Local Writers Join The eBook Revolution
One poem’s 5-step path from idea to electronic publication.
After reading this success story about ePublishing, it’s no surprise that eBooks are taking off in popularity – or that libraries now lend eReaders to those with an appetite for publishing’s newest medium. Last year, Santa Claus delivered a Kindle to my home. I stared that thing down with sheer disgust for the first few months. Why, I wondered, would anyone want to replace traditional books with a Kindle or a NOOK or an iPad? Anyone else notice that Kindle rhymes with swindle? That NOOK rhymes with crook? This is just a fad…isn’t it? Nope. We all know books can get lost, torn, and accidentally dropped into [insert horrible, wet places like toilets and mud puddles]; while eReaders have their own foibles (note the damaged screen in the photo…
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Christine Wolf
8:35 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Q&A with author Bill Anthony (continued): Q: Any advice to aspiring writers? A: Write. Then keep writing. (This is the same advice that Sharon and Steve Fiffer give all of us. Interestingly, it's the same advice Steven King gives in his great book on writing—and Anne Lamotte in her book Bird by Bird on writing…) and the second piece of advice is not to listen to anyone else—or those little … more ›