Here’s another chance to read and review a Dana Press book before it’s released to the general public. July’s title is TREATING THE BRAIN: WHAT THE BEST DOCTORS KNOW, by top neuroscientist Walter Bradley. Even in this information age, people dealing with often-serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable [...]
This year, the Romance Writers of America holds its national convention in my own back yard. In less than two weeks, July 15 through 18, the happy horde will land in Washington at the Wardman Marriott Park Hotel for workshops, parties, industry panels and the big awards ceremony. First, there’s a huge public booksigning event, [...]
These are about one-third of the books for sale at the Learning & the Brain conference this weekend in DC. It’s a great conference (which the Dana Foundation helps sponsor), but I was appalled at the number of how-to teaching and learning books that have “Brain” in the title (and what isn’t a “brain-compatible activity”?). [...]
[see part one below] More choices: …Sheets, Scandal Sheets, Press, News … Press Relations Miss Delancey and the Publisher, The Persistent Publisher, The Lady and the Publisher Passion’s Secret, Passion’s Truth Melody of Desire, Desire’s Melody Scales of Scandal Truth, Justice, and the Lady Truth, Justice—or the Lady The Lady and the Scribbler, Scribbling and [...]
Over on the GenReality blog this week, multipublished author Lynn Viehl breaks down her first royalty statement for her book TWILIGHT FALL, which hit NYT’s mass-market best-seller list last July. It’s quite the eye-opener, starting with the fact that one doesn’t see the first royalty check until more than 9 months after the book is [...]
Like me, many of my journalist friends find themselves following a “non-traditional” path as the newspaper industry crumbles. Adriel Hampton, whom I worked with at the San Francisco Examiner (when it was owned by the Fangs), moved into government as an investigator for the city attorney’s office and now is on the vanguard of the [...]
I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of my friends in book club raved about it so much we decided it would be our book of the month this month (next month is Rabbit Run, in eerie timing). I was all for it, but others took a bit longer to be convinced, [...]
Here’s your chance to read and review a Dana Press book before it’s released to the general public. December’s title is Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases, by Jamie Talan: More than 40,000 people worldwide have undergone deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes in the brain that are connected [...]
How should we take companies’ claims that their functional magnetic resonance imagers (fMRI) can tell if we are telling lies? With a mighty grain of salt, said panelists during the second day of the Neuroethics Society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The idea of using fMRIs as a lie detector already has permeated society, said [...]
Had fun at the New Jersey Romance Writers Put Your Heart in a Book Conference this past Friday and Saturday. Lots of workshops, less candy (which is a good thing) and more good conversations than last year. I didn’t pitch a story to agents or editors this year; feels too soon for the new story [...]
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