Category: <span>Articles</span>

I started this blog in April 2011.  I have done about 53 posts.  This week I don’t feel like posting anything.  I feel like no-one is reading these, that it’s…

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Summer is coming. No, this isn’t some weird reference to Game of Thrones.  If you run a one-librarian library and have a summer reading program, that sentence can fill you…

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“Sometimes you can’t make it on your own.”-  U2 Help me Many books have a lengthy acknowledgement page.  The author thanks his agent, his first readers, his spouse and people…

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Setting Goals, Marking Deadlines and Re-evaluating I set a goal for myself to finish a rewrite of my novel-in-progress by next Saturday, so that I could have it off my…

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Review of The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick When I first started reading Chris’s self-help book for nerds, I thought, “no! he’s stolen my idea for the Gamer’s Guide for Real…

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Book Review of The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler The premise of this YA book caught my attention.  In 1996, a high school student uses an America…

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Finding Inspiration There are times when staring at a blank page will get you nowhere.  Some times you have to walk around and think, some times you have to put…

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Finding the Right Role Model Role Models are people who have done what you want to do. Picking the right one can provide you with guidance and encouragement.  Picking the…

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Authors need libraries.  I’m saying this as a Librarian, not a published author, so there is a little bias there, but there is so much that public libraries can do…

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“Dancing in the Rain” by my friend Devious Imp.

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