Writing that argues, explains, or records. Authors on structuring a nonfiction book and finding the spine that holds it together.
AIVesuvius Day, August 24, marks the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. Almost everything we know about that day comes from two letters Pliny the Younger wrote to Tacitus, and AI is now reading the scrolls the…
NonfictionA chapter is as long as one complete thought, and a thousand words is plenty when the thought is finished. Keep with next and real heading styles stop a manuscript from fighting you through every revision.
Fiction WritingEvery documentary reviewed on this site, ranked by the rating its review carries. Natural history, true crime, sport, surveillance, and the two films that got a conviction overturned and a genocide described on camera.
Business BooksNobody warned me that becoming a manager would feel like being handed the keys to a spaceship and told to fly it while already in orbit. I first became one in 1981.
Critical ThinkingIt began around 2000 as a couple dozen HTML pages and grew across 25 years into a book. Here is the story behind my moral critique of the digital age.
Critical ThinkingAn episode of Ancient Aliens started it. Here is the story behind my unsparing field guide to conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and the machinery that sells them.
NonfictionMojo Books and Records near USF is Tampa's largest used and new book and record store, about forty-five hundred square feet, running since 2007. Books, vinyl, an artisan coffee bar, and a buying counter open noon to six every day…
Book WritingPeople assume the range is a problem. What transfers between a security book and a memoir is almost everything that matters.
LibrariesSeminole Community Library opens at eight in the morning four days a week and is open Sundays, which almost nothing else in the county manages. Two floors shared with the college, a quiet upper level, free first-come study rooms, and…
BookstoresBack in the Day Books splits its stock between new bestsellers and rare, collectible, and out of print material kept behind glass. The owner is a Clearwater native and former lawyer who ran the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association for two…
AI WritingA how-to book succeeds or fails on one thing: does the reader achieve the result. That means writing from the reader's side, not the expert's.
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