The Stand by Stephen King I’m still having a mad fling with fiction, but the number of books I’ve read have sharply declined for two reasons. The first is that we’ve (finally) started renovating, and that is eating up humungous amounts of time, both spare and not-so-spare. I’ll be writing more about that in another […]
What I’m Reading – July 14, 2014 Read More »
I’m always interested in exploring new reading software and applications. Developers are improving them all the time. I have several personal criteria against which I rate the various apps: 1) Ease of reading books – does the screen look pretty? 2) Sorting and categorizing – does the program let you sort the books on your
Great eReader for Android Devices Read More »
I’ve written at least two posts for this blog dealing with ebooks and print books (“Advantages And Drawbacks Of Both Paper And Pixel Books” and “E-book Reading 101 – Part A”), and both of them are a bit old now. I’ve stayed away from the print v’s ebook discussion for quite a while, primarily because
Paper versus Pixels – A Very Personal Take Read More »
Oh, I’ve been having so much fun with my reading, lately. Fiction. Tons of it. I’ve been wallowing in stories. Weeah! Getting Things Done David Allen And right out of the gate, I’m a big fat liar. This is non-fiction. But considering that the vast majority of what I usually read is non-fiction, how-tos and
What I’m Reading – June 14, 2014 Read More »
I’m right into the thick of plotting and building a really big novel. Consequently, there are a lot of non-fiction research titles plugging up my readers. Let’s see: A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? Jonathan Clements This is a great book for research, because it skims over
What I’m Reading – May 16, 2014 Read More »
Finding time to read doesn’t sound like it should be a major issue. You read when you get time, right? It’s supposed to be a pleasureable past time, so you’ll do it when you can and enjoy the moments. But if you’ve got a huge backlog of books you want to read (or worse, sitting
4 Ways to Whittle Your TBR Pile Down FAST! Read More »
I usually have a dozen books on the go, flipping between fiction and non-fiction and yet more non-fiction on other readers. In the last week that has come to a grinding halt, surprising the crap out of mildly-OCD me. What happened? Two things. Number one I bought a Brian Tracy book on Amazon, who offered
What I’m Reading – A Very Nice Surprise Read More »
No, there’s nothing illegal in what I’m about to tell you. The ideas I’m about to give you are all freely available and better still, free. Every time I run a free promo of one of my titles, I get at least one email demanding to know why I’m not offering the book for free
How to Read My Amazon-only Books Anywhere – No Kindle Needed Read More »
Oh, I’m so scrapped for reading time right now, it’s embarrassing. I had lunch with another author yesterday and she asked me what I was reading right now. I couldn’t think of a single title! I get to read maybe a screen’s worth before I fall asleep at night. But let’s see what I’ve got
What I’m Reading – March 15, 2013 Read More »
This was going to be a simple Mash post, but it ended up I had so much to say about AuthorEarnings.com, I turned it into a dedicated post just on the tornado that is ripping through the publishing world. A few weeks ago, super-sonically successful indie author Hugh Howey (author of Wool, amongst others) launched a
The Shot Heard Around the Publishing World Read More »