwide lockdown. While the link in that specific message is safe, don’t click on links in text messages. It’s very easy for scammers to fake that message and replace the safe link with their own nasty version.
2020-03-24
![Image of sample page with navigational icons](/images/blog/book-sample-the-private-enemy-page1-with-header-text-thumbnail.png)
![Image of ebook covers](/images/blog/ebooks-thumbnail.png)
![Image of two paperback books with saddle stitch binding.](/images/blog/kidsbooks-thumbnail.png)
![March 7-13 2021. Open the door to your next adventure. Read an Ebook Week 2021.](/images/blog/DOOR21-thumbnail.jpg)
![image of dickimaw parrot with cookies in clouds](/images/blog/migrating3-thumbnail.png)
![Main navigation bar showing Account highlighted](/images/blog/main-navigation-bar-thumbnail.png)
![Image of ebook covers](/images/blog/ebooks-thumbnail.png)
![Image of two robot heads the first has a slightly smiling mouth and white eyes the second has slightly downturned mouth and red eyes](/images/blog/robot-thumbnail.png)
![Image of a row of lever switches with a row of binary digits below them.](/images/blog/switches-with-digits-thumbnail.png)
Over the past few years there have been a number of major changes to the LaTeX kernel that have unfortunately broken code in old packages, classes and documents. The changes are beneficial to new documents and packages, but before the introduction of the new kernel features it was necessary for packages to hack the old kernel internal commands in order to achieve the desired result and, for the most part, the instabilities come from these hacks.
2021-09-06
![Golden circlet floating in the sky with flare coming from gem.](/images/blog/muirgealian-crown-thumbnail.png)
![Image of ebook covers.](/images/blog/ebooks-thumbnail.png)
The Dickimaw Books store has unfortunately closed until further notice. The reason for this is because PayPal has removed support for encryption with its PayPal Payments Standard option.
2022-03-24
For some weeks now, the forms on this site, such as the contact page, have been unable to send an email. It seems to be caused by an SSL issue outside of my control. All support channels to the web hosting company used by this site are down, which means I can’t even report the issue, let alone get it fixed.
2022-08-28 (updated 2022-10-08)
![The Foolish Hedgehog Cover Image.](/images/blog/9781909440111-thumbnail.png)
![Unsocial Media book cover.](/images/blog/9781909440128-thumbnail.jpg)
![Image of magnifying glass over a green bug.](/images/blog/bug-hunter-thumbnail.png)
![Book covers](/images/blog/ebooks4-thumbnail.png)
📂 Children’s Illustrated Fiction Crime Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing News Sale The Foolish Hedgehog The Private Enemy Unsocial Media
2023-07-06
![Book covers](/images/blog/ebooks4-updated-thumbnail.png)
📂 Books Children’s Illustrated Fiction Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing News Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back! Sale The Foolish Hedgehog The Private Enemy Unsocial Media
2023-12-15
![Ebook covers](/images/blog/ebooks4-updated-thumbnail.png)
📂 Books Children’s Illustrated Fiction Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing News Sale The Foolish Hedgehog The Private Enemy Unsocial Media
2024-03-02
2024-04-12 Search Blog
📂 Categories
- Autism
- Books
- Children’s Illustrated Fiction
- Illustrated fiction for young children: The Foolish Hedgehog and Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!
- Creative Writing
- The art of writing fiction, inspiration and themes.
- Crime Fiction
- The crime fiction category covers the crime novels The Private Enemy and The Fourth Protectorate and also the crime short stories I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing and I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing.
- Fiction
- Fiction books and other stories.
- Language
- Natural languages including regional dialects.
- (La)TeX
- The TeX typesetting system in general or the LaTeX format in particular.
- Music
- Norfolk
- This category is about the county of Norfolk in East Anglia (the eastern bulgy bit of England). It’s where The Private Enemy is set and is also where the author lives.
- Security
- Site
- Information about the Dickimaw Books site.
- Speculative Fiction
- The speculative fiction category includes the novel The Private Enemy (set in the future), the alternative history novel The Fourth Protectorate, and the fantasy novel Muirgealia.
🔖 Tags
- Account
- Alternative History
- Sub-genre of speculative fiction, alternative history is “what if?” fiction.
- book samples
- Bots
- Conservation of Detail
- A part of the creative writing process, conservation of detail essentially means that only significant information should be added to a work of fiction.
- Cookies
- Information about the site cookies.
- Dialect
- Regional dialects, in particular the Norfolk dialect.
- Docker
- Education
- The education system.
- Fantasy
- Sub-genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements.
- File formats
- Hippochette
- A pochette (pocket violin) with a hippo headpiece.
- I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook) set in the late 1920s on the RMS Aquitania. See the story’s main page for further details.
- Inspirations
- The little things that inspired the author’s stories.
- Linux
- Migration
- Posts about the website migration.
- Muirgealia
- A fantasy novel. See the book’s main page for further details.
- News
- Notifications
- Online Store
- Posts about the Dickimaw Books store.
- Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
- Re-published
- Articles that were previously published elsewhere and reproduced on this blog in order to collect them all together in one place.
- Sale
- Posts about sales that are running or are pending at the time of the post.
- Site settings
- Information about the site settings.
- Smile for the Camera
- A cybercrime short story about CCTV operator monitoring a store’s self-service tills who sees too much information.
- Story creation
- The process of creating stories.
- TeX Live
- The Briefcase
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- The Foolish Hedgehog
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Fourth Protectorate
- Alternative history novel set in 1980s/90s London. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Private Enemy
- A crime/speculative fiction novel set in a future Norfolk run by gangsters. See the book’s main page for further details.
- Unsocial Media
- A cybercrime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- World Book Day
- World Book Day (UK and Ireland) is an annual charity event held in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on the first Thursday in March. It’s a local version of the global UNESCO World Book Day.