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My life is insane this week. In addition to training for a half-marathon, editing two books, and touring every kindergarten in California, I’ve been left to take care of two snot-nosed kids (literally, there are balls of snotty toilet paper all over the house) alone while my husband is out of town on a business […]

January 18th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Reading, Videos | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)

Interview with Red Room founder and CEO Ivory Madison

Some of you may be familiar with Red Room, a social network and marketing platform for authors that boasts superstar members like Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Jonathan Lethem, Erica Jong, Salman Rushdie, Dave Eggers, and Amy Tan. What you may not know is that on October 24, Red Room launched the “the world’s only authors’ […]

December 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Publishing, Reading, Writing | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)

Link Love

Finally, links!

As you’ve probably heard by now, according to Jeff Bezos, e-book sales have surpassed hardcover book sales at Amazon (but I’m curious to know how e-book sales compare to paperback sales).

And from The Nation, the trouble with Amazon.

From my friend Connie Hale over at Sin and Syntax (have you bought her […]

August 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: E-Books, Link Love, Memoir, Publishing, Videos, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

One Reason to Buy a Kindle

This is me reading a book on the iPad at the beach. It was an overcast day, and I did discover that if I tilted it at the right angle, I could read without the towel over my head, but still, a Kindle would have been nice. Would I rather have a Kindle than an […]

August 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Books, E-Books, Reading | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

iPad Update

So now that I’ve had a little more time to read books on the iPad, here are some thoughts:

Pros

It’s VERY easy to buy a book. It’s easier through iBooks, but it’s not difficult through Amazon either. I haven’t tried the B&N app yet. Just one click and you own it. And you’re reading. […]

July 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Books, E-Books, Publishing, Reading | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)