Use Your Head
Before I retired, I spent a good deal of time taking part in online webinars to keep current with new […]
World Refugee Day
The United Nations designated June 20 each year as World Refugee Day in order to highlight the needs, rights, and […]
Guest Post by Kevin G. Chapman: More on Bargain Book Platforms for Marketing
I recently met an author of a police thriller series, Kevin G. Chapman, through AXP’s Typo-Killer program. I signed up […]
Bargain Book Platforms
As a reader, I’ve been experimenting with bargain book platforms for a couple of reasons. First, I want to see […]
Authors You Love to Hate?
All the recent publicity about W.W. Norton’s decision to stop distributing and publicizing Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth because […]
Publishing Scams
Advice from BookBaby on spotting scams aimed at indie authors. Author beware.
Z is for Ten in Zambia
HIV/AIDS continues to lead the list of the top ten causes of death in Zambia. This post is one in […]
Y is for Ten in Yemen
In Yemen, a child under the age of five dies of preventable causes every ten minutes. It wasn’t always so, […]
Holidays Around the World: International Workers Day
I wouldn’t be surprised if most readers think of May Day as either a day to leave a basket full […]
X is for Ten in Xi’an
The Silk Road, a ten-thousand-mile network of roads spanning the four thousand miles between China with the west starting from […]
W is for Ten in Washington
One out of ten residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure, according to the Capital Area Food Bank. […]
V is for Ten in Virginia
Since I had an address in Virginia for nearly twenty years, you’d think I would have visited the top ten […]
U is for Ten in Union City, NJ
The ten weeks I spent in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer between my sophomore and junior college years […]
T is for Twin Brothers
When I was ten, my twin brothers arrived a month earlier than Mom expected. My parents had planned for five […]
S is for Ten in San Diego
Ten years ago my husband and I began considering a move from Virginia to San Diego. A year later, we […]
R is for Ten in Romania
At the end of my second semester teaching English at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, I discovered the class I thought […]
