“This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is […]
Archives for July 2011
eBook FAQs (Part 2)
July 14, 2011 by 2 Comments
And here, as promised, is the second part of my eBook FAQs. No, no. Try to control your excitement. I know it’s hard… Let us now speak of reading and purchasing eBooks. Do I need an eReader to read an eBook? No. You do not need to read an eBook on an eReader. You can also […]
eBook FAQs (Part 1)
July 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Ever since my book was accepted for publication by Carina Press, a digital first imprint, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about eBooks. Since the questions seem to pop up regularly and from a variety of people, I thought I’d set up a FAQ page. And THEN I thought, “Hey, why not multitask and get a […]
Shadrach’s Tale
July 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Once upon a time, Betsy purchased three little boy zebra finches. She named them Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. She wasn’t trying to be sacreligious, by the way. She just liked the names. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego seemed happy enough. But since they were the latest in a long line of birds of various kinds for Betsy, she […]
Life and Primroses
July 7, 2011 by 4 Comments
The yard at the Palatial Horvath Estate has a rather steep hill in front of the house. In the past, before the hiring of Lawn Boy, this has made it a trifle difficult and unpleasant to mow the lawn. Several years ago, I decided to dig up as much of the hill as I could […]
My Final Take
July 5, 2011 by 6 Comments
Yes, yes. I know everyone is tired of hearing about RWA 2011. But this was kind of a big deal for me, so I thought I could get away with writing one more post about it. I don’t get out much. I wanted to share some of my personal takeaways from the conference. These are […]
