Unsavory SPAM
Even blocking some words, these days, fails to filter all the smut turning up in email inboxes and typed into comments sections of websites. The juvenile attempts to seduce one…
Foreign Lingo Blues
Preparing translations? Easy enough if you are fluent in the language, not so much if you aren't. Each format of a book―PDF, digital, or printed―has its own style and requirements.…
Digital World
Do we need barcodes? ISBN's? Digital identity? Not so long ago, identity papers were literally made of paper, not plastic much less 1's and 0's in cyberspace. There were no…
Writer’s Lifestyle
There are many advantages to being a writer: having a creative outlet, learning all manner of interesting facts while doing the research for a project, exploring one's own mind and…
What’s the point?
When you think about it, the majority of Romance tales are fables expressing a lesson. Most stories, by my observation, show the angst and problems that occur without clear communication.…
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Henry David Thoreau. Virtually everyone has heard of him and his book Walden. But how many have read it? And how many have read his influential treatise Civil Disobedience? I…
HISTORY versus OUR STORY
In an earlier post, I mentioned the frustration of discovering that the history on which an historical novel was based is incorrect. Imagine finding out that virtually everything you have…
WILLIAM MORRIS
News From Nowhere And Other Writings tells a whimsical tale of time travel from the 19th century to an unspecified future England in which people live without money, without government,…
Who are we?
"Better the lies that exalt us than the truths that demean us." That saying may be well known, and many may agree with it, but it would more accurately be…
Language in motion
In reading Jane Austen books from my To Be Read pile, it struck me that not only words commonly used have changed―such as her use of twelvemonth instead of year―but…