An Interview with Thy Bui, Book Cover Designer and Illustrator
What’s the first thing you notice when you look at a book? The cover right? It plays an important role in attracting readers to a book...
What’s the first thing you notice when you look at a book? The cover right? It plays an important role in attracting readers to a book...
When it comes to helping your kids develop their language and vocabulary skills, there’s no better tool than a dictionary. Today’s children’s dictionaries aren’t the boring,...
There are so many opinions on ebooks vs print books. Like, so many. Every so often, on one of my librarian or bookish Facebook groups, a...
Maryna Pleshkun/Shutterstock Fake reviews are everywhere online and they’ve probably influenced some of your purchases. Fake reviews can be positive or negative, and they’re obviously unethical...
When it came time to design the book jacket, these blurbs did not make the cut. “This literary tour de force was so literary and so...
There are over 100 phobias ranging from the fear of small spaces to fear of spiders to the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof...
I’ve always been casually interested in attending a Renaissance faire. As a kid, the idea of prancing around a village full of actors and vendors in...
You’ve done therapy, you’ve (hopefully) talked about your feelings together. Your relationship is over, one way or another, and there’s only one thing left to deal...
I’ve been thinking a lot about grief recently. Someone very close to me lost their child last fall, and it sent reverberations of loss and pain...
I recently wrote a post rounding up some of Joanne Harris’ threads of Ten Things, which are bookish tips and tidbits she shares with Twitter. People...