Tips, tricks and hacks for readers, to make your reading life easier. Plus news and gossip.
I thought I’d try something a bit different for a bit. There’s quite a few writers I know who write “in public” — they post what they produce on their blogs, for readers to react to. Wattpad is the grand collective of this idea. For writers who are unsure of their craft, or for the […]
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I don’t know about you, but I use Wikipedia all the freaking time. It’s great for quick fact checks, it never out-dates* like a printed encyclopedia would, and it always scratches my rather large and eclectic curiousity. So when I tripped over the fact that it was International Wikipedia Day today, I just had to give the
Today is–Get This–International Wikipedia Day Read More »
This painting is simply amazing. [link] Not only is it an incredible canvas of many famous people gathered together in a sort of celebrity Where’s Waldo?, but when you hover your mouse over any individual — and some of the objects in the painting, too — you get a tag telling you who they are. Click
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Today is national Braille day and I thought it would be appropriate to acknowledge Braille, as for nearly a hundred years it has provided blind people with a way to read. Braille was invented in 1824 by Louise Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight when he was a child. He built Braille to suit
National Braille Day Read More »
I tripped over this site a few weeks ago and bookmarked it as something to check out when I had time. Hollow laugh. So, even though I haven’t yet looked into the site, or assessed the quality of the fiction they offer, I thought I would draw your attention to it anyway. Serial Box offers
A Different Sort of Fiction Read More »
I thought the passing of Carrie Fisher was really the topper of the year, but no — her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed the very next day. Well before Carrie Fisher’s death, people were already saying what a horrible year 2016 had been for unexpected deaths of celebrities, unexpected political outcomes, depressed sales, and much more. My
The GOOD Things About 2016 Read More »
There are many images of trees in snow out there, but I particularly like this one because it was taken in my home province of Alberta. For those of you celebrating Christmas, I offer yuletide greetings. For everyone else taking a very welcome break from work, enjoy! If you’re in a country that doesn’t recognize
At least a couple of years ago, a reader — let’s call her Sue — contacted me and asked in fairly demanding tones why I didn’t offer all my books as audiobooks. I politely replied that it was an expensive undertaking for indie authors, although producing audiobooks was on my list of things to do. (It
Audiobooks – The Great Dilemma Read More »
Amazon is always innovating, but this one left me a little wide-eyed. If they franchise this, it will revolutionize shopping in brick and mortar stores. It would make shopping for books very dangerous indeed. (It’s already high risk — that one-click button is a freaking disaster!) (…and I would have put the cake back.)