Overly thrilled with the sound of my own voice, I wanted to share my call in to the KC local NPR station KCUR.org.  The Walt Bodine show featured a few experts the other day called the “Book Doctors” who talked about favorite fiction.  I decided I wanted to rant on the book I was reading […]

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Here’s how online books usually go. A book is published online, or happens to be in the Public Domain and resides as a text file (.txt) or a collection of HTML files loosely coupled with a table of contents. If you are me, you find the book, but are immediately depressed because […]

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For whatever reason, the only bookstore in my neighborhood has closed up shop. They were given about fifteen days to shut down right after Christmas. It’s not a sad story of the small business being run out by a big dog, I mean it’s a Waldenbooks, owned by Borders. The store was […]

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A book is never the labor of just one person. In my case our Adobe Creative Suite 2 book was written by several extremely talented people with a wide range of experiences. I appreciate their contributions immensely. The book officially released in September 2005. Sadly though, one of my co-authors named Carla Rose passed […]

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I have flown so many times on business trips I can’t even remember them anymore. Flying is fun for me because of where I am usually going. I have also always enjoyed the actual flight, for the most part. Some flights have really turned me off. Right now I’m reading the book “Ask the Pilot” […]

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Have you ever wanted to publish a book on your own? Do you think no publisher will ever pick it up? Perhaps your writing skill isn’t where you want it to be, so you’ve just given up all together? Maybe you have an idea and you need an outlet. Maybe you want to create a […]

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