A wonderful feel-good video. Enjoy!
The ISBN Turns 50!
Last year I wrote about the ISBN and I heard the yawns. But this past week a milestone was reached and I can’t help myself. The Standard Book Numbering system turned 50 years old. That seemingly simple group of digits has had a lasting impact on our industry. Book nerds of the world unite. Let’s celebrate a half century of the ISBN! The International ISBN Agency sent out a press …
Fun Fridays – Oct. 16, 2015
Jeffrey Li and Celine Tam, ages 10 and 7 respectively, give a stunning performance of Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up.” Keep watching as it builds and builds to an exhilarating conclusion. (And if you want more, the boy did a solo a couple weeks earlier which is shown below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUJ4Y-XOeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIs0TQyaaM
Fun Fridays – October 9, 2015
Phoenix is home to the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) where there are over 6,000 instruments on display. If you are ever in town plan to visit! Today’s video is a fellow who is called Mystery Guitar Man who plays 90 of the instruments from the museum … at the same time (via some top level video editing, of course). How many of them can you name? Beside “guitar” and …
Fun Fridays – Sept 25, 2015
One of my favorite Bach compositions (Cello Suite No. 1 in G major) completely re-envisioned with a different instrument and setting and personal creativity. A great artist can take the familiar and give it a slight twist or two and make it their own. May this inspire you to do this with your writing today.
Your Post-Conference Strategy
Over 600 writers recently attended the annual ACFW conference, held this past weekend in Dallas. Many have gone home and are asking, “Now what?” What do you do when you return from a writers conference? Tell in the comments below. Meanwhile I’ll share some thoughts. Re-entry Blues Coming down from the high of a retreat or a conference can be a jolt. Especially when the daily routines kick …
Fun Fridays – Sept. 18, 2015
This is an amazing story. Sportsmanship at its best. You can’t beat the ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNv2BojVz8
Newsflash: Most Writers Don’t Make a Lot of Money
This past week the Author’s Guild released a survey revealing that 56% of their surveyed writers made less than the poverty line, when only counting writing revenue. Publisher’s Weekly reported the findings this way: “The survey, conducted this spring by the Codex Group, is based on responses from 1,674 Guild members, 1,406 of whom identified either as a full-time author, or a part-time one. The …
Fun Fridays – Sept. 11, 2015
Isn’t this is EXACTLY how you feel when a great book is over? At least he is consistent! (see the frame at the 1:19 mark) What was the last book you read that made you wish it had not ended? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEeakeXvMM