Books That Matter to Tom Folsom
In this Books That Matter feature, Tom shares his forecast for the future of publishing, the book he thinks you should read immediately, and which author is his current obsession.
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Books That Matter to Jenny Milchman
In a sentence or two, what’s your forecast for the future of publishing?
In a—French—word or phrase: La plus ca change. I think that the speed, convenience, and ease of use posed by Amazon, as well as the democratizing factor of today’s self-publishing, are valuable things, and readers and writers may well be better off for them. But I also think that these changes serve only to highlight the necessity of gatekeepers and the immense wisdom, passion, and skill amassed by publishers, booksellers, and reviewers. We are lucky to live in a world that has both.
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Practicing excellence & flow is not a privilege
In this disrupted economy rich with entrepreneurial king and queen makers, it’s tempting to slip into some fantasy, really a siren’s call, of luxury and easy routes and comfort.
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Books That Matter to Jesse Lee Kercheval
What if you lost your spouse and your child in the same accident? And what if soon thereafter you discovered you have a twin sibling you didn’t know you had and that your birth parents weren’t the ones who raised…
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Books That Matter to Sharon Oard Warner
“Family” is not something you often feel at writer’s conferences. But when I first spoke to Sharon Oard Warner back in 2003 about the Taos Summer Writer’s Conference she founded in 1998, I told Warner that it seemed as if…
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“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain
A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.
The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning – and vanishes like lightning. If you are not prone to pay attention to such moments, you likely will lose the insight and certainly not be able to replicate the conditions to have such insights again.
But can you become aware of such moments? And can you replicate them?
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Books That Matter to Justine Musk
In this Books That Matter interview, Justine Musk clues us in to recognizing herself in a Stephen King character, the admiration she has for characters that own their flaws, and that she is just getting started.
