If you are passionate about writing a book, or about having written a book, then the book becomes one of the most important things you’ll ever do. Author or writer success is not about becoming well-known or signing contracts or selling books; it’s about creating a written work that expresses what you had inside you that needed to be said. I’ve worked with dozens of …(there’s more) Continue reading
If you expend energy and money on a talented, professional ghostwriter to make your book shine, you must have a reason. Ghostwriters — good ghosts, skilled ghostwriters, don’t come cheap. Writing a book is never quick or easy. My company just failed on a ghostwriting project and the moral of the story is, the author pimped herself trying to micromanage. She had no experience. No …(there’s more) Continue reading
11/22/63 by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars 11/22/63 is a better read than many of King’s middle-era works, but it should have been edited to 50%. The plot, which revolves around a time-traveler’s hope to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination, rambles all over. The read feels like Mr. King had like five books in his head that he had to get out …(there’s more) Continue reading
Pinterest popped up in March 2010 and has become the third most popular social media site. Check that! Pinterest is ahead of Google+, StumbleUpon, and all other social media save Twitter and Facebook — and Pinterest is gaining on them. A 30 year-old ex-Google employee from West Des Moines, Iowa spawned this wonder. Ben Silbermann is his name and now he’s a guru. I went over to …(there’s more) Continue reading
I’ve been hand-to-hand wrestling with the online e-publishing industry searching for a way to help my fellow writers and authors. I’m hot on the trail with a new tool called Pressbooks, brought to us by Hugh McGuire, a serial web entrepreneur. He writes for O’Reilly Radar (O’Reilly Media is one of my favorite companies on earth). He founded LibriVox and Book Oven, among other book-centric web …(there’s more) Continue reading
