A Writer’s Blog

  • Is It Wrong to Think of Your Book as a Product?

    Originally posted on CWC – Berkeley Marketing: Guest Post by Brooke Warner As part of a writing group or club, you’re already self-selected as a writer who cares about their craft. You’ve probably taken courses to help improve your writing. You certainly read more than the average person. And it’s probable that you hold out… Read more

  • What parenting method works best?

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The self-esteem boosting, follow your dreams and be happy all the time parenting method that many white parents in America practice. The practice known as tiger parenting as seen in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and/or Anchee Min’s The Cooked Seed—both memoirs. Lylah… Read more

  • Is Rape a Hazard of Military Service?

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: The Associated Press reports, “Sexual assaults in the military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs, according to a new Pentagon report. The report says that of the 1.4… Read more

  • 2013 San Francisco Book Festival Award Winners

    Running with the Enemy by Lloyd Lofthouse was awarded an honorable mention in general fiction at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival. Read more

  • Phillip Jose Farmer’s “Riverworld”

    I discovered that the Sci-Fi channel had produced a television series of Riverworld in 2001, loosely based on the Farmer’s books. Read more

  • “The Bartender’s Tale” by Ivan Doig

    The backroom of the Medicine Lodge offers powerful magic for a 12-year old boy and the girl he loves. Read more