Accounting For Your Time

by | Jul 12, 2011 | Living in Place

Back in January, Wendy posted a piece about the Planner Pad – a system that helps the user organize her time and keep track of the all the events we juggle on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The Planner Pad sounded so good, I bought one – and I love it. It...

Your Book, Your Way

by | Jun 28, 2011 | Living in Place

Shortly after Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, the publishing house was born: Publishers owned the presses, bought the rights to what they published, and established a network for marketing and distribution. Five hundred years later, digital...

What I Learned at Publishing School

by | Jun 14, 2011 | Living in Place

Digital technology is revolutionizing how books are produced and delivered, and antiquated business models for acquiring and marketing books are leeching profits from booksellers. Together, the technological innovation and financial stagnation are changing the...

Getting Started With Groups

by | Jun 7, 2011 | Living in Place

I had three children in four years, so even though well-wishers assured me I’d be able to write while the kids slept, I confess to being a slacker: when my kids napped, so did I. But not writing made me even more desperate than not sleeping, so I signed up for a...

Gotta Get Dressed

by | May 24, 2011 | Living in Place

Wendy recently posted advice about how a writer needs to stay fit to survive [Survival of the Fittest]. Well, I recently learned that a writer also needs to get dressed. I quit my day job in 2003, and have been writing blissfully at home ever since. It would be...