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In a recent post, I gave my five arguments about why (some) books should continue on paper. But the reality is that the non-virtual books ...

A week after I wrote my post, Five Arguments Against the Total Inevitability of E-books , the Washington Post Book World arrived with this a...

If it hadn’t been for The Sun magazine, I probably would never have met Amy Bonaccorso—Amy and I joined the same Sun discussion group a co...

Surprisingly, many writers I know are starting to embrace e-book technology. They cite their portability —parents can load up a bunch of ki...

Lists of/Links to Writers' Organizations Writersmarket.com Organizations - An alphabetical list of selected writers' organization...

I’d never thought about writing a children’s picture book until I heard Pam Smallcomb speak at a SCBWI -sponsored ABC (Author Book Club) e...

Here are a few sites to get you started. Writers' organizations will list annual (and, sometimes, regional and smaller) conferences on t...

Alternative music radio station WTMD-FM recently sponsored a pledge-drive, week-long marathon of The Top 500 Desert Island Songs of All Tim...

The primary reason I attended UC-Santa Cruz was for its green-gorgeous campus—the university is inside a redwood forest, on a tall hilltop ...

Suddenly my daughter, E-girl, can't get enough of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." She begs to watch an episode of it whenever she h...