Archive for the 'Books' Category


Unbroken

Good morning! Huh?  But it’s noon! I know, but I just woke up.  You see I was up all night reading "Unbroken". "Unbroken"? I was clueless too.  Daniel Glass sent it to me.  I was just planning to scan a few pages in order to not feel guilty, to let him know I’d made an […]

Amanda Hocking Redux

Never forget that the boy band juggernaut was concocted and executed by a roly-poly man in Florida who had visions but no connections. You see success in the arts always takes place in the head.  It’s conception.  Creativity comes in a burst. Who has the perseverance to make it real? The story about Amanda Hocking […]

Tina Fey’s Book

What I hate about America is marketers insist on overdoing it.  They all believe we live where there’s no cable TV, no magazines and no Internet and therefore they must plaster their product across all media just in case we go to the metropolis to get smokes or beer and stumble upon media accidentally and […]

Digital Milestone

"Digital Sales Outstrip A Hardcover’s Debut" Unfortunately, this content is behind a pay wall.  But it states that Harper, for the first time sold more copies of a title in e-book form than hardcover.  Over the initial twelve days of sales, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana" sold 6,500 digital copies as opposed […]