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.…
Right-to-Left Reading
If you thought publishing in English could make you crazy, try right-to-left script books! Hebrew and Japanese are among the languages written from right to left. They are also read…
DIY Book Covers
Most people contract out their book-cover designs, either to custom designers or to companies like SelfPubBookCovers that offer a variety of pre-made cover images to be modified with the buyer's…
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…
Vladimir Megré
The Ringing Cedars series of nine books has taken the world by a quiet storm that started in Russia and gradually swept across the planet as translations became available. Some…
Biographies and Autobiographies
Frankly, I rarely read biographies and autobiographies, especially those of politicians and industrialists. But I picked up Peter Ustinov's Dear Me simply because here was one man whose life might…
David R. Hawkins
Strictly non-fiction, David R. Hawkins's works teach us who we really are, where we come from, and what brought us to our current condition, whatever that may be. Power Vs.…