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I need your help. I hope I’m not imagining this. It does feel kind of like a dream. But I distinctly remember, at summer camp (Norwich University Summer Camp For Boys) picking up an old, dog-earred copy of a book titled something like The Ascent of The Wax Hand. The title page listed a couple […]

I spend a lot of time writing and talking about electronic publishing. One of the issues that comes up from both writers and readers is this: With everyone publishing out there, how do I know what is good? (The author version of that question is, “With everyone publishing out there, how can I make my […]

It’s hard to believe it is April already. Things have pretty much been a blur since St. Valentine’s Day, when I flew over to Los Angeles to watch a rough-cut of the new Conan the Barbarian movie. It will be out on August 19th of this year, and the novelization will be available about six […]

I just visited Project Gutenberg looking for books from the American Colonial period and just beyond. The other day I’d found and downloaded an encyclopedia of “useful information” published in 1889, which had fascinating stuff in it. One article, for example, reflected the scientific thought of the day about the origin of oil—and did so […]

Saturday, October 2, in Second Life, I will be reading a selection from Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood. This is in conjunction with the American Library Association’s Banned Books week. In Cold Blood, among many other books, has been banned from libraries and schools by people who, to give them the benefit of the […]

Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has taken the world by storm. Amazon.com declared it the best-selling e-book ever for the Kindle. In Sweden the novel won awards, and wherever it’s gone on sale it seems to dominate the bestseller lists. Publishing’s reaction to Larsson’s success is indicative of everything that is […]

A Twisted Faith by Gregg Olsen is a great true-crime book which also provides a wonderful look inside an American subculture that we all know exists, but seldom get to explore. I got the book in preparation to interview Gregg on Dragonpage Cover to Cover podcast. A Twisted Faith delves into the story of Nick […]