After earning an M.A. in Film Theory from the University of British Columbia and all the career opportunities that began presenting themselves, Deborah Peraya had a reality check. “Working at Starbucks was not what I had in mind,” she quickly realized. So, she began teaching in various film programs, and eventually managed to segue to [...]
Award-winning book designer Joel Friedlander has helped launch the careers of self-publishers since 1994 and writes the popular blog, The Book Designer. Drawing from some of the most useful and informative of his blog posts, Joel published A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, which has been very well-received and highly regarded [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. I absolutely positively do not need software tools for photo and image processing and manipulation, having collected what’s in my toolbox literally from years of futzing around with this stuff. I haven’t even upgraded some of what’s in there to their latest versions, preferring to rely on my intimate and [...]
Brad Whittington is a Texan, born in Fort Worth “on James Taylor’s eighth birthday and Jack Kerouac’s thirty-fourth,” making Brad “old enough to know better.” Now an Austin resident, he’s lived in Hawaii, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona and Colorado, doing an even longer list of jobs: janitor, math teacher, field hand, computer programmer, brickyard worker, editor, [...]
With a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University, Jackie Pilossoph is a freelance newspaper reporter and weekly columnist for Pioneer Press. She’s also busy freelancing for online magazines and corporations, and writing novels — she’s the author of the rom-coms Free Gift With Purchase, Jackpot!, and Hook, Line and Sink Him — and screenplays. She [...]
In the latest issue of her Writers-Editors Network ezine, my friend Dana K. Cassell posted a single-question anonymous survey, and would appreciate your participation. Shouldn’t take more than a minute, really. The question: “What is your biggest challenge or problem when it comes to your writing?” Again, it’s anonymous. It’s on SurveyMonkey, and the only thing [...]
Native New Yorker Lara Reznik was ambidextrous at birth, and largely preferred doing stuff with her right-brain creative side. Her left-brain skills, however, made it easier to make a living, so in 1985 she pursued a career in IT. But she also wrote and finished her first novel then. Despite what looked like possible interest [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Didn’t get much in the way of “Wordpreneur Tools testing time” this week, so didn’t. No need for that to keep you away from putting some cool tools to work for your respective enterprises though. I’ve discarded the crappy “tools” that have crossed my desk; here are the [...]
Abigail Keam is an award-winning beekeeper, with sixteen Kentucky State Fair honey awards. She also got the Barbara Horn Award, given to beekeepers at the fair who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition. A metal house by the Kentucky River is what she calls home, where she lives with her husband and “various [...]
Karen Luellen — author of the YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Winter’s Saga series — grew up the middle child, the only girl between two brothers, each with distinctly different personalities. Although she was able to adjust to each brother’s interests and preferences if she wanted a playmate, she still had more than enough time left over by [...]
Good Cover Designs
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"Alchemy" by Mike Wood
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"The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming" by Masanobu Fukuoka
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"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" by Eiji Otsuka
