About

Hello, I'm Darren Turpin. As of January 2009 I'm the Digital Marketing Manager for the Little, Brown Book Group, where I run a number of imprint websites (Orbitbooks.net, Virago.co.uk and Piatkus.co.uk as well as LittleBrown.co.uk) and an ever-increasing number of author homepages and promo websites for individual titles.

This is my random blogging-about-genre-stuff blog. It'll probably end up containing links out to stuff I find interesting in a genre-fiction-y kinda way, as well as (maybe) the occasional book / graphic novel / movie review. It was on hiatus from May 2008 through to December 2008, and all the old (pre-December 2008) content has been placed in the Vault category until I decide what to do with it…

You can follow The Genre Files on Twitter, should you feel that way inclined:

I also blog about beer (along with three other beery blokes) at www.blogobeer.com and about books, marketing and personal productivity at www.bookmarketology.com. At some point I'm hoping on revitalising my personal (music, food & drink, cookery, gardening) etc. blog as well. Busy, busy…

If you want to get in touch with me for any reason, feel free to send an email to:

darren {at} thegenrefiles {dot} com

Remember to convert the vaguely anti-spam characters etc. Sorry about that, but you'll understand the need to at least try to thwart the spam-harvesting bots, I'm sure.

Alternatively, please feel free to leave comments on any items that you feel are comment-worthy.

[last updated 27.03.09]