Writing and Creating Books

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 […]

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John Kremer: 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week: January 8, 2014

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week January 8, 2014 – Business Apprentice Day, Eat It Raw Day, National Bubble Bath Day, and World Literacy Day In this issue . . . – Condé Nast Style Society – Blog Posts and Articles on Marketing Books – Indies Unlimited – Ebook and Kindle Freebie websites […]