Tuesday, March 9, 2021
When my book
The Writerâs Process was first published almost five years ago, it had a rocky launch into the world. A professional reviewer gave it a terrible review, basically questioning why
anyone would want to read a book like this.
They also criticized my writing, calling the prose
lugubrious. Ouch!
That review was an all-you-can-eat buffet for my inner critic. As a new author, I had to work my way past it. (Happily, the book has found its audience of people who
do, in fact, want to read it. Now, I find the episode both funny and educational.)
The Straits Times
Book Stack: Wrap up February with these 10 new reads
Priyanka Chopra Jonas memoir Unfinished (left) and Chang-Rae Lee s sixth novel My Year Abroad.PHOTOS: MICHAEL JOSEPH, RIVERHEAD BOOKS
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Nobody Owes Us Attention Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I have a quirky book problem. Once I get through the first few chapters of a book, I feel obligated to keep going, even if Iâve entirely lost interest.
I start skimming, flipping through pagesâdoing anything so that I feel like I reached the end legitimately. It seems absurd even as I do it, but if I page through to the last page, then Iâve met some kind of obligation and given the author the benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes I canât even do that. My Kindle is cluttered with the relics of books that I cannot quite delete. Letâs not even talk about my bookshelves.
A viral sensation Share CLOSE The covers of two nonfiction books by US author Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone (left) and The Hot Zone. [Photo provided to China Daily]
American author Richard Preston s latest best-seller is a riveting true-life tale of human courage in the face of the Ebola crises in 1976 and 2014, Wang Ru reports.
Doctor Jean-François Ruppol, the then head of the Belgian government s medical aid mission to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976, wrote these chilling words in his journal: I have just condemned myself to death. The sentence was written after he helped deliver a baby in Yambuku village, Bumba town of the country s Equateur province.
Amazon Decoded by David Gaughran (2nd Edition) From: Thursday, February 18, 2021
As an indie author, I have a silent business partner that is wealthy and powerful, sometimes high-handed, and occasionally mysterious.
That partner is Amazon.
David Gaughran is one of my go-to sources for insight into Amazon. His advice has helped me better understand how to use Amazon in my book launches and promotions. So when he published a second edition of his book
Amazon Decoded, I got it right away, even though Iâd read the first edition. And Iâm glad I didâthe second edition is filled with much more detail.