FOWC with Fandango — Forthright When a man is forthright, he is energetic and ambitious. He gets a lot of slaps on the back and with a tidbit of luck, he winds up running the place. Or a piece of it,… Read More ›
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MINIMALIST PUBLISHING – Marilyn Armstrong
Why do publishers ONLY publish potential best-sellers? Many books we read from in those old days were not wildly popular. Publishers understood a good book deserved publication, even if it wouldn’t be a bestseller. Our literature would be a very… Read More ›
Blurbs
The other day I had to write a couple of blurbs. It was a job – as in paying. Really. Try not to fall out of your chair. (No blog readers were harmed in the writing of this post.) Along… Read More ›
The Far Arena, by Richard Ben Sapir – Roman Ways In Modern Days
The Far Arena by Richard Ben Sapir I just bought a used copy of this long out-of-print book. I first read it when it was released in 1978. I was working at Doubleday as a book club editor. It fell to… Read More ›
Turning your life around
The purpose of a cliché is to make creative thought unnecessary. Television and Hollywood are cliché driven. How could scripts be cranked out without clichés? When I worked at Doubleday, we used to post (in those days, “posting” meant putting… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: My Favorite People, Weird Things and Kismet
How long were we apart? How long. An eternity? Or so it seems. Sometimes it feels like a strange dream I had as it fades in memory and so few people remember the places we lived or the language we… Read More ›
My Empty Bucket
WordPress suggested we write about the 11th item on our bucket list. The subject alarmed me. I don’t have a bucket list. I’ve never had a bucket list. Until the movie of the same name came out in 2007, I’d never… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 