The consistency in the Dummies series has a lot more to do with formatting than textual content. From the beginning of the series in 1991,1 different authors and editors have been used for different books. And now that there are gazillions of titles offering instruction in everything from fishing to Einstein, such consistency would be […]
Now that I have read several books in the Jack Reacher series, it is hard to believe I have yet to review one. But it’s true! This series is immensely popular, but I had never heard of Lee Child until I caught my mom reading one of his books. Then I got a bunch of
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Sometimes one book leads to another, for a reader as well as a writer. I had seen this book on bookstore shelves, but did not decide to read it until I saw it recommended in Jack Canfield’s The Principles of Success, which I have reviewed here also. Like last week’s book Way of the Peaceful Warrior, this one also
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Originally published in 1980, this revised edition came out in 2000. A movie adaptation with Nick Nolte as “Socrates” was released in 2006. Though it sounds odd for a writer to admit (except for screenwriters), sometimes the movie is better than the book. My fiction writing is more influenced by the movies I have seen
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The true principles of success are not new. Most of the ideas in this book and the many others that fill the self-help shelves of bookstores have been around for decades and even centuries. What Jack Canfield has done, going all the way back to his first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, which spawned a
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If you don’t already know about Goodreads.com, you’re about to be amazed. I learned about it as part of my continuing education as a writer. Since the site aggregates booklovers, it’s a great place to have your book featured. One way to do that is to give one or more copies away. If you are
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The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Our of the Rejection Pile After the calm coaching of Dan Millman (former Gymnastics coach) and Sierra Prasada’s The Creative Compass: Writing Your Way from Inspiration to Publication, the tone of this book seems harsh. That is not a bad thing, it is just different. If I
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This book is a couple of years old as of this writing. But I have to review it because it has been such a great help to me in working on my novel the past couple of months. Dan Millman is the author of the bestselling self-help book The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and
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