Yeah, so I cribbed that off Doctor Who but you know unfortunately it’s true.

Bookrater.co.uk was always a bit of an experiment and it’s just going to require too much time to get the thing off the ground with the number of bloggers I have right now (i.e. me and Abbi). It wasn’t an easy decision (I’m stubborn).

It was being asked – with the best of intentions – if I’d finished either of the two novel length projects I have on the go, and having to answer no,  that really brought home how thinly I am spreading myself. Something’s got to give and while I still have to pay a mortgage it’s going to have to be some of the stuff that isn’t fiction.

Here’s how it breaks down:

– bookrater.co.uk will stay up and I am not giving up the domain. I intend to do something with this eventually, now is not the best time.
– Reviews already on there will stay (I’ll post a full list later today or tomorrow).
– New book reviews (from me) will appear on here as before.

So why am I putting reviews back on The Other Side of the River?

1. I quite like reviewing to help me process what I’ve just read and they really were popular features when they ran on this blog (hence why I launched bookrater.co.uk).
2. As I mentioned in the digital 101 series of posts, frequency of posting and reliability of content is important to building an audience online. You can get there posting infrequently but it takes a long time. I already have an audience right here and more people will see the posts.
3. Also, this blog has a *coughs* less formal style that makes it easier to bang out quick reviews. On bookrater.co.uk I found myself trending more towards essays and this made it a time sink.

But, you point out, dude, you’d have more time if you just stop twittering?!

Yes, and that’s why I am time-boxing my time on twitter.  At least until the current project backlog is cleared. However, bear in mind it doesn’t take long to create 140 character tweet and I tend to view my twitter stream as being for fun and information.

Anyway, I just thought you should know.