• 9.2.10: Scribd Pros & Cons for Scribes and Buyers Alike

    9.2.10: Scribd Pros & Cons for Scribes and Buyers Alike

    Scribd.com has recently risen in my esteem. After discovering one of my eBooks on their website some weeks ago–copied and placed thereon by a book pirate–the folks at Scribd had the offending PDF taken down before 10 hours had elapsed. Soon after that, my husband and I began posting “sample” chapter PDFs of our various [...]

  • 9.1.10: Finding Your Niche Market: How authors can effectively market their work

    9.1.10: Finding Your Niche Market: How authors can effectively market their work

    Almost everyone considers themselves to be a writer of some sort. Those who most appreciate the art will define it as a means of connecting to oneself, to others, to reality and to fantasy. This definition excludes no one. The book business, unfortunately, does. Industry experience teaches that every writer is not an author, and [...]

  • 8.31.10: The Blissful Burrito

    8.31.10: The Blissful Burrito

    When I was in elementary school, I remember getting assigned a project once regarding favorite foods.  We had to select a favorite food, write a paragraph or two on why that food was our favorite, and then create a three-dimensional model of our food, art class-style, out of construction paper.  I declared that my favorite [...]

  • 8.31.10: Clark Russell, Making the world beautiful one client at a time

    8.31.10: Clark Russell, Making the world beautiful one client at a time

    By Kaye Cloutman, Photography by Martin Delfino Reviewing books, meeting deadlines, doing author interviews and preparing the layout for a monthly publication are probably some of the furthest things from glamour. For two and a half years I have known Heidi (my boss and publisher for the San Francisco | Sacramento Book Review) as the [...]

  • 8.27.10: The Waning Summer

    8.27.10: The Waning Summer

    In Northern California, the weather proved unusually mild this summer. Normally, we experience over 100-degree heat wave upon heat wave, inducing in me an almost hermit-like existence indoors. Instead, the cooler temperatures allowed for several trips outside, staying longer typing away on the trusty laptop. As the kids scampered about the landscaping with vacation-borne glee, [...]

  • 8.27.10: Kepler’s celebrates the release of Mockingjay, The Final Book of the Hunger Games

    8.27.10: Kepler’s celebrates the release of Mockingjay, The Final Book of the Hunger Games

    By Kaye Cloutman Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced a month ago that it has increased the first printing of Mockingjay, the final book in the nationally bestselling The Hunger Games trilogy, to 1.2 million, from a previously announced 750,000 copies. First published in September 2008, The Hunger Games was an [...]

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  • Love Haiku

    Love Haiku

    By Patricia Donegan Shambhala, $16.00, 209 pages the irises- I break off a stem and go to my love -Kiyoko Uda Haiku, an old form of Japanese poetry, captures a single moment in a few short words. While the main

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  • Stalker Girl

    Stalker Girl

    By Rosemary Graham Viking Juvenile, $16.99, 296 pages When does intrigue cross the line into obsession? When does obsession become stalking? Rosemary Graham looks at first love in Stalker Girl. When Carly’s mom moves upstate to direct a summer camp,

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  • Wings of Fire

    Wings of Fire

    By Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Todd Lockwood Night Shade Books, $15.95, 499 pages This enchanting collection is a sampling of all things dragon; philosophy, magic, mechanism, environment, menu, subterfuge, climate, culture, and dragons

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  • Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

    Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

    By Kathleen Dean Moore Trumpeter, $15.95, 195 pages In the introduction to this book, Kathleen Dean Moore states that she originally intended to write a book about what makes people happy. Then, life intervened, and Moore faced a rapid series

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  • Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean

    Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean

    By Margaret Gajek, Derek Galon Ozone Zone Books, $44.95, 301 pages Houses are not just places of security, or places with beds and kitchens and living rooms, they are expressions of the life around us, what we want out if

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  • The Great Big Cheese Cookbook

    The Great Big Cheese Cookbook

    By Running Press, Editor Running Press, $22.95, 480 pages In collaborating with chefs or foodies, the unanimous answer to my question of “what ingredient can’t you live without?” is cheese. This dairy product is a staple component of many award-winning

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