LB on NPR Morning Edition 8/7

Beginning of May I spent a few hours with Neda Ulaby of National Public Radio, and the resultant profile will air on NPR’s Morning Edition Thursday, August 7th. (That’s tomorrow as I post this, but may be today or yesterday by the time you get around to...

I say it’s cabbage and I say the hell with it…

Stolen, without shame or apology, from a Yahoo newsgroup— Senior trying to set a password: WINDOWS: Please enter your new password. USER: cabbage WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters USER: boiled cabbage WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain...

Any translators out there?

Many of my books have been translated into various languages and published around the globe. But many have not, and there’s a new web-based business that brings writers and translators together on a shared-royalty basis. Will it work? I’ve no idea, but it...

Merger stuns world of popular fiction

Publishing circles were reeling today after this morning’s surprise announcement of the merger of pop fiction titans James Patterson and Clive Cussler, who between them are likely to account for twenty bestsellers in calendar year 2014 alone. While neither...