Gretchen Rubin is the best-selling author of the Happiness Project which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 46 weeks! The book arose from a blog that Gretchen started as a way to work out how to be happier in her life. Now there’s a book a blog with video-blogging (vlogging?) and…
When I first started writing this “Christmas” letter it started “It’s November, and…. Then it morphed into “It’s December and…” Fact is, you’ve probably noticed that, in fact, “It’s January and…although I’m sitting here looking at a deceptively placid and sunny lake, we’ve already had at least a foot of snow here in New Hampshire….
I woke up this morning feeling pretty good. Then I opened up my computer and found that I’d been given a Sunshine Award for this blog! Can today get any better? I don’t care – this is great. Thank you so much Limebird Writers for giving this blog the Sunshine Award! Limebird Writers are a…
The Darien Public Library, in Connecticut, http://www.darienlibrary.org/ has been focussing recently on writers and their needs. One of the results of this is the installation of one of only 25 print-on-demand book machines in the whole of North America. (See my post on 11/16/11 http://gabicoatsworth.com/2011/11/16/the-writers-espresso-machine/) Now they’re running a panel all about self-publishing – the…
Virginia Woolf was born on January 25th 1882 in Kensington, London. It’s the spot where I used to hang out as a teenager, full of arty cafe’s, galleries and famous museums. As part of the Bloomsbury group, she lived in Bloomsbury (of course) which is where my University was situated, so I trod in her…
Alex McNab has been a force for good in Fairfield’s writing circles for a number of years. The author of a novel and the leader of one of the (free) writing groups at the Fairfield Public Library, he also publishes the Fairfield Writers’ Blog. You can find it here: http://fairfieldwriter.wordpress.com/ Recently he wrote a blog…
We all know the writer is Amanda Hocking. The London newspaper, The Guardian, has an interesting interview with her today by Ed Pilkington. here’s the beginning of it: When historians come to write about the digital transformation currently engulfing the book-publishing world, they will almost certainly refer to Amanda Hocking, writer of paranormal fiction who…
Tessa McGovern runs a digital publishing company called eChook: http://echook.com/. She also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College on the Bronx, NY. The guest post below will tell you how to sign up for a course led by a real live agent – with connections. Read on: Are you still making up your mind about…
