Sean Power, of Ottawa, Ontario is happily reunited with his stolen laptop, thanks to free tracking software called Prey. According to HuffingtonPost, Power received a report from Prey indicating that his laptop was in use at a Brooklyn, NY bar. Power called the...
Find The Right Pricepoint, Find An Audience
Amazon.com's top 50 digital best-seller list featured 15 books priced at $5 or less last Wednesday afternoon. Louisville businessman John Locke, for example, a part-time thriller writer whose signature series features a former CIA assassin, claimed seven of those...
Harrisonian Heroics
"Frankly, a writer should be a hero of consciousness." -Jim Harrison In 1986, novelist and poet Jim Harrison entertained Jim Fergus, an interviewer from The Paris Review, at his Michigan farm over a period of five days. Harrison was busy bird hunting and preparing...
Faulkner In ’56
The Paris Review is an amazing publication. And now that its interview archives are available for free on the web, it's an astounding digital resource for writers and fans of literature. Would you like to hear about the craft of writing from the likes of William...
Now For The Good News
This post is the countermeasure to my last (mostly depressing) post about the need for more high paying jobs in Oregon. Ben Jacklet, managing editor of Oregon Business, believes the recession is nearly over in the U.S. and in Oregon. He says the state gained 42,000...