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What’s in the Book?

If you’re a typical connoisseur of books – especially the old-fashioned types with covers and paper pages in between those covers – then you know well that a well-designed, attractive book cover and its title are meant to gain your interest. But if you’re a more...

Judging a Book by Its Cover

A book isn’t real until it’s in my hands. This is my author mantra, uttered throughout the process of making a book, from pitching it as an idea, to writing a book proposal, writing a draft of the book itself, turning in a “finished” manuscript with all of its figures...

Go Where the Tracks Lead You

It was time. My first book-related website, Life Traces of the Georgia Coast, went online in September 2012, just before the January 2013 publication of my book bearing the same title (which was totally not a coincidence). I’m still darned proud of this weighty tome,...