Read Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford (2005) to get a sense of what drove him. To quote him: "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect Read More
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E-book fire sales: the death knell for publishers?
September 29, 2011
When Amazon.com and ebook discounts get rock-bottom low, so do returns to publishers, and even more so to authors, writes Michael Jecks in his persuasive blog post, This really is the death knell for publishers (writerlytwitterings, 9-28-11).
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Social networking for book readers
September 4, 2011
Media space for book reviews is shrinking but online communities for swapping books and sharing opinions about them are flourishing. Here are more than a dozen such sites;
• BookMooch (Give books away. Get books you want.)
• LibraryThing (enter what you're reading, or your whole library--and connect with people who read what you read)
• GoodReads Read More
• BookMooch (Give books away. Get books you want.)
• LibraryThing (enter what you're reading, or your whole library--and connect with people who read what you read)
• GoodReads Read More
Personal historians love their work
July 26, 2011
Note: The Association of Personal Historians closed shop in May 2017, so some of this is no longer applicable.
Want to help others tell their life (or family) stories? Pick up a copy of Start & Run a Personal History Business: Get Paid to Research Family Ancestry and Write Memoirs by Jennifer Campbell. Jennifer.
Listen to personal historian Stephanie Kadel Taras explain What personal historians do and why (audiofile of an interview on the Ann Arbor program "Everything Elderly." Read More
Want to help others tell their life (or family) stories? Pick up a copy of Start & Run a Personal History Business: Get Paid to Research Family Ancestry and Write Memoirs by Jennifer Campbell. Jennifer.
Listen to personal historian Stephanie Kadel Taras explain What personal historians do and why (audiofile of an interview on the Ann Arbor program "Everything Elderly." Read More
Memoirs of coping with chronic, rare, or invisible diseases, including mental health problems
July 15, 2011
Because I have a website providing resources about illness, recovery, dying, and grief, I am often asked to recommend books that will help people cope with a medical or mental health problem. I find that memoirs are often most helpful because they provide the narrative account of an illness that someone coping with a crisis is most likely to be able to concentrate on and get something out of (including understanding of their own emotional turmoil. These are some of the titles
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