Found an interesting post on podcasts being put out by universities, and another list of college podcasts here. In addition to the sites they lists, I also found several more universities that are now
Good Reading
Good books and other reading.
Writing the Novel – A Reading Journal
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block One of our requirements for school is to write five reading journals each semester. Here is a portion of one of this semester’s journals. As
Harry Potter On Good Paper
Check out this interesting article about the upcoming Harry Potter book. Scholastic has agreed to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on paper that has a minimum of 30 percent post-consumer waste
More Writing News
Contests and Fun Stuff To celebrate making the final four of the American Title III contest, KJ “Kim” Howe is holding a really fun “kill me off” contest. She explains it in detail on the Drunk
Writing News
Contests and Fun Stuff KJ Howe just made the final four of the American Title III contest! Fashioned after American Idol, the American Title contest focuses instead on novels by unpublished authors.
Best Books I Read in 2006
These aren’t necessarily books that were published in 2006 (most weren’t), just books I read in 2006. I hit an all-time high, reading 60 books this year. So while my favorites list might seem long,
Screwed
I just saw a fascinating talk on BookTV on CSPAN given by Thom Hartmann, author of the book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It. He talked a lot about the
Busy Bee
I’ve been so busy lately. My parents came to visit for a week, and my cat is sick. He’s going in for a procedure next week, and hopefully it will clear up a lot of his problems. The siding is finally
Fire and Ice – the war between USSR and Finland
I’m watching a documentary on PBS called “Fire and Ice� about the “Winter War�, a war between the USSR and Finland in 1940. Wow. I never learned anything about this in school.
LKH – One of the best
Laurell K. Hamilton is one of my favorite authors. I’m currently reading Seduced by Moonlight and enjoying it a lot. I first discovered her books with A Kiss of Shadows, which led me to try the