The following is a re-posting from Paul Lima’s blog. This week, I had the pleasure of giving two talks based on my book, How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days to members of the Toronto Chapter of the Canadian Authors Association and to members of the Writers and Editors Network. Below are notes from my talk. How to Write a Non-Fiction Book in 60 Days Talk PresumptionYou want to write or are writing…
Yesterday marked a bit of a landmark for me; I finished the first draft of From Mountains of Ice, my new cultural fantasy novel. This is the first new novel I’ve written since I completed Shadow Song back in the early ’90s, and while it was a struggle to strap myself to the chair to write, it was also a joy. I’d forgotten how much I love what I do, what for me is as…
The following is a press release from Lightning Source Inc., the world’s largest offset and digital printer. Exciting news indeed! Top publishers exploring the latest print on demand book model with Lightning Source Espresso Book Machine pilot program LAVERGNE, TENNESSEE – Lightning Source, an Ingram Content company focused on enhancing book sales for publishers with innovative, low cost and minimum risk print on demand solutions, today announced the launch of an Espresso Book Machine (EBM)…
The following interview with Deb Salisbury first appeared on her blog in February, 2009, shortly after the release of her book, Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke. I started writing Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke to fill in my own ignorance of colors, especially Victorian era color, but the more I researched, the more colors appeared that I had never heard of before. And in reading Victorian transcriptions of Elizabethan wills, I discovered colors I had…
I don’t often get political on this blog. Today, however, I feel I must. I am proud to be a Canadian. Proud of our peaceable nature, our multi-cultural society, our tolerance. I am also deeply shamed and humbled by our government’s historical and continued refusal to embrace our First Nations. Frankly, the conditions in which they live every day of their lives is like unto a war zone in some third world country. Watch this…