Book Design Blog
I haven’t really been able to spend a whole lot of time checking out this blog just yet, but it looks really good so far. Foreward: A Book Design Blog looks like a skillful and insightful examination of book covers and similar matters. I’m definitely going to add it to my regular list of sites…
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I’m a bit of an architecture buff and I ran across this book last night that looked really cool… MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed by Eric Nash and Randall Robinson is described as “the first comprehensive survey of the rich postwar architecture that epitomizes the romance and energy that is Miami. Well-known for its revitalized South…
continue readingNo Nonsense Writing Advice from Computer Guru
Dave Taylor is a computer whiz who answers questions about techie matters such as shell script programming, Unix topics, Linux techniques, Mac OS X, cascading style sheets, and HTML among any other computer thing you can dream up off the top of your head. But here, he answers a viewer’s question about writing a book.…
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I learned about this through the fine website MobyLives, which you can check out here. Amazon posted their Hall of Fame of Authors. Now before folks get crazy debating the merits of this author or that author, let’s point out that Amazon calculated their Hall of Fame purely based on sales totals. So maybe it…
continue readingIn Memory of Evan Hunter
More on this later, but the short news is that Evan Hunter, best known for his books written under the name Ed McBain, passed away at the age of 78. Sad news of a hugely influential author who “virtually invented the American police procedural with his gritty 87th Precinct series featuring an entire detective squad…
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