Writers and Editors

Still preparing your taxes? If you have not lost your sense of humor altogether, check out A Tax Form for the Marginally Employed, Sam Potts timely piece of Op-Art (New York Times, April 13, 2010). For those qualified to use Schedule BFaS  Read More 

The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference explores emerging trends in digital (ebook) publishing. You can watch and listen to many of the talks online. Here below are links for the TOC Conference) 2010. Also:
Round-up Day 1 (Mike Rankin) Read More 

The Web is wonderful for tracking down music from a certain place or period, and sometimes you can actually listen to bits of the music. Here are some good sites for finding vintage music:
• Billboard’s #1 Song on Any Given Date in History  Read More 

By popular request (feel free to comment or suggest other titles), good gift books for creative people:
• Books for Writers and Editors: http://bit.ly/bookswe
• Books for Writers:http://bit.ly/booksw
• Books for Fiction Writers or Editors: http://bit.ly/booksfiction
• Books for book clubs (or good reading): http://bit.ly/clubbooks
• Books of and about Narrative Nonfiction: http://bit.ly/NarrativeNonfiction
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Check out Columbia Journalism Review's piece by Craig Silverman: The Counter-Plagiarism Handbook: Tips for writers and editors on how to avoid or detect journalistic plagiarism (Feb. 26, 2010). That's Craig Silverman of Regret the Error (Mistakes happen).
Some additional items of interest Read More