by editor | Apr 21, 2020 | Articles
Resilience: “The ability of a substance or object to spring back easily into shape.” The Oxford English Dictionary could have been describing this year’s Bay Area Book Festival, because that’s exactly what they’re doing. Although the beloved festival only announced...
by editor | Jun 10, 2019 | A Bookish Blog, Articles
Bitcoin Billionaires Ben Mezrich is probably best known for his talent in writing truly engaging nonfiction, and Bitcoin Billionaires is another great addition. Following Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss after their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, we get...
by Joan Lacy | Jul 11, 2018 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
These days there are many people who feel they have a story to tell and want to write a book. If you are one of them and don’t have a clue how to get started, here are five helpful tips to get things rolling. 1. Before everything else, do your homework! There...
by Jo Scott-Coe | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Writer to Writer
When I was a kid, I believed publication certified that a book was good. A place on a library or bookstore shelf, on a classroom desk, implied serious merit, an imprimatur of significance. A lifetime of reading has taught me that publishing doesn’t make a book good at...
by Nancy Springer | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles, Writer to Writer
It must have been around 1980, because I held a new copy of The White Hart, my first published fantasy novel, as I waited in a line that snaked clear out of the art center door and left me shivering in the cold. I also carried an old copy of Where the Wild Things Are,...
by editor | Mar 9, 2018 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Jen J. Danna The questions I get most as an author center around the fact that I write with a partner. I’m certainly not the first author to team up with a partner, but I know that my relationship with Ann is a little different than many writing partnerships. Many...
