When you turn to the first page of Karen White’s latest novel THE GUESTS ON SOUTH BATTERY it is like turning a doorknob and entering a stately home in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a warm, inviting sense of hospitality that makes you know your visit is going to be a heartfelt and entertaining experience. […]
“Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as ‘human computers’ used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some […]
The complaints seem to fall into two categories: his views are repellent and shouldn’t be “supported” by a major publishing firm, and by giving him that much money, the publisher is depriving “more deserving authors” of money and publicity.
But week to week, I didn’t think about them as much as my journalism clients, simply because the latter took up so much of my time, energy, and focus. With this understanding, I was able to make decisions about how to market myself and how I wanted to reallocate my time. In other words, the […]
Kerry Egan has written a book that only she could write, combining her study at Harvard Divinity School, her years of experience as a hospice chaplain, and several unfortunate years prior, during which her life was hijacked by post-partum psychosis, caused by a reaction to anesthesia used during an emergency C-section. For much of her […]
I have nothing against people who want to self-publish, especially if they’re elderly. Perhaps they want to write their life story and have no time to learn how to write well enough to be published traditionally. It makes a great gift for their grandchildren. But self-publishing needs to be labelled as such. The only similarity […]
Ex-Twitter bully Milo Yiannopoulos may have been taken offline, but now he’ll be in print. The “alt-right” editor at Breitbart News just signed a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon Schuster, as per an exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter. Threshold Editions told The Huffington Post in an email that the book will […]
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