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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
My New Ebook: Extra Stencil Threat – Short Fiction
I’ve published a brand-new collection of short stories – it’s available now as an e-Book. Just $0.99. And only from that link up above there. These stories are from right here at Off The Tracks but now you can get a curated set of stories to check out on your e-reader/Kindle app. The stories that make […]Archive
August 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
My New EBook: Lockdown 2 – Electric Avenue (Poems)
I’ve just published my new e-book. It’s called Lockdown 2: Electric Avenue – a set of poems. (There is no previous volume called Lockdown 1 by the way). My previous poetry collection is a softcover book available here. The poems in this new e-collection are all from the last year/18 months – all 2020/2021, some of them are lockdown/Covid-related […]Archive
August 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
My New EBook: With You, Shortly – Little fictions
I’ve just published my new e-book. My first of pure creative writing rather than any journalism. It’s called With You, Shortly – Little fictions and is a set of short stories, some very short, flash fiction, micro-fiction, prose poems, call them what you will. Just don’t call them late for dinner. Etc. I’ve been writing my short […]Archive
June 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
My New EBook: Wrestling Is Fake. That’s What Makes It So Real – Selected Grapplings (2005-2015)
I’ve just published my new e-book, my third. This is the first one that’s not about music at all. This is a selection of my various writings about pro-wrestling. I’ve fallen in and out with the “sport” over the last three decades, but I can’t quite shake my fandom, certainly don’t want to ignore my early […]Archive
August 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
My New EBook: Selected Interviews (Vol. 1)
I’ve just published my new e-book – a selection of some of my favourite interviews. There are new essays and context-notes around each interview and the range of subjects takes in not just musicians but two pro-wrestlers, a filmmaker and a comedian. There are 15 conversations documented from living legends (Joan Baez, Ry Cooder, Mavis […]Archive
June 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Peart Was The World’s Most Overrated Drummer
A few years back I reviewed a Kindle Single, a keen drummer’s list of his Top 30 Drummers. Keen drummers don’t always make the best writers and this book – well it’s a sliver of a book (as is the point of Kindle Singles – seems wrong in this instance to bestow a title like essay) – […]Archive
June 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
My First Ebook: Drummers You Just Can’t Beat
I’ve just made and published my first e-book. It’s available now at that link over at Amazon for a couple of bucks ($3.44 is the NZ rate). It’s comprised of the articles I wrote here under the banner Drummers You Just Can’t Beat and includes some new and edited pieces as well as many of the eulogies […]Archive
July 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Poems
I never knew if my mum ever read my poems. last weekend we caught up briefly. she couldn’t remember the name of the book she’d been reading, nor the author – but she definitely had it – somewhere – on her kindle. “you’d like her”, she said. “she writes all her stories a bit like […]Archive
May 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Fred Stoller: Five Minutes To Kill
Five Minutes To Kill: How The HBO Young Comedians Special Changed The Lives of 1989’s Funniest Comics [Kindle Single] Fred Stoller Amazon Digital Services LLC Fred Stoller returns to the Kindle Single format once again with winning results. Stoller, a character-actor and occasional stand-up is a guy you’ve seen and heard in so many films […]Archive
March 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Roston: Lily Tomlin – The Kindle Singles Interview
Lily Tomlin: The Kindle Singles Interview Tom Roston Amazon Digital Services, Inc. A timely interview, this – for me at least, I’ve been enjoying checking out the start of Grace and Frankie and I loved Grandma, Tomlin’s first lead movie role in over a quarter-century. So here, with another interview for his Kindle Singles series […]Archive
January 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman