Writing and Creating Books

Are You Aiming Too Low in Your Book Marketing?

If nobody laughs at your dreams, you are probably aiming too low. — Art Jonak I found this photo originally in my Facebook feed. When I shared it, I made an additional comment I think is worth sharing with all book authors: If you don’t laugh at your own dreams, at least some of the time, […]

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Andy Rooney on Cookbooks and Diet Books

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. — Andy Rooney The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. Click To […]

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Carl Sagan: What an Astonishing Thing a Book Is

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly […]

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Spelling Rules: I Before E, Except . . .

Spelling rules work most of the time, except for the thousands of exceptions. For example: I before E, except when you get eight receipts for a sleight heist from a feisty weird beige foreign neighbor. Case closed. Don’t you just love English spelling? And here’s a variation based on the names of a few Facebook commentators: I […]