Heart to heart, mind to mind. Connection and communication are the entire point (also entertainment, but let me be honest: that’s just a ruse to get inside your head). The intimacy of my words reaching my readers, knowing they didn’t just skim their eyes over the inky scribbles on their screen but actually brought that world into theirs… it’s the… Read More
Going into the Cave
I’ve been a Monk for some time now… not the religious kind, of course, and not truly isolated from society, steeped in contemplation–but kinda. And I’ve been easing a bit further into the cave over the last six months. I’m not done with that, apparently, because I’m going to take a bit of a social media break–or at least spend… Read More
Yes, You Can Be Smart And Read Romance
“I’m here to tell you that you can have a brain and still enjoy books with kissing in them. You can also have an economics degree from Yale and write romance novels. You can build a career on entertaining smart women and men with uplifting storytelling.” – Sarina White Bowen Oh yes you can. I’m enamored of this Kobo Writing Life… Read More
Are Novels Dead? No.
The market for indie ebooks continues to grow and grow, but the competition is like the Borg, assimilating everything in sight. “A tsunami of money is flowing to audio and video. Netflix unveiled a plan to spend $8 billion on original content in one year, while Apple plans to shell out $1 billion.’” As someone who traffics in text, I’m… Read More
Beauty
“The human soul is hungry for beauty…We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul. For a while the strains of struggle and endurance are relieved and our frailty is illuminated by a different light in which we come to glimpse behind the shudder of appearances to the sure form of… Read More
Better Things
Instead of watching the State of the Uniom (typo trademarked by the White House), I am reading Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin. #Resist
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- …
- 211
- Next Page »