It’s autumn in the South. That means it’s college football season, and there are many get-togethers to watch games and spend time with friends. I was at one of those get-togethers on Saturday. People always ask questions when they find out what I do for a living. During one conversation, a fellow asked me a  »  Read More

Ten years from now, when someone picks up your book, what will they think of you? The woman on the other end of the phone line paused for a long time. Then she said, “No, I’ve never written a book before.” “Well,” I said, “there’s a book out there by someone with your name. I came across it  »  Read More

Self-publishing has exploded in the last decade. Bowker indicates that ten times as many books were self-published in 2021 as in 2011. Part of the reason is that self-publishing has become easier and easier to do. Self-publishing has a lot of benefits. Authors like the control self-publishing gives them over every  »  Read More

Quick! What do Charles Dickens, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Albert Einstein have in common? They all loved to walk. So did Claude Monet, Ernest Hemingway, Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and Marie Curie. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of creative folks loved to walk. There must be something to it. There  »  Read More