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Hallo, and a warm, unsteady welcome to Bitchin’ Books! This is the inaugural post for my first ever Wordpress blog. (After getting my feet wet, like so many of us, over at Blogger.com – see the shameful evidence over in my blogroll). Well, you’ll want to know all about me, so I’ll get down to it!
My pen-name is Ollie Hicks, and I am a writer, online bookseller, booklover, perennial student and general layabout who’d rather be laid on a sofa reading than doing a decent job of work. I am sure I have company out there! I sell on Ebid.net (TheBadLibrarian) and on Ebay (Bitchin Books), Amazon (webserf6) and Green Metropolis. I’m currently thinking of expanding to Bonanzle and perhaps my own online shop at some point.
I love books, and I like to think, in a limited way, I know books. Because of that, I happen to have inside info that Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avocado is, no question, the greatest book ever written.
Hey, no arguments at the back. Remember, if you were right I’d agree with you!
I’m pretty damn proud of the very existence of this blog. As a technically challenged individual, the very fact of having managed to download the appropriate files, ftp them to my domain and hosting, and only having relied on my tech-bod other half to perform the minor task of, y’know – getting the damn thing to actually work – seems like a hell of a feat to me. In fact it left me totally exhausted, and slightly snivelling. God bless the Y chromosome is what I say. Sure us girls could get tech, mechanical, practical things finished ourselves if we had to. Eventually. But sometimes it’s nice not to have to! That one last step – getting my site to recognise the existence of, and act upon the instructions of my Wordpress files – was really one step beyond me at that point!
But, now, here I am, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m here, I’m fulla beer, get used to it! What I intend to do in the wondrous world of Bitchin’ Books, is to discuss all the wonders of online bookselling, to review whatever books I feel like, to inflict upon you any bits of creative writing that I may be inspired to write, and generally to light a little light and shine it upon your benighted lives. That sound good to you?
Okay, we’re all set!
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