UPDATE 10-6-2012: Everything in this field is evolving all the time, so it’s time for an update to this post. I’m now using Jutoh, an application that takes your source file and exports it in different formats for upload to Amazon, Nook, Smashwords, etc. It makes it easier to get the table of contents right in the various different formats, … Read More
Stillness on the Water – Emotional Insight from Mark Twain
From Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“: I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it’s a … Read More
Site Launch Post
Vermeer’s “The Art of Painting” The consciousness of what makes a work of art has been won and lost by civilizations repeatedly throughout the ages. In civilizations where that consciousness is widespread among the public, many timeless works of art are produced. A few examples (a very partial and incomplete list):