Marketing Tips for Authors with A Small Press: How to Market Your Book
Congratulations! A small press has agreed to publish your book. You may have started out with Writer’s Market, and you may have gone to all the big name publishers first, and they may have turned you...
View ArticleSEO for Your Book Title
There was a time when I very innocently believed that the best title would be a title that no one would ever have thought of prior to reading my book. But today with the internet and search engines...
View ArticleDidactic Fiction: Propaganda or Art?
Today I came across this quote in a Facebook posting: ”Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and...
View ArticleWho Should Pay for Waging War?
A Greek and a Persian at warFrom the Wikipedia War is inevitable. In a world where there are separate countries with separate interests, and in which there is international commerce and immigration and...
View ArticleThe Character of Aaron Burr: A Review
This is a review of Roger G. Kennedy’s biographical book, Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character. Kennedy’s is not the sort of book one should read when not familiar with the history of...
View ArticleAn Interview with F.L. Light
Antigone as Translated by F L Light F. L. Light is a poet, translator and dramatist. He is a prolific writer, and Amazon lists 65 of his works. He also writes online, and two of his blogs can be found...
View ArticleIs It For Children?
A Display of Inverted-A Press Books, including some by me As an author, and also as a reader, I have a problem with genre in general. My books do not fit squarely into any given genre, because...
View ArticleThe Art of Conversation
There is an art to brilliant conversation. It is more than each person talking in turn. It is more than showing courtesy to your interlocutor, pausing when needed, and listening just as much as you...
View ArticleBooks Available from Inverted-A Press
Inverted-A Press carries the following Titles: The Portrait of a Lover by John Wheatcroft. A Thousand and One Stories of Pericon de Cadiz Transatlantic Lives by Jesse Bier Theodosia and the Pirates by...
View ArticleIs It Libertarian if it Features Rebellion Against Government?
Lately I have noticed people making lists of Libertarian movies and books to recommend to their non-libertarian friends. Among these such classics as 1984 and the Star Wars franchise, as well as...
View ArticleThe Corporate Entity
[This was first published on Hubpages and later de-indexed.] This is a chapter from a novel that I completed writing in 1983 and self-published in 1985. Was it a good novel? I’m certainly not in the...
View ArticleA Comparative Review of “Someday, Someday, Maybe”
This is going to be not so much a review, but a sort of free association starting with the fact that I just finished reading Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham. Did I like the book? Yes. Was it...
View ArticleHerbs of the Sun, Moon and Planets is a new title in the Pagan Portals series
Herbs of the Sun, Moon and Planets is a new book in the Pagan Portals series, published by Moon Books. In it I look in some depth at the subject of how culinary and medicinal herbs were once given...
View ArticleBook Toy Combo as Christmas Gifts
Book Toy Combo as Christmas Gifts [Updated from November 27, 2010 version. First published on Hubpages.] When I was a little girl, I received a lot of presents from family and friends of my parents....
View ArticleHow to Read My Books
You can read my books any way you like, in any order you like. It would be incredibly conceited and unrealistic of me to think I can tell you which way to read my books. But occasionally I meet a...
View ArticleThe Parents Behind the Relationship
http://www.pubwages.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ParentsBehind.mp3 This cartoon from the New Yorker, posted on Facebook by a friend, and shared by the Vacuum County fan page had a caption saying:...
View ArticleRemembering Amnon Katz
My father, Amnon Katz, died seventeen years ago today. It was October 3, 2000. His helicopter crashed and he was killed instantly. There were no other people on board. It was an experimental helicopter...
View ArticleModeling the Audible Vacuum County Shirt
I am not really comfortable modeling clothes. Julia Hanna did a much better job showing the Vacuum County T-shirt to full advantage. But this is the Audible Vacuum County T-shirt. So far, I think I am...
View ArticleThe Meaning of The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling
This is a copy from my personal edition of Kipling’s verse Last night, on my “Fans of Rudyard Kipling” fan page on Facebook, I had a message from a fan of Kipling’s poetry who lives in India. “Sir,...
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