Looking to the future and a bit from the past.

I’m a day ahead of time because tomorrow in the very early a.m. I’m leaving for the airport. Hubby and I have to get up at 2:30 a.m. in order to be at the airport in time for our 6 a.m. flight for Seattle. Sounds easier than it is. We first must drive to Bakersfield [...]

A Review of Nancy O. Greene’s “Portraits in the Dark”

Dark, dark, dark…, January 28, 2007

Reviewer:
David Schleicher “Author of The Thief Maker” (New Jersey, USA) – See all my reviews
  

Nancy O. Greene’s short stories collection certainly lives up to its title. The nine stories are varied in form, style, and content, but all are dark and psychologically complex and full of vivid imagery [...]

Dialogue that hums

I like good dialogue in a book.
It brings the characters alive, moves the story on, adds depth to the milieu in which the characters move. And to me, good dialogue always involves conflict. Take this example, from James Lee Burke’s Sunset Limited. Our hero, Dave Robicheaux, is a cop in Louisiana, and he’s about to [...]

Relato EL CUADRO

A lo largo de mi azarosa existencia he podido conocer los más variados paisajes y, lejos de sentirme utilizado, ahora reconozco la riqueza y privilegio que ha supuesto distinguir el semblante de quien tenía enfrente. Añoro los primeros tiempos, aquellas tardes de buhardilla entre tanto lienzo amontonado, los primeros colores, manchas [...]

Pushing Limits

Earlier this week an independent film titled, “Grace is Gone” was on the receiving end of some good news at the Sundance Film Festival. Starring John Cusack, the movie tells the story of the father of two young daughters who’s forced to deal with the fact that his wife was killed in the [...]

Can I Get Reader’s Attention?

One of writer’s eternal question is; can I get reader’s attention? We work hard on our manuscripts, go through the pain of editing, designing a cover, plan for the marketing, write our press releases, design our websites and blogs, send out e-mails, visit blogs and contact local newspapers, write articles, give out business cards, [...]

Are Readers Following Book Trailers?

Book trailers are popping up everywhere and with this new technology at our fingertips I just wonder if readers are following book trailers? How effective is the medium to connect to book lovers? I know I’ve seen a few and wanted to buy one of the books I saw but I failed to [...]

Feathered Time

My Christmas Tree is still up. Time to do all that needs to be done is slim; I guess that’s why the task of taking the tree down never finds its way on the “To Do” list. I don’t mind that it’s up, really. A couple decades past, while living in Japan and experiencing a [...]

Books Carnival – January 21, 2007

Photography by: Herman Hooyschuur

Welcome to the January 21, 2007 edition of Books Carnival.
This is the first issue of Books Carnival published on the third Sunday of every month. If you would like to submit your blog article please do so on the link at the end of this issue.
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The Future of Publishing

Wow, big topic title.
I’ve been moved to think about this because of the development of a new machine that takes Print on Demand to just about its limit. It’s called the Espresso, and it can print and bind a single copy of a book in 8 minutes. And it can hold 2.5 million books in [...]