• Do you want to support Indie Bookstores?

    Why am I suggesting we all take the Kobo pledge?

  • A New World of Publishing

    Many of today’s authors have no idea how important it is to learn all you can to understand how challenging it is to attract an audience in addition to the dangers that can destroy an author’s career.

  • 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 the dream of publishing on…

  • 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 M. Alphonse, Senior Editor of…

  • 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 million active duty personnel, 6.1…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • “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.

  • Ginmar: alleged Cyber Bully, Troll and Stalker? Part 4/4

    Ginmar says, “I don’t have patience for assholes, of whom I’ve encountered rather a lot lately.”

  • Ginmar: alleged Cyber Bully, Troll and Stalker? Part 3/4

    Ginmar says: “Some authors have been having temper tantrums over bad reviews and now they’re stalking reviewers.”