blog topic of the week | blog topic of the week
Jan.08.2013
(Updated February 5th, 2013.)
It's a new year, and we're excited about all the new books that are slated to be released in 2013. In January, we asked to read about what books you're looking forward to buying in bookstore, downloading for your e-reader, checking out from the library, or borrowing...
|
Nov.26.2012
(Updated January 9th, 2013)
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are thinking.” –Jerry Seinfeld
Last holiday season, the American Booksellers Association reported that books—the paper kind—made a comeback. The independent bookstores tracked by the Association...
|
|
Oct.23.2012
(Updated January 10, 2013.)
For more than nine hundred years, Paris has been one of the world’s foremost centers of learning, the arts, and international politics. This history, combined with the particularly French interest in chivalry and courtly love, have given the city the reputation of being...
|
Oct.15.2012
“Please blog about your experiences learning a foreign language”, you said. And I thought: this can’t be that hard. I love languages; I’ve learned a few, this should be easy. But it wasn’t. The blank screen stared at me, waiting, but my fingers refused to write.
The problem wasn’t my lack of...
|
|
Oct.05.2012
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” –Charlemagne
The European Emperor Charlemagne said that at a time when the opportunity to learn a foreign language—or to learn to read or write one’s own—was rare. These days, it’s reported that 53% of Europeans can speak a foreign language....
|
Sep.12.2012
(Updated October 9th, 2012.)
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! If you’re a reader, you’ll now be able to buy eBooks on Red Room in all formats (for your iPad, Nook, or Kindle Fire, even to read on your computer or print out). To...
|
|
Aug.20.2012
Click here for the "my first eBook" blog challenge.
(Updated September 4th, 2012.)
One disadvantage of self-publishing's new popularity is that publishers, reviewers, and bookstores have don't often act as filters of self-published books; these days, it’s harder to find out what’s good. In August,...
|
Aug.10.2012
To write a memoir means to recreate your family history in a hopefully significant way for others to appreciate. My two published memoirs cover the tragic and adventurous stories of my parents and their lost loved ones in the Holocaust in Hungary, our escape to the USA after a life lived under...
|
|
Aug.06.2012
(Updated August 21st, 2012.)
In his memoir Palimpsest, the late Gore Vidal wrote that “a memoir is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.” It’s natural that the aspects we remember and want to make into a book are...
|
Jul.11.2012
...Wow, it's been almost 2 years since my previous (and first) blog post.
It feels like it's only been a few weeks. That's what happens, I suppose, when a person is thinking about other things.
Over the past 4 years, I've been in college. I wanted to start my own business. A publishing...
|