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  • The “Indie” Author – Playing Against a Stacked Deck? Note: This entry is excerpted from my guest blog on Gelati’s Scoop Imagine hundreds of thousands of cars lined up at the border, any border, Canada, Mexico…drivers desperate to get in.  A thousand border police, glancing at the drivers’ IDs, re...
  • The “Indie” Author – Future or Failure? There is a sea change happening in the book publishing industry.  Bottom line – it’s self-destructing.  It’s a classic case of what Clayton Christiansen, is his book The Innovator’s Dilemma, describes as when a “disruptive technology” comes...


  • The Type of Writer I Want To Be The term "social portraiture" turned up in something I read recently and it has stayed in my mind ever since.  I think of Tom Wolfe, for example, and his Bonfire of the Vanities.  What is most fascinating to me is human behavior in the context of our so...
  • Writers have fragile egos and other brief insights After a particularly nasty response to one of my book reviews I stopped writing them. Several friends have commented that they had come to rely on my recommendations so I've decided to begin again. I am currently reading The Sense of an Ending by Julian...
  • A few of my favorite things.... Barbados, Sauvignon Blanc, Frank Sinatra and a good book! ...
  • I Love Marge Like many long married happy couples, my husband and I have become a self-sufficient unit. We are best friends, confidants, companions, playmates, etc. It's not hard to see how many couples die within days of each other, as if the death of one partner i...

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