NOVEMBER VANCOUVER WRITERS’ MIXER LOOKS AT THE VALUE OF CRITIQUE GROUPS How to form or become a member of an exceptional critique group will be the topic of the November 1st Vancouver Writers Mixer at Cover to Cover Books, 1817 Main Street in Vancouver, WA (www.covertocoverbooks.net). The free event runs from 5:00–6:30 p.m. Vancouver areaContinue reading “Vancouver Writers”
Daily Archives: October 24, 2008
My Front Yard
Thoreau wrote in “Autumnal Tints” Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage. There is no account of such a phenomenon in English poetry, because the trees acquire but few bright colors there. I’ve heard that some folks don’t think California has seasons. That we don’t have the fall colors.Continue reading “My Front Yard”
Are Kindles Green?
I follow a number of blogs. One is The Writer’s Edge, in a post titled “Watching Books,” Richard Curtis writes” …the high cost and environmental wastefulness of printing manuscripts motivated editors to try reading books on desktop or laptop computer screens…Recently I have heard many an editor rave about the virtues of the Sony (andContinue reading “Are Kindles Green?”
Nullius in Verba 