Laura Smith is the multi-talented, multi-faceted founder of a hugely successful blog, Laura’s Books & Blogs. She’s guest posted on my blog, I’ve guest posted on hers, and I also follow her posts with the sort of devotion I show to very few online outlets. This woman is a pro and a fine human being….
Month: November 2022
Better Air Quality Monitoring = Better Air Quality
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is there any proof that recent advances in air quality monitoring and the widespread sharing of the results have materially reduced air pollution? — Mitch B., New Haven, CT
Write Where and When You Can
a guest post by Kate Brenton Why is this advice from author Kate Brenton so important? Because there’s never enough time. Because family needs us. Because we have to make money. Because we’re exhausted. Because everything else takes priority over our little writing hobby. Writers need a space to create, and yet, if we get…
b.read.crumbs, the seasonal issue
My friend Nicole got me through the pandemic with her calls that always cheered me up. She is stunningly funny, often slipping a zinger in when you least expect it. She is also a brilliant writer, those zingers landing on a soft spot you didn’t know you had, leading to a wellspring of emotion in the middle…
Battery Storage: Bottleneck to Solar, Wind Power Development
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that a shortage of batteries is slowing down the development of solar and wind power here in the U.S.? If so, what are we doing to ramp up battery production if anything? — J. Wilson, Chicago, IL
All’s Fair in Love and Humor
a guest post by Dorothy Rosby Humor is subjective. I know this because some people don’t laugh at my hilarious jokes. Dorothy Rosby is a professional humorist (I’ll bet she’d find my jokes funny), and she’s generous enough to share some tricks of the comedic trade. But wait! There’s more. She’s also offering a free…
b.read.crumbs, the focus issue
Malcolm Glass and I met eleventy-leven years ago, when he was teaching creative writing at Austin Peay State University. It was in one of his classes, during a writing exercise, that I first used the town of Jesus Creek in a piece of fiction. Malcolm was already a well-known writer in his field in those days, and his reputation…
Is that a coyote in your urban neighborhood?
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why are coyote sightings so much more common in urban areas these days? Should I be worried about kids and pets outside? Is this a bad sign for the environment at large and is there a humane way to deter these carnivores from residential…
Tips for Writing Places Where You Don’t Live
a guest post by Amber A. Logan We’ve all heard the advice to “write what you know,” but is that always the best way to tell your story? And what about “write where you know?” Do we have to limit our settings to that tiny little spot on the map where we live? Amber Logan,…
Dead on Arrival: What to do Once a Novel Dies on Submission
a guest post by Jessica Stilling It wasn’t until the last night of my Novel Writing class I taught while working on my upcoming novel Between Before and After, that two students confessed their deepest novel writing secret. We’d been discussing the perils of trying to get published and what it’s like to have an…
