Coloring Outside the Lines:
Depression, the Value of Art, the Responsibility of the Artist to Society, and the Responsibility of Society to the Artist by Eric Schumacher, reprinted with permission, FlapperPress.com I’ve had…
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It’s Harder to Write Short than Long, but Well Worth It
by Linda Kay Hardie We’ve all heard this quote and its variations: “I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”…
To Use AI or Not to Use AI
by Eric Schumaker I realize this is a controversial subject. Consider this: What we are discussing is machine learning. It has been branded as AI to obfuscate the fact there…
How Libraries Choose Books, Can Yours Be One of Them?
by Shelly Toler Franz I think it’s every writer’s dream to see their book on a library shelf. As a public librarian who is friends with +/- a million authors,…
Writing Alone, Writing Together
by Vicki Berger Erwin Not only do I have a co-author for the nonfiction I write, it’s my husband. We’ve been married a long time, we’ve written several successful books…
On the Other Side of the Pond
by Karen Keeley Coming from Canada, I have been asked when travelling in the States if I parked my dogsled at the border—is my igloo in safe hands? Okay, I…
Is Reading Dead? Hell, No!
by Linda Kaye Hardie I used to teach core humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, where we studied how our civilization came to be what it is. In the…
Removing the Fat: Meeting Word Limits
by Arthur Vidro, from the Summer 2017 issue of Calliope, reprinted with permission. In the 1980s, I was fortunate to work as part of the copy-editing team at a national…
So You Wrote the Book, Now What?
by Kathleen Marple Kalb, reprinted with permission Sooner or later, you’re going to get an online assault. It may come as a one-star review from someone who informs you that…