Book Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass
The first of the Teen Reads Challenge titles takes me into the future. It doesn’t say the year but the mention of World Wars that haven’t occurred and the name changes of the States leads me to believe that this…
Terry Pratchett: A Farewell
I’m deeply saddened by the news today that author Terry Pratchett is no longer with us. It was just announced mere hours ago and I received the news as a text from a friend. I quickly opened the browser on…
Are You Thinking Big?
This is a business. This is your business. You are the creator of your business. As professional writers, and we’ve all read this so many times, part of your business and creating your business if the art of changing plans…
Book Review: What If? By Randall Munroe
In the realm of questions there a lot of variables. Questions be close ended with simple yes or no’s for answers. Questions be more complex leading you to check your watch if someone asks you what time is it? Then…
Is There Such A Thing as A Writer’s Brand?
The comment can be made that writers are a bit obsessed with writing, and promoting this writing. what they don’t think about, at least at first is how they are a brand. Writers are creative people by nature and the…
E-Reader review: Kindle or Kobo?
It’s national reading month and what better way to celebrate it than talking about e-readers. I am a bibliophile. Don’t get me wrong I love the feel of an actual novel in my hands. When I am at home I…
Taking Action in Writing
Inertia: is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction. It is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant velocity. There…
Take A Step Back To Improve Your Blog
The art of improvement. With all the self-helps books out there you would think there would be a ‘magic’ button to fix all the blogging woes you might have. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. For a writing blog which you…
