It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. ↗
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. ↗
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. ↗
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel. ↗
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. ↗
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗
