The Writer’s Coin

This book took me a LONG time to get through. It’s been on my sidebar under “Currently Reading” for a really long time. More on that later. But anyway, I finally made my way through it and all of the stories inside. The book is a collection of short stories that are supposedly the “best [...]

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Well, I don’t know what I expected when I had my “readers” pick my next book, but in my dreams I hoped hundreds of people would be compelled by this incredibly original idea (which it really isn’t) and the chance to help out a reader who has been struggling to find a great book to [...]

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Recently I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s made me think about the value of reading a “bad” book vs. just putting it away and picking up one you potentially might like.
I used to read through any book no matter what, but I think since I realized that books are infinite and you [...]

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I’ve always been curious about how editors and writers develop and maintain such a curious relationship: I’ll do all the creative part of it and get all the accolades, you do all the backbreaking work that shapes that creative something into something much, much better than it was. Then we’ll do it over and over [...]

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Here is a really great article from an issue that’s a few weeks old. It’s about how using checklists in emergency rooms helps save lives.
The first thing I thought of after reading it was, “How can I use this at work to make my/our job more efficient/better?”
Check it out because I think anyone in any [...]

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I’m intrigued by Obama—he may or may not be the president I’ve been wanting for a long time. Maybe.
But even if he isn’t, if this whole honesty and change bit of his is just that, a bit, then at least he’s the first one to really make me believe it.
In the piece, the crux of [...]

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