Last year, I asked for a Kindle for Christmas–mainly because Kindle is currently dominating the e-reader market, and I wanted to know what my readers are experiencing when they read a book this way.  It makes me feel slightly guilty, especially after my local independent bookstore, Toadstool Bookshop of Milford, Peterborough and Keene, NH, came [...]

I haven’t had time to read a book lately. In fact, it’s probably been a month or so since I last read anything other than what I write and, for me, that’s an awfully long time. So lately, I’ve been thinking about the management of my time, as in, there’s not enough of it, and [...]

Writers take holidays? Is that possible? Some writers write every day, no matter what; some, like me, take time off now and again. The winter holidays (for me Christmas and the New Year) are, for me, a time of genuine vacation, when I visit family who live far away. Except on rare occasions, I do [...]

I’m writing about something that is old news for most of you: resurrecting out-of-print novels and transforming them into ebooks.  I see that NINC has been breaking ground in this area, starting with the conference in 2010 .  While the rest of you were on the beach in St. Pete’s, I was in a cave [...]