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: Writing
Comments and suggestions on writing.
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…
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…
I’ve talked to a few authors and editors who wish to create custom templates for iBooks Author, well beyond what is possible making minor changes to fonts. To create a custom template with altered background images and formatting, first create a simple iBook using an existing template. If you are…
I have been working in iBooks Author and finding it fairly good for basic tasks. However, the moment you want a bit extra from the program, it does fall short. Then again, the ePub 2 format also falls short in numerous areas. The “.iba” (iBooks) and “.epub” formats are nothing…
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…
Brad Geagley is the author of two mysteries published by Simon & Schuster: Year of the Hyenas (2005) and Day of the False King (2006). Brad has recently written and self-published a new, noir thriller, The Stand In, which appeared on Kindle and eBook in December 2011. The new mystery…
The future is digital, no matter how much we might resist. My wife and I will always be “book” readers. You know, those things that collect a bit of dust, take up space, and weigh a lot. There is and always will be something nice about the tactile act of…
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…