Publisher Bankruptcy

Disclaimer. I am a lawyer under my real name, but I don’t practice bankruptcy (although I did practice creditor’s rights at one time and thus have a general understanding of the BK process and rights to assets) and I probably don’t practice in your state. By reading this, there is no attorney client [...]

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Using psychology to deepen your writing

I’ve long been fascinated by psychology and what it has to say about the possible variations in human behavior. I considered a double-major in psychology while I was in college but eventually decided to pursue other interests instead. Still, I explored many texts on the subject, and I would often consult those texts when writing [...]

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Judge Roy L. Pearson finally gets what he deserves

The outrageous case of the Judge suing Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung, and Ki Y over a pair of supposedly lost pants has come to an end. For once, a person in the wrong manipulating the law has gotten just what is deserved. Pearson will not receive a penny of the $54 million for which [...]

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Ask and Ye Shall Recieve…

Last Tuesday I was googling, yahooing, hakiing and dogpiling websites and blogs of other writers. I realize there is a sea of writers and I wanted to find a way to set myself apart. To be an apple in a sea of oranges so to speak.
I ran across a very well-known author’s site and perused [...]

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The Right Time to Release Your Book

by Clary Lopez, author of Simplicity – Richness of Life
You’ve probably worked months or years on your manuscript. Writing a book is not just a matter of getting your thoughts on paper, it is the urgency to communicate your message to the world. But once you’ve finished the work of writing comes the revising time [...]

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Where do YOU find inspiration for the next book?

I’ve been toying with several ideas and themes for my next book and think I have finally found it. Sometimes I have to be alone and thinking about what I like to read, what holds my attention and moves me. But for some reason, lately it has been taking me longer to do [...]

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Reviewer Magazine Highlights The Thief Maker

 
The Thief Maker A Novel by D.H. Schleicher (iUniverse Press)
Review by Kent Manthie for Reviewer Magazine
It’s been said that the events of September 11, 2001 forever altered America in profound ways as well as the individual psyches of its people. Most Americans, but especially those who were directly affected, can chart their lives as “before [...]

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Writers from across the blogosphere: The Writers’ Block Carnival

Welcome to the June 12, 2007 edition of writers from across the blogosphere.

Neela Menon presents Well Done, Director! posted at One Hundred Years of Solitude, saying, “This is a collection of intensely personal notes from the diary of an artist, meant for the flames in her winter home. But so much water has flown under [...]

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Why are HR Employees so Mean?

For those living outside the Tennessee area, a story ran on the news last night where a woman was in tears because she wanted to donate a kidney to a family member who will die without the donation.
It appears that she is a perfect match according to her cousin’s doctors and she began taking the [...]

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Five First-Person Narrators

I just finished Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices by Jodi Picoult. Miss Snark praised her, I’ve seen her name everywhere, she writes both young-adult and adult fiction, so I grabbed this one. It was good, interesting for me from a craft sense, but somehow unsatisfying. Is this women’s fiction? I [...]

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