About

I’m Andrew Chapman, incorrigible generalist and professional writer, editor and designer based in Oxford, UK. I also create/compile puzzles and invent online tools, quizzes and other creative whimsies (see below). At this site you can read my occasional blog and see details of my publications and other work. You’re welcome to contact me to discuss ideas or commissions! Also, do follow me (@hatmandu) on Twitter.

Projects

• NEW! (December 2009) Try my text content and keyword analysis tool
• NEW! (April 2009) Try my Twitter personality test (also provides tweeting tips), Twanalyst.com
• NEW! (May 2009) Research project about formal constraints, rules of thumb etc for helping decision-making more fun, aiding creativity and more: Feweristics.com
• Writer? Try the Headline and Title Phrase Generator
• Try out my Consumer Spending Comparison Tool – are you a spendthrift or a miser?
• Blogger? Try out my Blogalyser (analyses your writing style) or the LiveJournal personality test
• Cruciverbalist? I’m posting a cryptic crossword clue (all previously published) every day at Twitter/clueaday – answers posted on the following day. (From #100 these are archived here.)

Websites

Other websites I run or co-run include:

• What Should I Read Next? – a leading book recommendation site(4,000,000 visits and counting)
• Who Should You Vote For? – the world’s original election decision quiz, used for the UK in 2005 and the US in 2008
• Qurl – a powerful URL-shortening service which allows you to track clickthroughs
• The new genealogy search engine Geneally (working, but still in development)
• The site for Oxford’s new fringe arts festival, Oxfringe, which I co-founded in 2007
• The small press reverb, which I co-founded in 2005
• Blind Atlas – a collaborative site featuring stories of fictional ‘invisible cities’, inspired by Italo Calvino (er, site down at the moment)