Great story in the NYTimes on another blog book deal.
I’m a day behind on posting this! I’m hoping that all of you will go and purchase the first edition of “Age Of Conversation” at Amazon here. The book was the idea of Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan who challenged bloggers around the world to contribute one page – 400 words – on the topic of “conversation”. The resulting book, “The Age of Conversation,” brings together over 100 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators in a ground-breaking and unusual publication.
All the proceeds from the purchase of the book go to Variety International, The Children’s Charity.
And there is going to be an “Age of Conversation” second edition which will feature over 275 inspiring folks and their thoughts.
Don’t miss the vote at 800CEORead.com (go to the “Vote for your Favorite Book” post) and vote for your favorite book of all time. I had to vote for Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” and if your book is not listed there, then by all means see if you can add it for the big vote!
800CEORead.com is a fabulous site full of great books, insight and inspiration!
Let your house go dark for an hour tonight in support of Earth Hour. Google’s doing it all day but you can do it at least for one hour!
Cincom’s Expert Access newsletter features Event Management Services Inc.’s, Marsha Friedman’s superb insight on preparing for your first TV interview.
Read it and be prepared! Marsha is tops in her field!
Great article on John Wiley and Sons and their Web 2.0 focus.
And if you want to read one really good blog on Web 2.0, publishing, Kindle etc. then I highly recommend Joe Wikert’s blog.
Just found this story on PW about Chip and Dan Heath’s new book. It sounds like another winner and I highly recommend their first book, “Made to Stick” as well.
The new one is titled, “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard”, and is going to be published by Doubleday. For the full story go here.
I’m going to be out of the office today and tomorrow and thought that might be a good time to launch a personal blog that I’ve wanted to do for at least a couple of years now. The blog is “Blog The Change” and I encourage all of you to stop by and answer the following question on this additional blog. (So many blogs, never enough time.)
The question is, “If you could change the world in one way, what would it be?” I’ll look forward to reading your comments when I return to the office, sans three wisdom teeth!
My answer which will also be on the other blog is, “For the war to end and our troops to come home.”
Until then, keep blogging!
I love this story on NPR about three writers who have created comic novels to showcase their stories.
One of the things my family does every summer (and I’ve written about this before) is we put our TVs up from May to August and we find other things to illuminate our evenings! One of them comes in the form of reading comics out loud to one another. I’m already ordering our swag of comics for this year including Sonic the Hedgehog for my son, Marvel Comics and Manga books for my hubby and daughter, and graphic novels for myself.
My husband is a giant fan of graphic novels and before we married I had to catch up with all of Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” series because that’s what he was always reading.
And if you’re looking for a Pulitzer Prize winning book (2001) to read that uses comics and the history of comics as a fantastic historical backdrop, then check out Michael Chabon’s “Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” – . In the early 90s, I had the great blessing of interviewing Chabon in Austin and his mind is extraordinary.
While we’re talking graphic novels, I wish someone would turn John Kennedy Toole’s “The Confederacy of Dunces” into a graphic novel. (I know, I know, his mom Thelma isn’t around anymore to get it done and neither is Walker Percy.) The book is spectacular and in fine form of course as it is, but really it would make a great graphic novel. If you’ve not read it yet, then pick it up for the summer and be prepared to be blown away.
Restart your imagination by letting go of your TV and passivity and read comics!
I love Nathan Bransford’s blog on query letters and “Nate Dogg”.
Roy C. Clarke’s superb take on narrative form.
And the history of Writer’s Digest and why you should be reading it.
Great article in Publisher’s Weekly on how traditional publishers are moving forward and helping more readers get in touch with authors on a virtual basis. Superb.
A sad day that Arthur C. Clarke has passed away.
Here are his three laws of prediction excerpted from Wikipedia:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I’m a giant believer in #2 and anyone who loves and lives the Web has seen #3 in action over and over again.
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