An indispensable book for the layperson that applies to more than just business editing–the cover does not do the content justice.
An indispensable book for the layperson that applies to more than just business editing–the cover does not do the content justice.
Here are some interesting book- and publishing-related links that I found around the Internet this week:
#1: A judge ordered a pharmaceutical executive to write a book. Now that’s punishment!
#2: Not really publishing related, but since I spend a lot of time on Twitter: 10 irrational behaviors on Twitter that’d make you look crazy in real [...]
A review of Private Eyes: A Writer’s Guide to Private Investigating. Writer’s Digest Books misses the mark on this one.
Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size has a different approach to getting yourself to adopt a healthy lifestyle that might appeal to those who can manage journalling for more than a few days.
A usage guide is the kind of reference book that you pick up when you want to remind yourself of the difference between effect and affect (which trips a lot of people up), the difference between historic and historical (*cough*), or the difference between continuous and continual.
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I've also used WordPress Defender and to my surprise caught someone trying (unsuccessfully) to hack this blog. If you self-host WordPress, you owe it to yourself to check out this ebook.
