Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Just some buzzing among many of our peers in the past week or so over this one little bit of news: Google’s announced it will be shutting down its Google Reader service in July. As the most popular of the RSS reader services, lots of us use [...]
Born in Salt Lake City to a family in the military and named after his great-grandfather, Marion, and father, George, Marion G. Harmon spent much of his formative years traveling from post to post “at the whim of the U.S. military.” He lived at places like Stuttgart, Germany, and Sydney, Australia, before settling in Las [...]
Author of the young adult paranormal Heven and Hell series and the Death Escorts series, Cambria Hebert “loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens.” Yes, those chickens, she assures us. She went off to school for a bachelor’s, couldn’t decide on a major, and left with a cosmetology degree. This, she [...]
Brian Rathbone is a standardbred horse trainer turned technology geek turned independent fantasy writer and podcaster. In his own words, he’s “a bit of an odd duck armed with a few too many dragon jokes.” He certainly seems to have found an outlet for those dragon jokes, at least for the stories that they may [...]
The two tools you’ll be reading about in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday installment are in the “not quite recommended but pretty dang curious” category. I like what they promise, but I’m not sure they deliver what they say they will. The way I think they should, anyway. Or what is delivered isn’t cost effective as [...]
Ever since he could string words together, Jason D. Morrow loved to write fiction. And his parents were very supportive: He would take his stories to them to read and he’d receive positive feedback. Graduating with a Journalism degree, he got a job writing for a Georgia newspaper… but he realized it really wasn’t the [...]
In 1992, Deborah Cooke sold her first book, The Romance of the Rose, under her pen name, Claire Delacroix. More than fifty romance novels and a bunch of novellas in various genres later, she piled up numerous best-sellers, nominations and awards for her work, including the Orange County RWA Book Buyer’s Best and the Colorado [...]
Sam Torode is the author of The Dirty Parts of the Bible: A Novel, a semifinalist for the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. He is also the author of The Book of Craw (poems related to the novel), and a more serious biblical study, The Song of Songs. A Nashville, Tennessee, writer, artist and book designer, Sam [...]
I’m calling this week’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday installment the Old School Edition. Here we revisit in a sense a couple of old, pre-Internet era must-have business resources but with a decidedly modern day angle to the way they’re implemented and/or put to work serving our operations and objectives. If your technical skills are merely in [...]
Passionate, emotion-filled novels featuring complex, sexy Alpha males tamed by smart, strong, independent-minded women were author Sandra Morton’s vehicles for success, using them to build a long and very fruitful writing career. A USA Today bestselling author, Sandra has more than 35 million books in print worldwide. Accolades? No shortage of those either. Sandra has won [...]
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
