Ellen Cassedy's generous & inspired monthly column of writing tips for She Writes(P.S. Cassedy's guest-blog post for Madam Mayo, 5 Links to Learn Yiddish.)Hugh Howey's Author EarningsJane Friedman shows the changing face of publishing in 5 charts(This is why so much of my focus these past few years has been on publishing Kindles and making podcasts.)The...
Cyberflanerie: Free Sound Clips, Free Images & Free Fonts Editions
3Dumb by Tension Type on Font SquirrelFree sound clipsVia Joan Stewart's newsletter, a link to 53+ Free Image Sources for Your Blog and Social Media postsFont Squirrel!More Free fontsCOMME...
Cyberflanerie: Blogs Noted Edition
Mexican urban legend: John Kachuba on La PascualitaAlmost as gruesome: Andrew Wylie Interview in the New RepublicVia the ever-fabulous Swiss-Miss: Tiny Town Is Inventing Bus StopsBrigid Amos has a lovely new blog, Nebraska NotionPS My favorite place in Nebraska, CarhengeSeth Roberts' final paper, "How Little We Know"Karen Casey Fitzjerrel's From...
Cyberflanerie: Print All Over Me Pants Edition
So if you've been following this blog you know I've been raving about Print All Over Me (printallover.me), as a kind of LOLcats x designy x Instagram x China = future of fashion (a mention here and blog post about the sweatshirts and some sweatpants here). Herewith some sweatpants...
Cyberflanerie: Instacart Mexico City, Anti-Surveillance Mask, Lil Crabe the Flying Pretzel Man & etc
Not. I mean, it's not here in Mexico City yet. So my registering and trying out Instacart for a California zipcode was sort of totally pointless except for the fact that, wow, what a user interface!! Years ago I tried a couple of on-line grocery services, they both were...
Guest-blogger Heidi M. Thomas: A Roundup of 5 Things to Know About Old-Time Rodeo Cowgirls
As I plow on with my Far West Texas book and related "Marfa Mondays" Podcasting Project, I am also finding my way into a whole new literary subculture and, through Women Writing the West, meeting, if only on-line for now, some very accomplished novelists. One of them, who also...
Cyberflanerie: Better Books, Books of Note, Decluttering Books, Rare Books
The NYT's Charles M. Blow says, Reading Books is Fundamental.Making Better Books:The Book Designer's archive of articles "practical advice to help build better books"Chronicling America in the Library of Congress (newspaper archives)Book Aesthete TumblrBooks of Note:Sam Quinones'...
Una ventana al mundo invisible (A Window to the Invisible World): Master Amajur and the Smoking Signatures
My go-to antiquarian bookstore in Mexico CityRe: The bibliography for my recent book-- now in paperback and Kindle-- Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual, which is being updated this week.Window...
Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe by Gregory Gibson
Apropos of the splendid Demon of the Waters, three topics in one blog post today: (1) Blogs (2) Kindles and (3) Literary Travel Memoirs. (1) Blogs: Oh, so many (or few?) good ones. Seems most bloggers never quite hit a stride; they sprint into the blogoshere,...
The New Now Not Secret But Super Special Ingredient in My Writing Process
His middle name is Quetzalpugtl.>Read more about the secret ingredie...
Cyberflanerie: Chapeaux, UFOs & Other Sundry Communications Edition
+Oh, how civilization has declined! Anita Loos' astonishing hat collection, of all things. +Blomqvist 's Swedish UFO site on Kripal's article, "Visions of the Impossible" and book, Authors of the Impossible, and more. Great links to Kripal.+Jacques F. Vallee on Boing Boing and home page.+Seth Godin on Really Bad Powerpoint and...
