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A collection of comic book vignettes provides insight into the process of selling your work to publishers & readers.

I’ve already found one of my books of 2005, The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray, by Nina Rattner Gelbart. On my site is the map assembled by the author (from ten years of research, primarily in French provincial archives) of the travels of Mme Coudray …

A kiss from a rose indeed: Seal, 41, and supermodel Heidi Klum, 31, are engaged according to her website: Heidi & Seal We affianced on a glacier in Whistler (Canada). We reached this beautiful place by helicoter one day before Christmas Eve. It was a unique experience. Yes – I …

One woman's experiences at an Alaskan fish camp. . .

Neocons will hate this book. Moderates will feel enlightened and emboldened. Liberals will enjoy the occasional pot-shots at Neocons and want more.

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

Book the First: The Bad Beginning The author, Lemony Snicket, lets the reader know right from the start that The Bad Beginning isn’t going to have a happy ending, so if that’s what you are looking for, then you “would be better of reading some other book.” Snicket is very …

A classic gender-bending manga series from the 70's gets its first American printing. . .

Though I love Harry I am somewhat leery of J.K. Rowling (there’s something unseemly about her tarting up on the way to becoming a billionaire) and certainly don’t have the time or interest in solving some damn riddles on her website in order to get the fresh poop on the …

Harvey Pekar has a problem. Of course, the obsessive depressive retired V.A. hospital file clerk, populist rust belt intellectual, acute cultural observer and splenetic comic book pioneer has more than one problem, as he’d be the first to tell you. But Pekar’s CENTRAL problem is that relatively few of his …