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Mar. 28, 2013

A Little Facelift

An update to the blog results in changes affecting RSS and blog-by-email subscribers.

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Sep. 24, 2010

For Writers

A writer at work is about as isolated as it is possible to be. No matter if he is sitting in a crowded Starbucks, no matter how gregarious he may be at other times, when he is writing he is perfectly alone. I have always welcomed the solitude. Most writers do, I think, otherwise we [...]

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Aug. 7, 2010

FontFonter

A very neat tool: FontFonter allows you to see any web site with different fonts substituted for the defaults. Here is how this web site looks with different fonts (very handsome, if I do say so myself). And here is the New York Times refonted. Great tool for web designers, great toy for everyone else. [...]

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May. 23, 2010

Bloggiversary

Yesterday was the first anniversary of this blog, which went up on May 22, 2009. As I’ve written here before, I doubt that the blog will generate significant book sales, which was why I started doing it, but I’ve come to enjoy blogging for its own sake and I’ve made a few new friends in [...]

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Mar. 12, 2010

A Facelift

This site has gotten a little makeover this week. Since I launched my blog last May, I have been fiddling with the design nonstop, trying to come up with something that suits me. I haven’t found the perfect fit yet, but this update moves me a little closer. Here is what I’m after. To me, [...]

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Aug. 21, 2009

Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog

Blogging will probably never help me sell books, but to me it’s worth doing anyway.

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