Hello, everyone.  My fabulous friend, fellow children's and YA author LM Preston, will be having a book launch for her new sci-fi nove...

Indie publishers, think of your book's cover as the most important page of your book. Why? Because it might be the only one a potential ...

I've been teaching my home-schooled daughter a course on creating graphic novels. The course is partly about writing and partly about il...

I'm currently editing Ride of Your Life , a romantic YA novel involving ghosts in a theme park, when I came across this website:  http:/...

Shevi’s Geek Q for yesterday:   168   (very high!) Yesterday was Purim, so my Geek Q was very, very high, and it was AWESOME!  I love Pu...

Anyone can be an Amazon Kindle bestseller by playing the numbers, and I'll tell you how in a moment.   First I want to explain why I w...

Shevi’s Geek Q for today:   134   (pretty good!) Activities: played Monty Python Fluxx with my husband and daughter, and we had the great ...

I have so many things on my to-do list, I can't choose what to do first. What do you do in situations like this? Here it is: TO-DO...

Shevi’s Geek Q for today:   100   (down and then up to average out) I was depressed today because my entry in the ABNA contest didn't m...

I gave in and joined Pinterest. Here's a link to my "Dream" page:  http://pinterest.com/shevistories/dream/ It's fun to ...

In a New York Times editorial from September 28, 2002, Joseph Epstein quotes a survey that claims 81% of Americans would like to write a b...

I couldn't login to my Google account on my Android phone, which once again leads me to believe the problem is with my phone. I put anti...

I found out my Hotmail account was hacked on Friday. On Saturday I got a sty in my eye. I still have the sty, and now on top of that, I have...

  How this happened is a complete mystery. Apparently someone started sending spam from it last night at 2:30 AM. McAfee was running with a ...

Shevi’s Geek Q for today:   124 Activities:  Word games at the library. Played Big Boggle, Taboo, and You've Been Sentenced Fun leve...

Shevi’s Geek Q for today:   122   (not bad) Activities: On Wednesdays, I'm giving my daughter a course on how to make a graphic novel....

My husband and I are currently working on the hardcover edition of Toren the Teller's Tale , and I think the information we're colle...

Shevi’s Geek Q for today:   142   (Genius!) You CAN get happiness in the mail! I ordered  Professor Layton and the Last Specter , and it ar...