Sarah Kanning

This afternoon I heard more hand-wringing from yet another commentator (this one an author, Eric Weiner, on NPR) about the demise of paper books and the rise of electronic editions. Here’s an excerpt:
I’m confident that I’ll still get my fair share from each e-book sold. But as an author, I’m not after your money. Well, [...]

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It’s an interesting topic, and Reinhardt made it a delightful read, full of quirky asides and the kinds of details writers find eminently useful. If the story you are writing has a sword in it, you should read this book.

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I’ve been thinking about On Writing, Stephen King’s memoir/writing treatise a lot in the last two days, because Monday morning I awoke to some medium-to-severe back pain. A trip to a massage therapist didn’t help, and it felt even worse today. Grrr. In general, I lead a largely pain-free existence, and on days like these [...]

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Today I want to applaud the careful work of Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat, author of Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (which I’ll call DLIAM after this for the sake of brevity), part of Daily Life series from Greenwood Press.
I mentioned the series awhile back, and said I found the quality of the books in the series [...]

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It’s still Tuesday, so I still have time to bring you my entry for the Writer’s Bookshelf this week. I’m getting ready to head to Indiana for a few days to visit, so things are a bit harum-scarum around here — and this will be brief.
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff [...]

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