Peg's Blog for Authors and Others

Some people have the knack of saying just what you need to hear - Joeann Fossland is such a person. This is one of her phrases and when you hear it, you recognize an essential truth. And then you wonder why you never understood something so simply profound before. People who are not involved in ...

Any real estate professional knows that Inman News is the source for real estate news. Their site is full of the latest information for anyone in the industry. It is a subscription site, but I get their daily newsletters – there is a morning and an evening edition – and you can read any article ...

This one did my heart good. AuthorHouse, a subsidy publisher of ill-repute, has been ordered to pay damages in a defamation lawsuit. The short version of the tale is that they published a book that libeled a romance writer, Rebecca Brandywyne. The book in question was written by her vindictive ex...

A couple of years ago some good friend turned me on to The Publicity Hound. Joan Stewart is a publicity expert who has a free weekly newsletter loaded with tips for gaining free publicity. That’s my price range for sure! A while ago, she started a blog to go along with her web site and ezine, and...

You guessed it – the red paper clip guy. About a year ago a man with few resources and a lot of imagination began his quest. He planned to trade one red paper clip for one house. Undeterred by the obvious impossibility, he traded first for a blue fish pen, then a door knob that looked like E.T. J...

One of George Carlin’s classic routines was the hippie-dippie weatherman who proclaimed (through his own personal fog) that “There’s gonna be weather...everywhere!” These days, there are weather blogs everywhere.I find it interesting that two types of scientists with equal passion for their work ...