Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I wasn’t as excited about the imminent (and subsequent) arrival of my new Kindle as I should have been, mostly because I knew the file management system hadn’t changed and that meant that my use of the Sony 505 wouldn’t change either. Initial impressions of the Amazon box are that it’s small, much smaller than [...]

I have two confessions today. One is that I went shopping this morning for pants that I can wear to cocktail parties Monday in NYC. I didn’t find any because I’m TOO SHORT. Kohls is having some great clearance sales and I tried on an embarrassing number of pants but they all were too long [...]

Last week in the comments of a Dear Author thread, I told one of the commenters I’d take some pictures of the Sony and the Kindle, for a visual comparison of size, as well as the best visual comparison of the screen images as I could get. Luckily, I have a sunroom that gets good [...]

I’ve had these two comments flagged to answer in their own post, so I thought I’d better get to them! Wyzwmn asked a question if you please why would you buy an e-reader over a laptop or notebook? wouldn’t it just be one more tool to haul around? I actually have a laptop. And an [...]

An ebook if you could read the first chapter? The discussion going on at Smart Bitches has got me thinking about this again, and I’ve asked it before but not gotten much response. Would you rather read the first chapter than an excerpt on a publisher’s website? People often do the first 10 page test [...]

I’ve been in a serious reading slump. Not that I’m not reading, but all my reading for almost 6 weeks has been almost exclusively work–edits and submissions (though I did read and finish Right Here, Right Now by HelenKay Dimon. Fabulous dialogue!). I have some great books that I want to read but my motivation, [...]