Category Archives: How-to

Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us by Jessica Page Morrell (Review)

Developmental editor explains to authors why they’re not getting published and how to fix their novels.

Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian (Review)

Full of information and written in a conversational style, this book is a great resource for anyone writing website content.

Start & Run Your Own Internet Research Business by Gerhard Kautz (Review)

This book is good but not quite what I was expecting. I wanted to see information on Internet research as a business set this book apart from a general home-business book and, for me, it just doesn’t do it.

Do the Web Write by Dan Furman (Review)

A good primer on what to do and not do when writing your business site.

The Hungry Scientist Handbook by Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns (Review)

Book review of The Hungry Scientist Handbook. Book is full of projects like edible caramel undies, temperature sensitive coasters and ice cream made with liquid nitrogen. Fun to flip through, but most projects look like too much work for the end result. If you’re a tinkerer it might be the book you’re looking for.

20 Master Plots by Ronald T. Tobias (Review)

Released January 2003 (Writers Digest Books) * 240 pages * ISBN 13: 9781582972398 There are a couple books on writing that I make a point of rereading at least once every year. It’s not that I don’t retain the information, but I like to bring it out of whichever neurons it’s been hiding in when…