RobAroundBooks is here to stay (and I’ve got you lot to thank for that)

Dear all,
Well, it was a super-traumatic week for me last week as my spirit rose to the heavens at the start of the week, before crashing back down to earth again with a huge bang in the latter half. The actions of a few ‘disbelievers’ i.e. those didn’t think that my intentions in lit blogging [...]

Flash Clash Challenge update: Four becomes five

Just a quick one folks to let you know that I’ve bolted on another flash fiction specialist to my Flash Clash Challenge. A quick read through of Scott Pack’s review of Nik Perring’s Not So Perfect collection this morning, reminded me that I’ve overlooked that most excellent of flash fiction collections, (so I’ve heard), [...]

Why Rob is going to be ’shorting out’ throughout the month of May

And so here we are into the month of May, and If the reading schedule at RobAround Manor wasn’t packed enough already – with both my Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist and Totally Knut reading projects running at full throttle at the moment – then things are set to get a whole lot busier around [...]

Site News: Rob is certifiably eccentric

Dear reader, I really must aplogise for my lack of posts over the past few days. The thing is, I believe that I possess an incurable case of eccentricity – at least in the way I think – because when I get something in my head I grasp on to it like a dog [...]

Site News: There’s big(ish) changes in the wind!

As always seems to be the case when I hit a personal blogging milestone – in this case my 1000th blog post – I get all introspective and start thinking long and hard about things. I know it wasn’t that long ago since the last time I thought ‘long and hard’, but it’s clear [...]

Site News: Is this the longest blog post in history?

So it’s been almost two weeks since I took the rather impulsive step of drawing up on my blog posting in order to reinvest the time in bringing everything back to order at RobAroundBooks. It was a rather unexpected decision to make I know (especially when things didn’t look all that disorderly in [...]

Site News: Almost there…

Hey, fellow readers! As many of you will know I’ve been light on blogging during the past week so I could catch up on some long overdue background work on RobAroundBooks. Progress is going well but because I’ve not quite got to where I want to be, I wanted to quickly check in to [...]

Site News: Time to get ‘the show’ on the road again…

..starting with a full and frank apology.

Missing in Inaction: An apology from Rob

So this is the post where I eat humble pie and apologise profusely for my unannounced absence over the past few days. This is something I’ve never done before, and I never plan on doing again – if I can help it.
Fact is this time around I couldn’t help it. I hit an [...]

Happy Halloween from all at RobAroundBooks!

Thanks to Steinbeck for getting into the Halloween spirit (although I’m not too sure he’s happy about it )

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