How to set your writing goal for NaNoWriMo
Author: CyndiLHughes
23+ Must-See Texas Book Festival Authors
One of the true signs of fall in my book is the annual announcement of the Texas Book Festival author lineup. For me, that goes all of the way back to the first TBF in 1996. A bit of backstory: I had the good fortune to land my dream job as the director of the […]
How Libraries Get Their (Virtual) Hands on e-Books
A peek at how libraries get e-books
My Virtual Book Expo, Part III: Interviews on View
Good news for those of us who didn’t make it to Book Expo America 2016, which wrapped up last week: PBS’s Book View Now conducted interviews with a plethora of authors! I can’t help but think that even I’d been at BEA, I still would have had to watch these afterward! Here’s a short list: […]
My Virtual Book Expo, Part II: Big Books
What to read, what to read? Check out big books at Book Expo 2016: Publishers Weekly calls it for Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad) and Ann Patchett (Commonwealth), among others. No complaints from me there. So glad to see Mr. Whitehead making a big splash — well deserved! Here’s the PW take on the best of show […]
My Virtual BookExpo 2016: Part I
In which this book lover has to take in Book Expo America 2016 via the interwebs!
My 2015 Taaah-DAAAH List
I’m ringing in the new year by reflecting on my personal Ta-Da List for 2015
The BEST Best Books List of 2014
Bookbub may just have put together the real best books list of 2014 in a, well, novel way: The aggregated 23 different Best of 2014 lists and then ranked the titles based on the number of times each book was listed.
What I Did at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Guess what I did at the Texas Book Festival?
The Afterglow of the Writers’ League Conference
WHAT a weekend at the Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference! I’m still taking in much of what I heard on the panels and at Jeff Abbott’s wonderful keynote talk followed by Joshilyn Jackson’s hilarious recounting of how she came to get an agent and get published. It’s all still percolating in my […]