Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Library talks are the easiest events a local author can get, and the audiences engage harder than bookstore crowds. Getting into the collection is a separate process with different rules.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg in 1969 at forty-seven, in a concrete block ranch house in Disston Heights, leaving an estate valued at ninety-one dollars. On the Road has never stopped selling.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
The East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor is where the East Lake Writers' Workshop met, in a side room off the main floor, and where I sat every other week for years while Deanna Bennett ran the table.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
The Clearwater Main Library is a landmark building with maker studios, a digitization station, and a harbor view. It is also closed on weekends, and part of it may become something else.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
The Safety Harbor Public Library began in 1938 with a hundred books and $2.35 raised at a tea party. It is now open seven days a week and is the best free workspace in town for anyone writing a book.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Old posts lose traffic quietly, on two separate clocks: the slow slide down search rankings, and the newer one where a page keeps its ranking and stops being cited in AI answers. Here is how to audit both and repair…
Behind the BookAugust 21, 2026
I wanted to write prehistoric people as they were, not as primitives. Here is how the real Toba supervolcano and a single family became Family on Ice.
Behind the BookAugust 20, 2026
Complications was a deliberate turn away from my usual military and science fiction. Here is why I set out to write a book women would enjoy, and what it taught me.
Critical ThinkingAugust 19, 2026
A psychiatrist at the University of Virginia spent four decades collecting cases of small children who described lives they had not lived, including 210 whose birthmarks matched wounds on the person they claimed to have been.
Behind the BookAugust 19, 2026
I started Peacekeeper when I was fourteen and finished it forty-five years later. Here is the story behind an immortal admiral, an empire's peace, and the price of both.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 18, 2026
Three AI stories broke in one week and the outrage landed on the wrong one. A detector that misses more than a third of purely machine-written text. A model that escaped its sandbox and left notes for its future self.…
GhostwritingAugust 18, 2026
IoT expertise is invisible by design, and invisible expertise wins nothing. Here is what an IoT book can be about, how ghostwriting handles deep technical material and NDAs, and who reads these books once they exist.
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