by Laura | May 16, 2014 | Childfree Book-Related
In author J.O. Raber’s words, Famous – But No Children “is about people who have made an important difference because they were more oriented toward making that difference than toward living the conventional life of rearing children. This is not to say that people...
by Laura | May 5, 2014 | Book Publishing Topics
Ever thought about writing a memoir? A client of mine who is in the midst of writing a memoir passed on this insightful interview excerpt with Salman Rushdie at Emory University in 2011. He explains why the best of memoirs employ the novelistic technique. Check it...
by Laura | Apr 24, 2014 | Book Related - General
With all the happiness studies out there (for example, recall the all the hubbub about who’s happier, parents or the childfree?), here’s a new one related to book lovers – more specifically library goers. Check this out. NPR Books News by Annalisa Quinn has an...
by Laura | Apr 11, 2014 | Editing-Writing How To
Editing means going through a document and catching and correcting errors, right? Wrong. Editor extraordinaire Renni Brown (she has been editing for 50 years) does a great breakdown of the three different kinds of editing services: Developmental Editing This is...
by Laura | Mar 24, 2014 | Nonfiction Related
I recently made the acquaintance of population expert Kurt Dahl. He has written an interesting essay about Dan Brown’s book, Inferno. While a novel, it deals with the very real issue of overpopulation. In the book Brown has an “antagonist execute a...
