And Don’t Criticize What You Can’t Understand*

by | Feb 15, 2016 | The Book Biz

I’ve always prided myself on being reasonably up to date (though not, perhaps, on the cutting edge), particularly for a gal who didn’t grow up with technology. I got a computer pretty early on for a nongeek (back in the days when an app was called software, y’all),...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

by | Oct 19, 2015 | The Arts & Media

Earlier this summer I was sitting on the deck in the growing dusk after supper listening to the Boy talk with his cousins (my niece and her husband, let’s call them Suze and Sam) about social media. Suze is hovering around age forty; she recently left academia—where...

Short Saturday: The Dark Side of Being an Author

by | Sep 26, 2015 | Miscellany

I’ve experienced my share of online confrontation, some of it mean, some of it downright nasty. And I’ve commented on those experiences too (“Two Kinds of People,” “Prescriptivist or Descriptivist,” and “Haters, Gotta Love ’Em”). This old world is full of blamers,...

Short Saturday: The Book Is the Thing

by | Jul 4, 2015 | The Book Biz

Since the beginning of this year, publishing thought leader Jane Friedman has offered an interview series called 5 On. Each discussion is conducted by author Chris Jane, who “asks established, traditionally published authors and experienced self-published authors five...