MEMERY
Social media have spawned a new kind of imagery: memes; that is, slogans or statements or questions printed on pictures, the latter either static or part of a video that…
IMAGINE THE FUTURE
Perhaps one of the most difficult things to do is to imagine the future. We tend to project the past and the present day into tomorrow and beyond, assuming little…
KILLING OFF A CHARACTER
In a whodunit, somebody dies. It comes as no surprise and is expected, given the genre. But what of a beloved character such as the hero long established in a…
VACATIONS
Do novelists ever take time off? Even a trip abroad or a relaxing cruise is an opportunity to gather impressions and images, cultural and historical information, a feel for the…
REDESIGNING WOMAN
Design of a website is considered critical to discovery by readers. If that is true, is changing the design occasionally worthwhile? Will readers who happen upon the site be more…
Techno-marvels or Total Control?
How many people think that simply talking to their computer to order it to perform a task is the cat's meow? How many consider an app that writes their reports…
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…
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