"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: June 16, 2022

Five things for June 16, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: April 14, 2022

Five things for April 14, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: March 17, 2022

Five things for March 17, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

Avatar: Me, in front of my bookshelves, wearing a black t-shirt that says, "runner" on it.

Stroke Me, Stroke Me — Nine Months Later

tldr: I’m doing pretty good physically now, but the mental side effects of having an unexplained stroke in the middle of a pandemic really suck. Running helps. “Go with what is. Use what happens.”

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: February 17, 2022

Five things for February 17, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: February 3, 2022

Five things for February 3, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: January 20, 2022

Five things for January 20, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

Engaging New Readers with Ebooks in Public Libraries

Public Libraries and Ebooks Redux [for Independent Publishers]

I had the pleasure of kicking off the new year by participating in IBPA’s PubU Online webinar series, presenting “Engaging New Readers with Ebooks in Public Libraries” and I’ve posted my slides and written up my main presentation here as it pulled together a few threads I haven’t addressed in one place before. Non-IBPA members and other library-curious types might find them useful as a starting point to learn more about how libraries work, and why they’re an important partner for publishers of all sizes.

Boba Fett

Refuting the Book of George

[This was originally published by About.com in its Poetry section, back in 1999, in response to the release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. It was retrieved via the Wayback Machine as About.com no longer exists, and I’m republishing it here for my own archives, but also in an initial response to Boba Fett’s return, about which I’m feeling a little ambivalent.]

"This is Fine" dog with a guillotine next to a row of stacked books and sign that says, "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas."

Five Things: January 6, 2022

Five things for January 6, 2022. That’s it! That’s the excerpt.

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