Writing and Creating Books
The Joy of Publishing: How to Know If a Book Is Good
Would you like a quick way to decide if a book is good? Sometimes when you get so many books to read, look at, review, or provide testimonials for, you might have to follow the simple method used by the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski to decide which books are worthy of your attention. Because […]
First Lines in Books Draw the Reader In: Make Them Great
In a review of Alice Sebold’s new novel The Almost Moon, the reviewer quoted the first lines of her new novel and then quoted the first lines from her previous novel, The Lovely Bones, as well. In her first novel, The Lovely Bones, it took Alice two lines to kill off the heroine: “My name was […]
Ebook Advertisements: Video Reveals 7 Ways to Feature Ads in eBooks
Advertisements are here for ebooks, especially with Amazon’s announcement of the new Kindle with Special Offers (ads) for a lower price. If you are selling your ebooks for a low price or giving them away, one way to recoup some costs is to feature advertisements inside your ebooks. Here are seven ways to do that. […]
Waterfall: A Prose Poem by John Kremer
A few years ago, one of my Google alerts (for my name: John Kremer) sent me to Yahoo Answers where I discovered a student wanting some answers for an English test. Here are two of the questions from that test: Which poem utilizes the poetic devices of imagery and rhythm? A) John Kremer’s “Waterfall” B) […]