Contributor

Mark Thwaite

Mark Thwaite is the founder and managing editor of the UK-based literary website ReadySteadyBook, described by The Times as "one of the best places on the web for clever, wise, sparky book-related discussions and reviews." His opinions are his own and not those of his employer!


Mark is also the digital marketing manager of the award-winning Quercus Books and MacLehose Press.


Mark was named as one of the Hospital Club 100 -- a list of the most influential people in the creative industries -- in both 2008 and 2009, and he was also recently listed as one of The Bookseller's 100 most influential people of 2009.


Mark's articles and reviews have appeared in, amongst other places, the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, The Bookseller, Context, Hesperus Magazine, Ink magazine, Crime Time, Perspectives, PN Review, the Poetry Foundation Journal, Amazon.com and, of course, on ReadySteadyBook where he is the principal contributor and where he writes the popular ReadySteadyBlog. He has also written for the Sunday Times and the Independent.


Mark regularly gives talks on blogging, internet retailing and marketing, books and writing.


A librarian by profession, Mark has been working on the internet for about fifteen years (for Amazon.co.uk, then for The Book Depository, and now for Quercus. He is available for public speaking, general advice about writing, tweeting, blogging and book-marketing and, of course, for freelance writing projects.


Mark has been interviewed online by Scarecrow and by bloggasm.

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Homepage: http://www.readysteadybook.com/

Serendipoetry

The Quarrel

The word I spoke in anger
weighs less than a parsley seed,
but a road runs through it
that leads to my grave,
that bought-and-paid-for lot
on a salt-sprayed hill in Truro
where the scrub pines
overlook the bay.
Half-way I'm dead enough,
strayed from my own nature
and my fierce hold on life.
If I could cry, I'd cry,
but I'm too old to be
anybody's child.
Liebchen,
with whom should I quarrel
except in the hiss of love,
that harsh, irregular flame?

-- Stanley Kunitz
The Collected Poems (W.W.Norton)

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