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Bookselling

Many readers of this blog are also writers. And like my fellow writers, friends recommend books on how I can be a better writer, how I can write [fill in genre here], how to publish and how to sell books. You can imagine my skepticism when a respected friend...

Close Captioned

I don't know about you, but sometimes I need close captioning in my life. Or for my mouth. I try to watch what I say. I really do, but "occasionally" I suffer from blurt mouth. You know the feeling. That moment when what you meant to say gets garbled by what you...

When the Going Gets Tough,

the tough go shopping. At least that's the old cliche. Retail therapy doesn't work. I'm much less of a shopper today than I was ten years ago, so I have to do something else when the going gets tough. This week, the going got real tough. Bad things happened to a young...

Serenity

Serenity can be so difficult to find in the hustle and bustle world we live in. Everywhere we turn are screens beckoning us to take a look at something. I have too many screens in my house:  three televisions, two cell phones, three computer monitors, one tablet, even...

Emyl Jenkins

When a writer dies, so do her memories and all her experience. We lost Emyl Jenkins on April 27 at the young age of...

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