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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jul.10.2012
(Updated July 27th, 2012.)
Our CEO, Ivory Madison, told me a story years ago about meeting Michael Uslan and how he inspired her. For an entire decade, every Hollywood studio told Uslan that no one would ever make a Batman movie—Batman was dead. But he believed in his childhood hero, in the power...
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Jul.02.2012
(Updated August 7th, 2012.)
When revered author Ray Bradbury died in June at the age of ninety-two, multitudes of writers and readers paid tribute to his genius and influence on them. Getting approval from Bradbury to adapt one of his short stories inspired Brad Schreiber. Steve Hauk explained how...
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Jun.15.2012
(Updated July 4th, 2012)
For most of us, writing means writing alone. How exceptionally lucky Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant were, then, to have labored together for more than forty years to produce their eleven-volume Story of Civilization. Recently we asked Red Roomers to...
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