The television show In Treatment, starring Gabriel Byrne as psychoanalyst who was unable to get his personal life in order, is one of my all-time favorite series. I remember saying to a friend, a therapist who was also a fan of the show, “This theater is too good for American televi

Not long after I moved into my retirement center, a resident who’d learned I write novels, suggested I contribute a few to the in-house library.   I declined, explaining that most of my sales were e-sales and that I made pennies per book.  I couldn’t afford to give paperbacks a

A friend visited the other day and as she settled down with a cup of tea, she peered round the room, admiring my new apartment which is larger than my last.  I’m probably one of the few retired people who has upsized her space rather than downsized.  My friend must have wondered h

With the holiday season come and gone, it’s nice to know the period was marked by a little peace on earth.  Hachette, 4th largest publishing house in the United States, and Amazon settled their long standing dispute over the selling price for eBooks. (Blog 9/25/14)  The question i

Sometimes we think we know the meaning of a word only to discover we don’t.  Take the word monopoly.  It used to mean a business large enough to eliminate its competitors.  When that happens, we expect goods and services to go up.  But, as Franklin Foer writes in a recent essay,

The war over the price of eBooks between Amazon and the large publishing house, Hachette, still rages.  Hanchette wants more money for its books.  Amazon wants to charge the public less. Recently, a petition signed by  nearly 900 of Hanchette’s most prominent authors appeared in