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Literary candy-grams from Lulu
Happy Valentine’s Day from Lulu. Send a conversation heart to your fellow literature lovers. Here are the links to share these from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus.
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Unleashing the TED Talk Within
Over the last few years, there has been a single high-profile destination for leading thinkers and experts to share their ideas: the TED Conference, a four-day festival of ideas and the arts, devoted...
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Location, location, location…what’s your perfect place to write?
Writing, for all its wonders, is essentially a frustrating experience. It takes a lot of time putting words on a page before you get anything half-decent, and even then, having written anything that...
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Reselling eBooks raises questions for authors
Over the past week, debate has intensified over the practice of reselling eBooks. Amazon and Apple both filed patents last week to make reselling eBooks a reality, and the collective reaction by...
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Independent Publishing at SXSW
SXSW, the Austin-based conference that features events base around technology, education and music took place last week and I’ve now finally recovered from all the excitement of having all of these...
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Social media for book lovers
Social networking meets your reading addiction. The New York Times recently ran an excellent profile of Goodreads, a super popular book-centric social media platform. The site launched in 2006, and as...
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Are eBooks a different genre than print ones?
eBooks as their own genre? Writing in The Guardian, Stuart Kelly has proposed a radical idea: that eBooks should be treated as a different genre than regular print books. Why? The fantastic...
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The Modern Poet
It’s National Poetry Month and in conjunction with Poets.org, we are celebrating the works and contributions of poets from all over the world. Check out all of the happenings here. Poets face an...
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Should eBooks even try to be books?
Photo Source: Gizmodo We can all agree that when it comes to eBooks, we’re still at the very early stages of their existence. Like early video games or early films, we have yet to push the boundaries...
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Writing and work ethic
A dear friend of mine told me the other day that she couldn’t understand how I was able to write. “I just sit down at my computer and, well, eventually I start writing,” I told her. “No,” she said. “I...
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Helix Review webinar opportunity
It’s really hard to get an objective, unbiased perspective on your book. Actually, it can be really hard just to get someone to read your book. Picture this — your book read and analyzed to reveal...
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Modern Thought Leadership: three absolute must-have’s
Modern Thought-Leadership: It doesn’t happen overnight With the ever-expanding world of social media marketing influence, the concept of the modern day “thought-leader” has not only experienced...
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Self-publishing gaining ground in the academics
[Graphic: Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle of Higher Education]While I don’t typically pay a lot of attention to academic publishing, I recently ran across a very interesting article in the...
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eBooks gaining ground but, printed books remain number one
Courtesy of Typedesk.com When eBooks really started to take off around three years ago, their success was accompanied by the typical doomy, gloomy apocalyptic hand-wringing about the future of the...
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Picture.com is here!
Today, Lulu launched Picture.com, a better way to celebrate your memories with custom photo books and calendars. Lulu has always listened to our customers and we strive to provide the very best...
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How to stay fresh when writing becomes work
When you do something professionally, whether it’s a full time gig that pays the bills or part-time work to get that walking-around money, it can become monotonous. To be honest, the odds are that it...
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The artistic possibilities of self-publishing span far and wide
Two articles concerned with the question of the artistic possibilities of self-publishing a book caught my attention this week. Courtesy of Redux.com The first was a testimonial by Mark Bastable...
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Are eBooks Bad For Kids?
[Photo via Mashable]In the eyes of many parents, there’s just something wrong with the image of their child hunched over a tablet computer, whizzing through a program with the tip of their finger. Upon...
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SiDiM…the future of DRM software
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the landing, holding a bowl of lather on which a glass and a razor were crossed.” This is not the first sentence of James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece Ulysses....
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What not to do when writing children’s books
This post has been graciously contributed by Maggie Pagratis, author of “Barnaby and his Brittle Bones” and “Yawny Bear”. Several years ago I went on a children’s-book-making binge. Once I got the hang...
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