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Guy Kawasaki Wants You to De-Wimp Your Author Brand
by, Claire Webber
February 2, 2013

If you are working towards publication and own an eReader, chances are there’s a copy of APE: Author Publisher Entrepreneur sitting on your Nook. It’s a manifesto on the art of self-promotion and marketing books aimed at the self-published author, but it’s making waves for wordsmiths of all publication inclination. Its author, Guy Kawasaki, wrote most of this bestselling eBook from a 5-by-5 closet of… [Read More]

Filed Under: author brand, book review, Marketing, marketing strategy, self-promotion, Social Media networks
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Wild Fermentation: Feed your Rebellious Side
by, Claire Webber
June 9, 2012

That container gently bubbling in the kitchen, a jar of vegetables and spices and antiseptic salt, is an exercise in patience. It’s a testament of expectation. It’s going to be your sauerkraut in just a few weeks if you can just wait, and taste, and trust. Ellie Sandor Katz’s seminal work, Wild Fermentation, has been considered the gateway text into a world of natural fermented… [Read More]

Filed Under: Authors, book review, eli sandor katz, lactofermentation, wild fermentation, wild fermentation book review
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Guantanamo Boy
by, Danielle Sherwood
October 13, 2011

Guantanamo Boy (Albert Whitman, 2011 reprint) is the story of a teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time in a dangerous political climate. It’s a story of closed ears, fearful eyes and silent mouths. A story in which the small kindnesses buried deep in the heart have the power to keep a person alive, like the power of a good book (a Reader’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: advocating peace, Anna Perera, book review, England, Guantanamo Bay, international Human Rights violations, Pakistan, Teen & YA fiction, torture, xenophobia
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A Straight-Edge Education
by, Danielle Sherwood
August 23, 2011

Until I picked up Eleanor Henderson’s Ten Thousand Saints, I had never heard the term “straight-edge,” much less anything about a movement of it. At first, I thought the world Henderson created was 100% fiction. I could not have been more wrong. This is understandable, as I was born at the tail-end of all the action and, to add salt to the wound, I grew… [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980's American history, author events, book review, Buffalo Street Books, editing first drafts, Eleanor Henderson, hardcore and punk music, New York City, New York Times Sunday Book Review, research, straight-edge movement, teenage culture, writing historical fiction
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The Summer Without Men
by, Danielle Sherwood
July 12, 2011

Don’t let the jacket copy and title fool you. No chick lit fodder beckons in Siri Hustvedt’s newest fiction: The Summer Without Men (Picador, April 26, 2011). The antics of Mia Fredrickson’s young and turbulent neighbors, the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop, and her mother’s senior circle composed of the wise and nurturing “Five Swans” provides the context for deep intellectual passages and keeps… [Read More]

Filed Under: book review, fiction, history and memory, Jane Austen, love and marriage, poets, question of difference, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Reading, The Summer Without Men
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Cleaning Nabokov’s House
by, Jill Swenson
March 8, 2011

Leslie Daniels is a great writer whose background as a literary agent serves her well in her craft. Romance, baseball, a dog, small town upstate culture, crime, memoir/creative nonfiction, writing and authors and agents: women’s fiction has a fresh new voice. Daniels mixes it all up so there’s something for everyone. Plus humor, sardonic and ironic. Walking away from a marriage because you don’t know… [Read More]

Filed Under: agent turned author, book review, fiction, humor, Leslie Daniels, Vladimir Nabokov
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