Wanna Know What It’s Like in Publishing?
Esteemed member of The Velvet, friend of Slushpile, and dedicated writer and publishing observer, Logan Chance Rapp has gotten a summer job most of us would envy. Whereas I spent a summer in the Mississippi heat painting swimming pools by hand, Logan has been lucky enough to score an internship at one of our favorite…
continue readingBook 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…
continue readingBoD: MiMo
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.…
continue readingAmazon’s Hall of Fame
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…
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