Instagram, born yesterday – October 2010 – , is already a giant, over 200 million users busily sharing pictures in that weird square format typical of antiquated Polaroid photos. When Facebook bought it in April 2012, paying one billion dollars in stock and cash, it knew what it was doing! In 2013, Instagram grew at…
Month: June 2014
What’s Wrong with the UN Security Council
Here’s another article about the UN I wrote for the magazine Impakter under my real name: Claude Forthomme (published on 9 June, 2014) – after all, after 25 years of service in the United Nations, I believe I know a thing or two about it! Enjoy and let me know what you think! What’s…
Ready to self-publish? Don’t rush and here’s why
All the advice I’m giving here is based on my own experience in self-publishing. Be warned, it’s a steep learning curve! You’ll find that you can quickly master the technical aspects of uploading a file on KDP, Amazon’s platform for self-publishing, or on Smashwords to get your book on other e-platforms like Sony, Kobo, the…
A Novel Rejected by Big Publishers Wins a Major Literary Prize
There’s hope for recognition for all of us poor writers… The lesson is: never give up, keep trying! That’s what Irish author Eimar McBride did, she never gave up and this week-end the news came in: she just won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, “A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing”. …
Is Google Plus on its Way Out?
I just published one of my articles on a new cool magazine, Impakter. Here’s the opening: The geeks are convinced of it, Google is about to snuff out Google Plus. The younger generations, the Millenials in particular, consider Google+ a social media disaster. Something totally useless, even laughable. A month ago, Google Plus’ founding father,…
Claude Forthomme 