Publishing an E-book and Kindle
Are you ready to publish an e-book? Before you publish an ebook it makes smart business sense to go to Amazon, and do some keyword searches on what is selling, and how people will find your ebook. Ebooks can be published…
Michael Crichton’s Timeline, and The Relativity of Time
From the author of Jurassic Park…. I’m currently rereading Timeline, published in 1999, by the late Michael Crichton, famous for writing Jurassic Park and the Lost World. (He didn’t write anything remotely resembling Jurassic World or Jurassic Park III, just the…
On Immunity, Eula Biss, or the Invasion of the Microbes
Mark Zuckerberg loves this book. So does Bill Gates. This book caught me by surprise, and I found myself enjoying it a lot. If you like reading something controversial and fantastic, then I strongly recommend On Immunity: An Inoculation, 2014,…
Writers and Using Google Blogger
Why should I use Google Blogger? For many years, Living a Life of Writing has been on the Google Blogger-based platform, and it is serving its purpose, but at this point there is discussion between the writers on this website…
Book Review of Flashhpoints By George Friedman
A new book has just been released by one of the leading voices in the realm of geopolitics, George Friedman. Entitled Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, 2015, Friedman delivers an unusual blend of geopolitical analysis and personal experience to describe the…
On the “Write” Track
The challenge of publishing and why perseverance pays off If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. End of post. Just kidding. But to be honest, sometimes we all need a reminder that persevering will pay off in the…
When You Observe, You’ll Publish Great Things
The best way to judge if you need to improve your online writing is to stop for a moment and look at what you think is good- and what other writers know is good. And what your readers know is…
The Strong Shall Inherit the Earth
In Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, a New York Times bestseller published in 1999, the topic is no less daunting then the evolution of civilizations from the earliest pre-recorded times to the present. The premise is…