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Judging a Book by Its Cover
Whoever first coined that phrase was not in the business of selling books. Authors and editors pay for and applaud effective book design. Readers expect to know at a glance who wrote the book and which genre it fits. The all important title may do the job, but often a sub-title helps to categorize the…
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Climate Facts & Fiction
How can I convince you to read Climate of Hope by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope? Maybe the credentials of the authors will tempt you. Bloomberg is a famously successful business man and philanthropist and a former mayor of New York City (2002-2013). Pope, a former head of Sierra Club, led a successful Beyond Coal campaign to…
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Novel Writing 101
To honor my friend and fellow writer Tim Hall, whose debut novel is out. Step One–accept that you have a story to tell. Two–confront the many ways to tell it: memoir, fiction, photo montage, essays. Three–write reams to get the story out of your head onto the page. Take heart, this is what Anne Lamott (Bird by…
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DC: Wetlands or Landfill?
Washington DC is not a swamp. A swamp is a vital wetland, home to biodiversity. No, DC is a landfill of braggadocio, selfishness, lies and greed. An executive gag order has silenced the EPA, built a wall between citizens and information about the ground we walk on, the air we cannot help but breathe and…
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Writers Unite
Tomorrow, January 15, 2017, an important event happens at Lighthouse Writers, 1515 Race Street in Denver: Writers Resist: Words of the West. The headline on the flyer reads “On Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday, Writers Across the World Will Gather to Speak, Read, and Re-Claim our Democratic Ideals.” The Lighthouse gathering is free and open…
Karen Douglass, Author 