Well, it’s all official, I’ve gone and created my own publishing company. Technically, I created and named Inheritance Press when I self-published my blog book earlier this year. But in recent months I’ve been branching out. I’ve formalized Inheritance Press as a business entity, sought public input on my logo design, created a website, and [...]

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For those of you who are following such things, the book to which I have contributed an article, Best of The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions: Top Articles from the eMagazine’s First Five Years, is officially scheduled for release on April 11. It’s already listed on Amazon. Check it out! Meanwhile, a preview of the table [...]

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I confess. I’m sucked into the hype. I am one of the two million or so Muggles who pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Amazon guarantees delivery tomorrow, the book’s official release day. I will be waiting most impatiently for its arrival. Dear readers, I plan to be spending a good chunk of this [...]

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I’ve had to temporarily suspend my reads in progress in favor of writing since I only have so many hours in the day, which means no new book reviews for a while (but stay tuned, my review of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell will appear in a blog near you as soon as I [...]

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a history of that villain we all love to hate from the L. Frank Baum children’s classic, The Wizard of Oz. I hate to write a completely negative review, so I’ll start with something good. I finished it. Even that is not [...]

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I love the Harry Potter books. Let’s be absolutely clear about that. I loved this one too, every bit as much as the previous five in the series. However, a small part of me can’t help asking, as Harry matures and the storylines get darker, is this really still a children’s series? Sure, Harry at [...]

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The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) is a love story with a hugely inventive twist. Henry has a genetic disorder that causes him to travel back and forth in time, often to people and events that have significance in his life. It is thus that when Clare, as a young girl, meets Henry for the [...]

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I took my kids to the library last week and as we were going to the check-out counter, I happened to see Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls) on display. It’s a classic old favorite which occupies a very tender spot in my heart—it’s the first book I ever cried over. And I mean [...]

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If you are looking for a suspenseful spy novel, this is not it. The Broker (John Grisham) starts off intriguingly enough, with CIA pressure on a departing president to issue a full pardon for former lawyer and power broker Joel Backman. Backman, it seems, holds secrets to a mysterious and powerful satellite surveillance system whose [...]

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I read My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult on a recommendation, now that I have finally been able to (a) get my hands on it at the library, and (b) make time for some dedicated reading. What a great recommendation it was! I couldn’t put it down. It is the story of Anna Fitzgerald, a [...]

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