As we get further and further into the world of self-publishing and small publishers, more and more typos are going to be showing up in books. These aren’t missed typed words, but rather a missing letter or word that screws up the sentence. I’m sure you all know what I mean: . . . → Read More: The Curse of The Typos
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How do you know what book to read? There are so many books out there these days, many coming from small, independent publishing companies, that readers are being overwhelmed with options. But readers aren’t aware of how their book buying dollars are being influenced. A new trend for many new books is to . . . → Read More: Who’s Influencing Your Next Read? In the book world, concern that Amazon will control the e-book market with the Kindle is waning. Barnes & Noble and Apple are both fighting back. Barnes &Noble launched their eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks) which now offers books that can be read on a variety of platform including Windows and Mac computers, the iPhone, . . . → Read More: Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore There used to be only one way to get a book printed. You had the printer set up the book, then you had it printed using offset printing. All of the books needed to be paid for at the time of the printing and stored afterwards. With print runs ranging in the . . . → Read More: Print On Demand is Transforming Publishing According to Rumer Godden, we live in a house of four rooms: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual. In thinking about this, I know that I have friends and acquaintances who are always analyzing things – the mental room; always dragged down by worrying about things – the emotional room; or looking to the spiritual for help . . . → Read More: What Room Do You Live In? I have been doing all of the things that everyone needs me to do, but none of the things that I need to do. How often do we women, especially mothers, get into that mode? We let other’s needs take control of our lives. In fact, we do it even when those we help aren’t expecting . . . → Read More: Always a Mother I need someone who has the time and money to go to the offices of all of my representatives and lobby for what I need. I can’t do it. I’m caught between trying to make a living, taking care of my kids, at least financially, and taking care of my parents as their mental and physical . . . → Read More: I Need a Special Interest Group It is time for change. Our finances are a mess and most of us are lost and confused about how to move forward. We thought we were living in this wonderful world that allowed us a certain amount of irresponsibility. The ability to spend money we didn’t have and somehow know that there would be a way . . . → Read More: Our Finances Happiness and reaching for a goal — are these two ideas compatible? Or as human beings do we require a goal, and if we do, is it because we are dissatisfied with the way things are in our lives? This idea has been questioned for years, maybe even centuries. “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” says . . . → Read More: Contentment vs. Perseverance My phone is out. I spilled water down the wall with the phone jack on it, and now my phone doesn’t work. Luckily, my internet’s still working, and I have my cell phone, so I don’t really have to do anything right now. I’m going to wait to see if the water evaporates and solves that . . . → Read More: My ‘To Do’ List |
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