Life doesn’t always provide us with the opportunity to write the book we have dreamed of. A number of people in our writing community have told us that they are taking time while they are unemployed from non-writing jobs to work on their writing. We applaud them. While there is nothing good about unemployment, there […]

From the Bengal tiger in LIFE OF PI to Rudyard Kipling’s Shere Khan in THE JUNGLE BOOK to Tony the Tiger of Frosted Flakes fame, the tiger is among the most pre-eminent of literary (and sometimes not so literary) symbols. Poet William Blake nails the tiger’s perfect symbol-ness in “The Tyger” (1797) when he describes […]

Everybody we know is reading DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLY, P.D. James’ sequel to Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE which is number three on the New York Times bestseller list this week. Well-known detective writer James has said this work is a combination of her two greatest passions, crime stories and Austen, a one/two punch which […]

We have book doctored and/or edited some wonderful books this year. We have traveled from Iraq, to Zimbabwe, to Tibet in the 1950s, to WW II Poland, to the Civil War, to early 20th-century Afghanistan through our clients’ works – and it has been quite a ride. We have learned about surviving the 1958 Lebanese […]