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

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,

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

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.

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

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