March 11th, 2010
books . carbon footprint . ebooks . green . reading . technology . Zumaya Publications
Books and Reading
March 11th, 2010
books . carbon footprint . ebooks . green . reading . technology . Zumaya Publications
February 15th, 2010
books . Publishing . reading . Writing . Zumaya Publications
The First Chapters Club
It’s not a tale of money, revenge, and it’s not modeled after the story of three women intent on plucking their husbands dry. But the First Chapters Club could lead you to laughter, tears, passion, fear, discovery, love, travel, murder, adventure, ogres, fairies, evil, aliens, evil aliens, zombies, samurais, and much, much more. Zumaya Publications has ... August 26th, 2009
books . ebooks . Publishing . reading
The Dawn of ebooks… again and again
I sat on a panel at WorldCon this year on whether the future belongs to ebooks. It was almost an exact repeat of the panel I sat on 10 years ago. I was the only one who was one hundred per cent pro ebooks. The entire panel resulted in a diatribe from other panelists against ... May 21st, 2009
EBM . Espresso Book Machine . Publishing . Writing . Zumaya Publications
Zumaya joins Espresso Project
The following is a press release from my publisher, Zumaya Publications. I’m particularly pleased that there are three places in Canada on trial: Late in April, Zumaya Publications completed the paperwork that places all our titles currently being printed at Lightning Source into their pilot program with On-Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine. Other ... May 6th, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe . horror . mood . setting . Writing
How to create mood with words
I recently finished Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and was astonished and amazed at the flowery prose. At first I thought well, yeah, he wrote it in 1839 so that explains it. But I’ve read other Poe stories and none of it was so over the top. So I reread ...
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About Me
I was born in Montreal, Quebec (that’s in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small Quebec Laurentians town called Mont-Laurier. I didn’t stay there long, though, and studied and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, where I obtained my Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.Throughout the years, I’ve been a housekeeper, ...
