Computers are already fighting our wars for us, managing our economy, taking away our jobs and beating us at chess. Now, to cap it all, it seems they are presuming to advise us on how to write novels as well. Or, at least, bestselling novels. This ought to be annoying, but I have to admit that the results of computer surveys into what makes a bestseller are actually of compelling interest and full of the sorts of facts and stats that some of us really enjoy. Did you know, for instance, that there is a specific BISAC code for ‘historical romance novels with Vikings’?

Literary Review

Sep 2016

Categories

Christopher Hart

Not Much Comfort

Night Plunderers & River Pilferers

Heretic in the Pulpit

What the Doctor Ordered

Joyful Logorrhoea

Serving up a Treat

Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Cet Homme?

Turning Up One’s Nose

Kiss Kiss

Modern Manhood

Culture Clash

Existence of an Exile

Grim OOP North

Horribly Sane

The Caribbean Queen

The Joylessness of Self

Savage Life

The Order of the Good Death

The Old, Nowadays- They’re All the Same

Insights on Indexing

Heart And Seoul

Something Rotten in the Borough of Camden

Drink With The Joneses

Talking Statues