Book Reviews

I wish I had Time to Read a Book… Oh, Look…

Work is killing my writing at the moment.  If you look at the bottom, I only wrote about two hundred words this week.  So I even have less time to read.  But sometimes you need a break, and fortunately for me, we hit the jackpot on our last trip to […]

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What I’ve been reading: DC Superhero Girls at Metropolis High

Writer and educator Art Holcomb has said you should read ten times as much as you write.  While I understand that from an educational perspective, I just don’t have the time.  I’ve been reading “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew” since the beginning of the year – and […]

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Book Review:  “Screen & Stage Marketing Secrets” by James Russel

  I really should have reviewed this book earlier.  When I attended USC Cinema/Television we spent a lot of time on screenwriting, but not a lot of time on how to sell a script.  Then, years later, when I picked up the keyboard again, I needed to know what to […]

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Book Review: “How to Blog a Book” by Nina Amir

This book is really geared for those writing nonfiction.  If you are writing on a nonfiction topic, this book should be a great help to you.  The premise is that if you want to write a self-help, how-to or other informational type book, why not do it as a blog?  […]

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