Flannery O’Connor: “You can’t clobber a reader while he’s looking. Divert his attention, then clobber him and he never knows what hit him.” Susan Orlean: “You should know more than what you put on the page. The reader can sense that.” Marie Force: The results are in –2015 reader survey In short, ebooks are stillContinue reading “Link Love for July 2015”
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Link Love for June 2015
I’m late. June ended a few weeks ago, but I found these links on the last day of the month. I wanted a place to share them as well as keep them, so I am posting to my blog. Hope you enjoy! When you’re on the edge via Tiffany Han From the editor’s desk: DialogueContinue reading “Link Love for June 2015”
The Skim: 1 March 2015
Welcome to The Skim. I skim the news for things I want to read and things you may want to know about. NPR: Sad news for romance writers. Beatrice Small, the classic author who helped set the genre on a new track, died this week. The Atlantic: If you haven’t heard or seen the confustionContinue reading “The Skim: 1 March 2015”
The Skim: 7 February 2015
Welcome to The Skim. I skim the news for things I want to read and things you may want to know about. (Get it? The skim…I amuse myself.) The quotation of the week goes to Jane Austen: “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerablyContinue reading “The Skim: 7 February 2015”
Happy new year?
Most people only celebrate the new year once on January 1. For those of us who still work in a school environment, we are soon kicking off another new year. There is something about the coming rush of students, school buses, and fall that makes me giddy. I enjoy the back-to-school sales with all theContinue reading “Happy new year?”
