LIFE CHANGING READS
Once in a while, you come across something so profound you can never be quite the same after reading it. Such a book is The New Blueprint For Humanity found…
Unsavory SPAM
Even blocking some words, these days, fails to filter all the smut turning up in email inboxes and typed into comments sections of websites. The juvenile attempts to seduce one…
Foreign Lingo Blues
Preparing translations? Easy enough if you are fluent in the language, not so much if you aren't. Each format of a book―PDF, digital, or printed―has its own style and requirements.…
Right-to-Left Reading
If you thought publishing in English could make you crazy, try right-to-left script books! Hebrew and Japanese are among the languages written from right to left. They are also read…
DIY Book Covers
Most people contract out their book-cover designs, either to custom designers or to companies like SelfPubBookCovers that offer a variety of pre-made cover images to be modified with the buyer's…
Digital World
Do we need barcodes? ISBN's? Digital identity? Not so long ago, identity papers were literally made of paper, not plastic much less 1's and 0's in cyberspace. There were no…
Writer’s Lifestyle
There are many advantages to being a writer: having a creative outlet, learning all manner of interesting facts while doing the research for a project, exploring one's own mind and…
What’s the point?
When you think about it, the majority of Romance tales are fables expressing a lesson. Most stories, by my observation, show the angst and problems that occur without clear communication.…
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau. Virtually everyone has heard of him and his book Walden. But how many have read it? And how many have read his influential treatise Civil Disobedience? I…
Triple Treats
A Night in Paradise by Heather Graham is full of laugh-out-loud moments about a pair of octogenarians who meet in a convalescent home and decide to marry. One mistaken assumption…