With the opening of the movie “The Help” this week – a beloved book now a movie with a huge all-star cast- I began wondering what is next for author Kathryn Stockett.  After all, “The Help”  was rejected over 60 times before it was an unexpected success. Well, it seems her next book will follow…

Sure, Mark Zuckerberg keeps insisting Facebook is not trying to take over the world through social media, but today Facebook just got into the publishing biz -sort of. Facebook has acquired an ebook company, Push Pop Press. They creative interactive ebooks for iPads. Push Pop has already worked with the likes of Al Gore on…

A  couple of years have passed since I read the painful yet  laugh-out-loud memoir “Angry Conversations With God.” Written by talented actress Susan Isaacs, it chronicled her struggles with  God and  framed those struggles in the context of marriage counseling. This week I have been hanging out with Susan in a workshop and have had fun discussing…

I am at one of my favorite places on earth, The Glen Workshop West in Santa Fe. This is my third year of schmoozing with authors and  other aspiring writers such as myself.  If you want to hang out with “Girl Meets God” author Lauren Winner or  illustrator Barry Moser, this is the place. While…

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