Book reviews allow us to share more than our opinions about specific books or authors: they are an opportunity to defend what we consider the qualities a good book should have, while often giving us easy examples of the traits a book should not posses. A well written review offers…
Category: General
Not about writing or reading; more generalized information.
Publishers are still relevant in the Amazon-dominated world of book retailing, but they are losing their influence in some of the most important areas of publishing — and they will either adapt or fade into the smallest niches. Academic publishing is a huge industry, from peer-review journals to textbooks. There…
The Tameri Guide for Writers had fallen behind the times. In Internet time, we were a generation behind the latest design and feature trends. The site had been moved to a three-column “fluid” layout a few years ago, accommodating a variety of computer screen sizes from 800 to 1024 pixels…
Many great writers need great editors. I recently watched biographies of Mark Twain and Jules Verne. Both of these writers relied on collaboration to craft their famous works into masterpieces. Pierre-Jules Hetzel edited and published the works of Verne. According to the biography, Hetzel was involved in every stage of…
For those wondering, we have not stopped blogging and nothing horrible has happened to either me or my wife. We’re not dead… we’re moving again. Unlike last summer, when we moved from one state to another, this time we are moving about two miles from our temporary residence to a…
Over on the Tameri Guide for Writers, Susan is currently updating the “Usage and Abusage” pages, along with the “Style” pages. As we revise these pages the content will include discussions of when various sources disagree and what our personal preferences are. The problem with any guides to language is…
Are you a writer? We want to share your story (about writing). Susan and I have been swamped much of the last year, but we really want to make the Tameri blog a great place to learn about the craft of writing and the business of writing. It isn’t enough…
I’m a full-time writer, not a traditional English professor. Thankfully, I’m employed in a wonderful English department that does embrace writing, from academic to mass market. I do not have APA and MLA formatting memorized. I don’t care if you end a sentence with a preposition as long as readers…
I’ve come to the conclusion that most websites need to hire a vast array of moderators for their online comments section. Mostly to delete the stupid comments. Although I fully protect everyone’s freedom of speech and their freedom to come across as an absolute idiot in public or private, some…
I am about to teach a course on “The Essay” and that leads me to ask what is a blog? I know that blogging platforms, like WordPress, can be used to share fiction, poetry, technical manuals, and more, but in its general form of personal reflections what is a blog?…