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How to Publicize your Book: Getting Started

Many would-be nonfiction authors make the mistake of not beginning to think about publicity for their book until after they have written it....

John Lennon, Literary Quipster

by Barbara Alexandra Szerlip

Recently, I watched tapes of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's appearances on the Dick Cavett Show.The first one, on September 11,...

Saturday thoughts

by Heather B Koelle

I awoke to a beautiful sunny day today,after finally getting a decent night's sleep.Enjoyed a solo yoga class today,as nobody else showed up.My...

Metro

by beverley bie brahic

This morning early I went to the Cité Universitaire for Helene Cixous's seminar, cutting through the Luxembourg Garden on my way to the...

Reading the World

by J.P. Smith

As I get older I find that I read less and less contemporary fiction and either go to older works I’d overlooked or...

Nanowrimo once more . . .

by Lisa Frankfort

It's just a wee bit embarrassing to be the San Francisco Municipal Liaison and be THIS far off the intended word count. How...

Books can open the mind and free...

by Linda A Scott

To read or have someone read to you is a warm bonding experience. Much can be shared in a short period of time,...

Madeline DeFrees Celebration - Poetry and Grace...

by Susan Rich

I love looking at these photographs as they remind me what a perfect evening we all had. Since I almost never take photographs,...

The Tow of Chew (Peace)

by Linda A Scott

Chewy was a great dog, he new who and what he was. He was a pure shih tzu, never fixed. As a...

The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro...

by Gina Collia-Suzuki

My third book has just been released; all 612 pages of it. 'The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: A Descriptive Catalogue' is...

From the Mail Bag

by Michael Thomas Ford

For some reason Mondays bring the most reader mail. I don't know if it's because people have more time over the weekend and...

Stories Change Lives

by Eugenia Kim

The North Korean capture and Clinton-assisted release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee brought a compelling human element into a conflict that...

Writing about Korea

by Jessica Barksdale Inclan

My son is completing a course he devised with a teacher about the Korean War. I have just finished reading a good portion...

we live in a really hateful world

by Amira M. Nagati

We live in a really hateful world,Priests and Sheikhs lashing out at each other and are torn apart from within,And in the process, God...

Best microscopic life photos of 2008

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Writers Unite, or Why I'm Tired of...

by Sue Guiney

I woke up this morning, looked at my diary, and it clearly said "write blog." I knew exactly what I was going to...

Erika Mailman Influences: Someone once said all authors are reinventing the books they read when they were in fifth grade. For me, that's true to a large extent. I was a voracious bookworm...