by Laura | Sep 30, 2015 | Nonfiction Related, On a Personal Note
I recently enjoyed The Huffington Post’s books and culture writer Claire Fallon’s post, “11 Simple Reasons the Print Book Doomsayers are Wrong.” According to the New York Times, she writes, “print book sales are holding steady in 2015...
by Laura | Sep 15, 2015 | Childfree Interview-Related
As someone who has been tracking and writing about the childfree choice for some years now, I was delighted to hear Kim Cattrall speaking out about it recently on BBC radio. This is not the first time we have heard from her about her choice to have no children. In an...
by Laura | Sep 9, 2015 | Book Publishing Topics
Derek Haines, who runs the blog Just Publishing, has an interesting piece on the future of ebooks. After a brief look at the history of ebooks, he lists four interesting predictions about ebooks in the future. Check it out. Subscription Services Haines points out that...
by Laura | Sep 2, 2015 | Book Publishing Topics, Editing-Writing How To
In traditional book publishing, once you finish writing your book you find an agent who will submit it to publishers, and then you can wait up to several months to find out whether it has been accepted or rejected. Publishers very often employ “first readers” to go...
by Laura | Aug 26, 2015 | Childfree Lifestyles
Staying on the theme of one’s later years – During the last year of journalist and author Francine Russo’s diabetic mother’s life, her aging husband and youngest daughter took care of her. Francine’s sister never asked her to do anything,...
