The cryptocurrency market has weathered some storms over the last five years. One significant incident involved the crypto exchange FTX and its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, whose mishandling of investor funds, as documented in the ABC news report had a profound impact on investor sentiment. As a result, many of us who thought about investing in cryptocurrency Read More
Every author today must think about the cover of their book sometime before it’s finished. Everyone knows you can’t judge the contents by the cover, but if the book’s cover doesn’t look right, it may never get an audience. Today, more than ever, first impressions are crucial to capturing interest enough for a potential reader to take Read More
I am old enough to remember the cool guys who worked on mainframe computers in the late seventies. They would hang out in the college computer center wearing jeans and t-shirts, impressing us with their mystical knowledge of early computer programming. I would patiently wait in line with my stack of punch cards to ask Read More
How many times have you been annoyed by repeatedly being asked if you are a robot? Everything we do on our phone or computing device requires us to prove we’re not a robot. Too often, we are challenged with the puzzle below and squint to make out letters or numbers mashed together, stretched out or Read More
Capture Inspiration on the Go How often have you been away from your writing desk and thought of the next plot point or character dialogue for the piece you are working on? Or you’re sitting somewhere lovely, like a park on a sunny day, inspired to write, but you don’t have your laptop. So you Read More
I have survived the last sixty-odd years not taking everything at face value. In grade school, I had doubts the counterculture of the 1960s would survive much after the concert at Woodstock. During the early 1970s, I knew Viet Nam was, regrettably, a lost cause. Like many Americans, I prayed our soldiers would return from Read More
As any unpublished writer knows, getting a mainstream publishing house to consider your book is next to impossible. You can try getting an agent to promote your work, but they typically won’t take on any new writers who haven’t been previously published. So, what’s a new writer to do? Do you continue to knock your Read More
You have an idea about getting something out there on the web. Maybe it’s your accounting business you want to make more accessible to potential customers surfing the web. Or you want to share your passion for a hobby like classic British sports cars by starting a blog where like-minded folks can share their experiences Read More