Drowning in a sea of Kindle

Drowning in a sea of Kindle

Tim Adler talks about what made him become a writer, and why he went down the indie publishing route “…just as a paroxysm of nausea swept over him,” I finished, looking up from my exercise book. My schoolmates looked bored, and somebody flicked a chewed-over paper...
5 pieces of journalism you must read

5 pieces of journalism you must read

Here is my highly-selective Top 5 of the best feature writing to have come out of America. A ridiculous idea, I know. From Norman Mailer to David Foster Wallace, here are the US journalists who have certainly influenced me. To my mind, the apogee of art is where...
Review – Roger Waters The Wall

Review – Roger Waters The Wall

As a teenager, Tim Adler associated Pink Floyd with the worst of Prog Rock. Thirty years on, will a new concert movie of Roger Waters performing The Wall change his mind? Celebrities often get stuck at the emotional age they first became famous. So Michael Jackson was...
Review – Legend of the East End

Review – Legend of the East End

Reggie, left, and Ronnie Kray in 1966. Photograph: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis British gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray are back in the limelight, thanks to a new movie Legend about their rise to power. Local resident Tim Adler still feels wisps of their...
Productivity hacks: slow and low that is the tempo

Productivity hacks: slow and low that is the tempo

Productivity hacks have become the in thing in self-publishing, with gurus offering to boost your daily word count, says Tim Adler Over the past few weeks, I have been listening to a lot of self-publishing podcasts from Joanna Penn’s The Creative Penn to Rocking...