01/22
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more. This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place. A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time. When I came across this [...]
Tags: books, ebooks, free, kindle, maureen johnson
01/21
Writing has become more and more of a focus for me lately. I started getting into a new book I was writting but now have decided to focus back on editting the one I finished already. I’ve been away from it for a while so it feels good to look at it again. It [...]
Tags: angelina jolie, authors, book, deja dead, harry potter, j k rowling, john green, kathy reiches, natalia rizzello, nicholas sparks, notes from my travels, Paper Towns, story, writing
01/15
Just saying. I have been a huge New Jersey fan forever. I have vacationed there three times. It is amazing. The show makes me laugh. The only part of the Jersey Shore I’ve seen is Asbury Park which is completely different. When I’ve been there it was all emo kids. Again, amazing. I have [...]
01/14
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece So here we are in 2010. Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now. From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here. [...]
Tags: book news, books, dewey, e-books, kindle, reading, vicki myron
01/09
While reading Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins last night, I was completely shocked while reading about cheating in schools. If I remember correctly, the statistic was that 90% of teenagers cheat on homework. There was other percentages about test and that sort of thing as well. At first I thought, who on earth would [...]
Tags: alexandra robbins, bad, cheating, college, copying, gpa, overacheivers, sat, sat test, school, university
01/06
Over the last year I have read a lot more young adult books than I have in the past. I came up with a concept for a book and the more I got into mapping out how I wanted it to go, the more I realized that it would be a YA book. The [...]
Tags: alyson noel, harry potter, john green, looking for alaska, sabrina the teenage witch, sex, shadowland, teens, the immortals series, young adult