Too Chinese for America, Too American for China
November 1, 2020 4:01 am Leave your thoughtsBy Carol Van Den Hende When I was eight years old, my family moved to rural Maryland. I showed up... View Article
Rants and Revelations
Two Reasons Why Some Readers are NOT Allowed to Post Reviews on Amazon!
October 1, 2020 1:25 pm Leave your thoughtsSo, your book has been published and your readers are (virtually) lined up for their coveted copies! Yea!! And, you... View Article
PEN Journey 41: Berlin—Writing in a World Without Peace
September 10, 2020 6:53 pm Leave your thoughtsBy Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | September 9, 2020 | 0 FacebookTwitterEmailShare PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than... View Article
Dare to Speak: A Reading List
August 17, 2020 2:35 pm Leave your thoughtsby Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America My approach to free speech is that we need to think hard about how... View Article
PEN Journey 33: Senegal and Jamaica: PEN’s Reach to Old and New Centers
July 2, 2020 3:13 pm Leave your thoughtsBy Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | June 30, 2020 PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years... View Article
Where Does It Hurt?
June 1, 2020 9:26 am Leave your thoughtsGuest post by Matthew Watrous My wife and I once worked in a locked dementia unit. When people are having... View Article
Update, May 9, 2020: Breaking the Mental Freeze Over COVID-19
May 9, 2020 11:04 am 4 CommentsBreaking the Mental Freeze Over Covid-19 - Some things could become even more dangerous for Americans than COVID-19. The other monster is blind fear...When we turn on a few lights, some nightmares loosen their grip. What we all now desperately need is rational thought, clear perspectives, and a boatload of solace.
AAP: A Call to Save American’s Bookstores
May 1, 2020 4:03 am Leave your thoughtsRants and Revelations - In honor of World Book Day on April 23rd, it seems the right time to say this: we believe in books.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Publishing With Amazon Kindle Self-Publishing Platform
November 22, 2019 9:42 am 17 Comments(Editor’s note: Thanks to excellent feedback from our readers, I have clarified several points in this story. We strive for... View Article
Is Amazon Kindle Cheating Self-Published Authors?
September 1, 2018 9:00 am 1 CommentSo, you are about to self-publish a book in e-book or print-on-demand format. It seems like a no-brainer to sign an exclusive contract with Amazon Kindle and up goes your book to Amazon’s vast online audience. After all, presumably they own 60 or 70% of the e-book market. This super-rich company has overall product revenues of more than $107 billion and more than 304 million active customer accounts worldwide. But are they playing fair with the average author dreaming of selling a million copies of his or her e-book?