Sarah Kanning

Wicked Plants is particularly of note to writers because of its focus on plants that are poisonous and/or noxious in some way, which makes it a nice supplement to herbal guides that focus on edible and medicinal plants, or more general field guides. Murder mystery writers in particular will find much to love here.

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…I may be willing to use this food item to sustain life. Perhaps.

These things come in various sized blocks; pictured is part of an 1800 calorie block, which is enough to feed one person for one day. They also come in 2400 and 3600 blocks, the idea being a handy block of shelf-stable food you [...]

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Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful.
Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, and [...]

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Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]

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Just read an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education which was about librarianship and jobs in libraries, but it contained this paragraph:
I know of one job seeker who has a Ph.D. in English, publications including a scholarly monograph, many years of college teaching experience, a recent MLIS, and substantial preprofessional library experience. She sent [...]

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