Read an E-Book Week
Read an E-Book Week is the first full week of March. The honest case for e-books, why you don't really own them, and how they compare to print you keep.
ObservancesRead an E-Book Week is the first full week of March. The honest case for e-books, why you don't really own them, and how they compare to print you keep.
ObservancesIndependent Bookstore Day is the last Saturday in April. Why indie and used bookstores matter, why they are fading, and why one writer still seeks them out.
ObservancesInternational Children's Book Day is April 2. Why children's books are so hard to write, how young adult differs, and how one writer got his start.
ObservancesDictionary Day is October 16. Why a misunderstood word corrupts everything you read, the value of looking words up, and what Weird Al's Word Crimes gets right.
ObservancesAudiobook Appreciation Month is June. How swapping useless screen time for audiobooks turns dead time into reading time, from a thousand-book collector.
ObservancesNational Letter Writing Day is December 7. An honest take on the lost art of letters, why email counts too, and the craft hidden in greeting cards.
ObservancesNational Haiku Poetry Day is April 17. An honest look at haiku from a writer who doesn't get it, what its fans see, and the one lesson any writer can use.
ObservancesWorld Read Aloud Day is the first Wednesday in February. From bedtime stories to critique groups, why reading aloud is the best editing tool a writer has.
ObservancesRead Across America Day is March 2. A lifelong reader on how books protected him as a child, how taste changes over a life, and why a book matters to a kid.
ObservancesI Love to Write Day is November 15. Where a love of writing comes from, and the truth that love gets you to the page but habit gets you to book one hundred.
ObservancesHobbit Day is September 22. What Tolkien's hobbits teach about character and worldbuilding, an honest take from a writer who never read The Hobbit.
ObservancesNational Tolkien Reading Day is March 25. The boxed set I saved for, the boring opening I almost quit, the eagles plot hole, and what Tolkien taught me.
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