Author, Blogger, Book Designer
I released my first e-book yesterday. As usual, the launch itself was anti-climactic. After months of research, weeks of design, days of testing and hours of i-dotting and t-crossing, I clicked on a few last buttons ... and voila, my e-book was live on Amazon. I'd planned to tell the whole world about it -- [...]
In many ways, social media is the great liberator of our times: an inter-connection between humans around the globe; a way to rage against the machine; the power tool of all power tools for shaping a new age of true democracy. The problem is that much of what we read online is propaganda. Inaccurate memes that scatter like [...]
I have to stop reading masterpieces. No, that would be silly. I just need to remember that each author's masterpiece is their own unique creation, and that I am not John Irvine or Anthony Doerr ... or Lawrence Hill. All of these men wrote what I would consider "masterpieces", yet my three recent reads from [...]
Mark of Words 