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What Readers Want vs What Writers Must Do

You can see, right above the title of this post, what this blog is “about”. And, you can definitely help me decide the balance of those three broad topics by taking a brief survey… Today, I’ll write about Readers (and their Relationship with Writers). What do Readers want? That’s a question writers are asked to […]

A Recipe for Creativity

The three main topics of this blog, Reading, Writing, and Publishing, are done by three types of people, Readers, Writers, and Publishers—real obvious, eh? Also, there are many folk who do two of those things and even a growing group of people who regularly do all three. The point of this post? All three activities […]

The Corporate Education of Children

Here we are at Friday and another in the continuing series of posts with Behind The Scenes information about my short novel Notes from An Alien. This post does have some spoilers in it so, if you hate spoilers, just grab a free copy of the book and take the time to read its 96 […]

Stressed Out ?

Since my main goal here is, still, exploring Reading, Writing, and Publishing (take the survey to change my mind), I’ll say there is no favoritism in the eyes of Stress—Readers, Writers, and Publishers are all visited by this challenging Friend… Friend?? I’ll help you understand that in just a bit… By the way, if Readers, […]

“The Fog of Religious Conflict”

Religion is not often discussed with rationality. There’s a quote in the article I’m going to share that gives an eloquent reason: “Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people […]

Help! I’ve Been Scammed!!

It appears that, just as big banking can get away with anything they do, so can big publishing. Consider this answer to a comment on David Gaughran‘s blog [bolding by me]: “…Author Solutions has proved to be an expert at creating a veneer of legitimacy. Appearing at literary festivals…is just one small aspect of that […]

“Who Says Words with My Mouth”

I want to ask you a favor… A favor you can do for yourself… I’m asking anyone reading this post; but, especially, the writers (active or potential writers)… Ponder the title of this post for a few minutes, then write down what you feel it means… ……… OK, I’ll venture to say that what you […]

The Earliest Days of A World Government

Friday again—Behind The Scenes of Notes from An Alien again :-) And, again, I encourage you to ask Any questions about the book in the Comments of Any of these Friday posts. But what if you’ve never read the book? —> Grab a Free Copy :-) Some folks may feel today’s post has spoilers because […]

The Happiest Writer/Illustrator I Know

Let’s start with an image of this woman: I used to work as an events manager for a place that catered to writers in the virtual world, Second Life. That’s where I met Debbie. I certainly still spend time in Second Life, with writers, but I haven’t seen this woman, virtually, for quite some time… […]

Some Ways To Use Project Gutenberg You May Not Have Discovered

First, a reminder that our latest survey is still active. Let me know what YOU would like to see on this blog :-) Now, from the site Ebook Friendly: “World’s first ebook ever, created by the founder of Project Gutenberg Michael S. Hart, was officially added to the catalog in December 1971 – and, obviously, […]