A once, I’m sure booming hat factory (Bowler anyone?) Yeah, so it looks like Kindle and Sony are now going to be challenged by yet another ebook reader. Today Barns and Noble announced they would partner with Plastic Logic to bring B&N’s massive ebook supply quickly and easily to a ereader. PL’s device is WiFi,…
40 Years after the Moon
Forty years ago a 38 year old American pilot stepped out of a ship that was really no more than a tin can, and not only the man but the whole of our country soared. America was in its heyday remember. Our factories were booming. People were making a very good living on a one…
A response to “The Best Kids’ Books Ever” from NY Times
Nicholas D. Kristof two-time Pulitzer Prize winner from the NY Times has come up with a list of “The Best Kids’ Books Ever.” I do not mean to dispute Mr. Kristof, but I have to stay that there seems to a bit of a disconnect between his list and reality. He has listed the Hardy…
Don’t count Google out of Ebooks Yet
The Washington Post is reporting that the justice department is investigating Google’s deal with publishers and authors for exclusive rights to digitizing all orphaned books. Read the article, it’s important. I’m not sure what is behind Google’s thinking in all of this. Maybe all tech companies get too big and greedy after awhile, but I…
The Great “Copyright” (Freedom of Speech) Debate
Newspapers on Washington Avenue (Minneapolis) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA by Susan Lesch. Used under GNU Free Documentation License. Editors Weblog.org has an interesting article: “Us: The great copyright debate” and other sites are coming out reporting editors calling for new laws. Read this above article, I think it is going to impact everyone on the…
Looking for magazine for kids? Here are our 10 Best Magazines for kids.
So I wanted to find a couple of kids magazines for my son and daughter. I thought “What could be more fun than getting a cool science magazine or literary magazine on their level! Ugh,
51 Word Summer Story Contest
Ok, this is our 51 Word Summer Story Contest. We have run many of these in the past. We usually offer a non-cash prize for the contest and publication. The last horror contest we ran we were not able to make good for our winners. We were publishing a print issue of our magazine, and…
Exquisite Corpse: for writers, we all need a break.
Welcome to our game for writers. It is an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts
Continue the Story
We haven’t done one of these in a long time. Our Haiku, Horror Story, and 2 Sentence Stories are doing so well, we thought we’d add one more, Continue the Story…
Call for Art Submissions
We are looking for art for our site. We are looking for photos, paintings, computer art, anything that we can display on our site with short stories an poetry.
Writing Prompts
Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad
Advice on Writing a Novel by Joseph Conrad “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.” These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate. The…
Poem: Weep Willow Reeds by Konstantin Nicholas Rega
Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin studies British & American Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He has been published by The Claremont Review, Four Ties Lit Review, AOM, and has won the ZO Magazine Silver Prize for Poetry
Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing by Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing by Mark Twain It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper’s literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more…
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA by Walt Whitman
POETRY TO-DAY IN AMERICA SHAKSPERE—THE FUTURE by Walt Whitman Strange as it may seem, the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the flowering rose or lily, as the ripened fruit to a tree, the apple or the peach, no…