Book Hooker
In a bizarre twist on mangling the meaning of writing a book — “author” Philip Parker now claims “writing” over 200,000 books — using computers as a co-author and Amazon’s BookSurge.com Vanity Press as his publisher.
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Buy My New American Sign Language Book
My newest book, written with Janna M. Sweenie is titled
Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 and you can now buy it directly from Amazon.com and at Barnes and Noble and from your nearby bookstore!
Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 is our second ASL book that employs our “Deaf Way” of Hardcore ASL teaching.
We have a DVD bundled with the book so you can learn ASL with us in real time!
The most inventive measure of our new book is the “Pick and Say Rubric” that leads you to create quick — “three idea” — sentences constructed in ASL.
You just pick one or more words/ideas from a RED column, a GREEN column and a BLUE column and then sign them in sequence. Easy!
Using that rubric method you can forge more than 27,000 American Sign Language phrases by learning only 90 words — and getting to understand how to “Pick and Say” takes less than 10 seconds.
I know you’ll love the book. You can use the book as a base for understanding Deaf Culture and for learning an exciting foreign language.
If you have any thoughts or feedback, please find me and share your mind!
The Equalization Effect of Digital Publishing
Established mainstream authors like John Updike are furious with Google for scanning books into the public domain and they’re angry with publishers that choose to sell electronic editions of books — any book. We argue authors like Updike are angry because their specialness in publication is being ravaged by the equanimity and the equality of the digital publishing, print-on-demand, business model creeping into the book world.
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Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
I’m thrilled to announce the availability of my latest book — Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — published by Thomson/Cengage Learning.
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I, The Machine
I, The Machine.
I am a machine.
My invented mechanisms are a compliment.
Writing a book in under a month is of neither myth nor man but of machine.
The machine is me.
The book is life.
Going Out of Print is Good
When a published book goes “Out of Print” many authors panic — they feel their book is dead in the water and stillborn on the shelf.
If you have a contract that clearly states the book returns to you in all rights and circumstances when it goes Out of Print — you have a great opportunity to take the book back and re-birth it yourself with the life it deserves either online or with another publisher.
How Much Did You Get Paid?
Publishers and agents hate it when authors share the specifics of our contracts with each other and that is precisely why we can, and must, share all the details of our deals.
Publishing Kills the Weak and Weakens the Strong
Writing is hard work. Hurtful work. Deadly work. Putting together a book is a long and painful process of recognition, writing and ongoing negotiation.
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Google Apps for Your Domain Book
We all love The Google.
You know I especially love Google Apps for Your Domain and that includes the new for-pay Premier Edition where Boles University ™ lives and never dies!
Audio Books: Is Hearing Reading?
Is an “Audio Book” a book?
In our recent discussion about The Essence of a Book we determined there is a special beauty in a book that can only beheld between your hands.
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