Once upon a time, when someone asked me what I did, I would reply that I write. I am a writer and an editor by trade. Recently, however, I have begun to wonder if I need to define myself in a slightly different way, because, really,
Read more →Before you hit the send button along with your credit card number to one of the major self-publishers, let me go over the mistakes I have recently seen in self-published books: One Don’t bold, underline, capitalize, or use HUGE font to make your point. Writers must have
Read more →It isn’t often that we pry ourselves our from under the mounds of books we process in our office each day to take a field trip. Last week, when I received an email from Publicity Coordinator Alyson Pullman with Chronicle Books, saying that they were having a
Read more →By Heidi Komlofske As a child, there were often times that the three of us siblings would come home from school to find pasta noodles piled on top of sheets draped across our couches and our beds. Mom had been making homemade pasta for chicken noodle soup
Read more →By Joseph Arellano The late writer Norman Mailer was known to be a tough guy, and he was also quite a writer having won both of literature’s highest prizes – the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award – for his account of the domestic protests against
Read more →By David Marshall For decades, authors have been playing the branding game. Knowing their next peanut butter sandwich depends on enough readers buying their next book, they’ve carefully put their names “out there” as “top authors.” Today, this means working at all the social networking sites, writing
Read more →Here’s a smattering of books that our reviewers felt were among the best they read in 2011. We’d like to hear what YOUR favorite reads were this year. The Big Juice: Epic Tales of Big Wave Surfing By John Long and Sam George, editors Falcon Guides, $18.95, 301 pages
Read more →By Hubert O’Hearn Right at the moment, I’m actually curious to know why it is that curious has a U in it, whereas curiosity doesn’t. The word must have originated either with or without, so how did the U either get shoved inside like that extra pair
Read more →By Hubert O’Hearn The finest caricature of a reviewer in our times was the assistant Beaker to the scientist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew on The Muppet Show. Beaker only ever expressed one opinion: ‘Me, me me me me!’ Really, let’s be straight with each other, especially if the
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