My first tweet wasn’t exactly profound. “Hello world” was all it said. Flavorwire looked up “The First Tweets of 25 Writers We Love” and none of them were actually profound,…Continue readingWhat did your first tweet say?
Gender-specific books demean all our children – or so says Katy Guest, the literary editor of The Independent, and therefore her paper will no longer review anything marketed to exclude…Continue readingNo more boys-only books
No, I get it. ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, and all that. BUT WE DO. It’s the first thing we see, the first aspect of the book that…Continue readingSnarking the Cover
The library is the last, best socialized institution in America today and you’re about to lose it, Democrats Ramshield says at the DailyKos. Library budgets have become low hanging fruit…Continue readingWill you lose your library?
20 books that that really exist And one of them was a best seller. Can you guess which one? Unbelievable books ~~~~~ “…a genuine overlooked treasure” In The Green Man…Continue readingCan you believe these titles?
The third book in my Worldweavers series, ‘Cybermage‘, is out and the cover is awesome. The series, originally published by HarperCollins, is being reissued by Sky Warrior Books. The original…Continue readingThea and Tesla save the world
Exploring the Inner Seasonality of Being Human Maria Popova in Brain Pickings writes that the book of watercolors, “The River”, by Italian Artist Alessandro Sanna is a beautiful reminder that…Continue readingLife, like a river
There may be no soul mates, as Pamela Druckerman muses, there may be no “great love”, there may be no incandescent and transcendent joy – but there is contentment, and…Continue readingWhat did you learn in your 40s?
Krystie Lee Yandoli lists 22 books at Buzzfeed that “you pretend you’ve read but actually haven’t.” The story notes a Guardian survey that suggests that most people lie and say…Continue readingDid you really read it?
My experience with the Rainforest Writers Retreat on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington began last Wednesday when Colleen Anderson drove down from Vancouver, Canada, and picked me up in Bellingham.…Continue readingRetreating into the rainforest