The Blue Kitchen blog has written a wonderful review for LInda Steidel’s For Every Season There Is A Salad cookbook. Along with the great article, the include one recipe from the book with Linda’s notes. Take a look at the blog for yourself: the Blue Kitchen review. Great photos and great food.

October 2010 will see the release of another BRIO title, Dutch Coffee Shop, a novel by Jay Scully and Ned Germany.  Suspense, adventure, and hidden identities can be found all the way through Dutch Coffee Shop, and it won’t let up, not until the last page.
Nine years ago, William Demsey’s brother Jimmy faked his own [...]

This week an appalled and offended mother ignited a fire storm in Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Florida over Chris Abani’s book, Graceland, which was on a tenth grade summer reading list. Her argument was that a scene in the book, depicting a sexual act between two characters, was inappropriate for tenth graders to read. [...]

The acclaimed author Ryu Murakami has recently announced that he will publish his newest novel, “A Singing Whale”, exclusively through the Apple iBookstore. The Wall Street Journal reports that Murakami will most likely release a hardcover version of the novel after its release in e-book format.
Ryu Murakami is one of my favorite authors, so I [...]

A short and sweet article over at The Huffington Post, by Jennie Nash, on what it means to write a “big book”.
As in the example she gave, “big” doesn’t always mean “eipc”. When you “think big” you should be thinking about character development, before the development of a big story. When the characters are solid, [...]

This week Linda Steidel’s For Every Season There Is A Salad was reviewed in the Orange County Register. The review is nothing but a glowing one and emphasizes what anyone who reads the book will find out: the versatility of Linda’s salads and what you can do with the tools she gives you.
Check it out [...]

Would you buy a Mac computer just to upload your book to the iBookstore? Apparently that’s what Apple wants you to do if you plan to use their newly opened self-publishing service for the iBookstore. As their requirements say, you must:

Have a valid iTunes Store account with a credit card on file.
Be running Quicktime v7.0.3 [...]

On Tuesday this week, Garrison Keillor, that writer of all things quaint yet powerful, wrote, in his Baltimore Sun column, something along the lines of self-publishing being the death of writing as we know it. Or rather, it will be the death of the “martyred” writer; as he says, a “tortured [genius]” who uses manual [...]

Create Space, Amazon and the Kindle. BookSurge and Lulu.com; and of course the iPad and iBookstore. E-publishers, e-books, and e-readers are out there and they all offer more and more options for self-publishing.
Now there is Pubit.
This summer, Barnes and noble (B&N) will unleash their version of e-publishing, Pubit. Writers write the book, create the cover [...]

There is a lot of harsh criticism in the industry aimed at self-publishing companies, and most of it is based on the perceived idea of what vanity publishing is.
“Vanity publishing” is no new concept. It’s been around for years. These days the words “self-publishing” have come to be something synonymous with “vanity publishing”. The lines [...]