Click this to see why kids should never ever ever be allowed any where near books.
Seriously, can’t they just play with rocks, or logs or something?
Ok, just kidding. Actually, this is why some people shouldn’t have kids. Note that the (awesome) parent is considering taping it back up and leaving it in the drop [...]

For the writers of you out there who desire to avoid trope and cliche’, this Slate article is well worth the read. Apparently, nearly every novel written in the English language in the past 100 years has a dog barking in the distance at some point.
Ok, maybe I exaggerate, but this breakdown of dogs [...]

This is a guest-post by author L.M.Preston, who’s Young Adult Sci Fi novel Explorer X-Alpha launched recently, and who’s next novel The Pack will be released soon.www.phenomenalonepress.com
Nano (National Novel Writing Month) from November 1st-30th. It’s the writing frenzy where you kick out a large number of words to hopefully finish a novel in record time. [...]

Irony has been a big deal for the past, say, 10 years. Or, longer even. Ironic t-shirts and trucker hats and debates over whether something is or is not ironic are familiar to most of us.
But it gets a little confusing, doesn’t it? What is irony? When and how do you [...]

Here is a video of a speech by IndieBookMan hero Richard Nash. If you care about writing or publishing at all, you must must must watch this.

NOTE: This is an online broadcast… you don’t even have to leave your house! Just tune in at http://umbrellaradio.org/, relax and listen…
Our favorite Baltimore related zine (OK, our favorite zine altogether,) Smile Hon, You’re In Baltimore, published by Eight Stone Press, is launching it’s latest issue this month: Waste. We wanted to help them celebrate, [...]