After I posted an article about the coincidental ways in which several ostensibly disparate elements came together on the Easter weekend,...

David Fitzgerald While deleting a huge backlog of emails to avoid paying a Google fee on this Easter weekend, I ran across an internet...

Rob Eagar, a book marketing expert and author of several nonfiction books, is the first person I’ve come across in the business of public...

Tampa Bay Chance encounters of related people or things in unlikely circumstances often elicit the cliché, “It’s a small world.” These...

Costco Lantana, Florida It goes without saying that people are staying home much more during the virus (DV) than before the virus (BV) –...

Bookstore reading A pandemic can do more than send people to their early graves, create cabin fever for those quarantining or just...

TouchPoint Press I’ve never thought of my authorial activities as a business, but here I am blocked by the same impediments that most...

Mark Twain When one ponders the state of the bookstore industry, a famous line attributed to Mark Twain comes to mind: “The report of my...

The deed is done. I have a publishing contract for my new novel, tentatively titled BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. I suspect it will stick – the...

After a long period of newsletter inaction, your not-so-faithful scribe is back in the business of the written word. The drought was...

The life of an author is full of ups and downs, like the Amazon rankings on hiser (my gender-neutral pronoun) books. One becomes addicted...

Remember the teeter-totter in the school playground? Do they still have those? I mean, it’s been at least 20 or 30 years since I left...

Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on National Public Radio, was interviewing James Patterson Monday evening when I tuned in,...

FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of...