• 9.3.10: Audible Authors Interview with James Dwight, author of “As Worlds Burn”

    9.3.10: Audible Authors Interview with James Dwight, author of “As Worlds Burn”

    9.3.10 Interviewed by Kevin Winter James Dwight lives in a sleepy Northern California town where the slow pace and idyllic weather allows time to develop a keen social conscience. James is deeply concerned with the global issues of our day, which include extreme poverty, overpopulation, global warming, nationalism and any religious fanaticism that hinders the [...]

  • 9.2.10: Scribd Pros & Cons for Scribes and Buyers Alike

    9.2.10: Scribd Pros & Cons for Scribes and Buyers Alike

    Scribd.com has recently risen in my esteem. After discovering one of my eBooks on their website some weeks ago–copied and placed thereon by a book pirate–the folks at Scribd had the offending PDF taken down before 10 hours had elapsed. Soon after that, my husband and I began posting “sample” chapter PDFs of our various [...]

  • 9.1.10: Finding Your Niche Market: How authors can effectively market their work

    9.1.10: Finding Your Niche Market: How authors can effectively market their work

    Almost everyone considers themselves to be a writer of some sort. Those who most appreciate the art will define it as a means of connecting to oneself, to others, to reality and to fantasy. This definition excludes no one. The book business, unfortunately, does. Industry experience teaches that every writer is not an author, and [...]

  • 8.31.10: Clark Russell, Making the world beautiful one client at a time

    8.31.10: Clark Russell, Making the world beautiful one client at a time

    By Kaye Cloutman, Photography by Martin Delfino Reviewing books, meeting deadlines, doing author interviews and preparing the layout for a monthly publication are probably some of the furthest things from glamour. For two and a half years I have known Heidi (my boss and publisher for the San Francisco | Sacramento Book Review) as the [...]

  • 8.31.10: The Blissful Burrito

    8.31.10: The Blissful Burrito

    When I was in elementary school, I remember getting assigned a project once regarding favorite foods.  We had to select a favorite food, write a paragraph or two on why that food was our favorite, and then create a three-dimensional model of our food, art class-style, out of construction paper.  I declared that my favorite [...]

  • 8.27.10: Kepler’s celebrates the release of Mockingjay, The Final Book of the Hunger Games

    8.27.10: Kepler’s celebrates the release of Mockingjay, The Final Book of the Hunger Games

    By Kaye Cloutman Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced a month ago that it has increased the first printing of Mockingjay, the final book in the nationally bestselling The Hunger Games trilogy, to 1.2 million, from a previously announced 750,000 copies. First published in September 2008, The Hunger Games was an [...]

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  • Featured Fiction Books

  • Bullet

    Bullet

    By Laurell K. Hamilton Berkley, $26.95, 356 pages The nineteenth book in the Anita Blake series, Bullet, rocks. Haven fans won’t want to miss this one, with the tension between Anita and her Lion coming to a head at last.

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  • Solar

    Solar

    By Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 293 pages Climate change seems an odd backdrop for a novel; however, award-winning author McEwan uses this hot button topic to shed light on the human condition. Nobel-winning physicist Michael Beard is on

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  • Humans

    Humans

    By Robert J. Sawyer Tor, $14.99, 381 pages In the novel Hominids, author Robert J. Sawyer offered a fascinating idea–a world where Neanderthal man survived and Homo sapiens went the way of the dinosaurs. When a single Neanderthal scientist, Ponter

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  • Featured Non-Fiction Books

  • Eating Local: 150 Recipes from the Farm to Your Table

    Eating Local: 150 Recipes from the Farm to Your Table

    By Sur La Table and Janet Fletcher Andrews McMeel Publishing, $35.00, 304 pages Sur La Table and Janet Fletcher are my newest green heroes for their recently released cookbook Eating Local. The ingredients found locally in my county are the

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  • Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean

    Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean

    By Margaret Gajek, Derek Galon Ozone Zone Books, $44.95, 301 pages Houses are not just places of security, or places with beds and kitchens and living rooms, they are expressions of the life around us, what we want out if

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  • The Joy of Gardening

    The Joy of Gardening

    Edited by Eileen Campbell Hodder & Stoughton, $9.95, 216 pages Reminiscent of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, this book is divided into the four parts of the year. The author’s short introduction to each section sets the stage by describing the effects

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