My Computer is a Psychopath
By Dr. Jeri Fink One day my computer will kill me. No surprise. That’s what you expect from a killer psychopath. What is a psychopath? The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised – the bible of diagnostic tools – defines a psychopath as “someone who preys ruthlessly on others, using charm, deceit, violence or other methods to […]
Twelve Rules for Life as an Author
Authors don’t have ordinary lives. Ask them – I don’t know any writer who won’t happily tell you in 500 words or less. Whether writing the Great American Novel or how to outwit Bill Maher, authors have their own unique POV (point of view). As a writer, family therapist, and author of 27 books, I […]
An Author’s World
It’s not pretty out there. Here’s what I see from my windows. China publishes the largest number of new and revised book titles per year – 440,000. U.S is second at 304,912, and the United Kingdom is third at 184,000. UNESCO monitors the number and type of books published annually for each country, using […]
Welcome To My Cave
Welcome to my cave. It’s a place of organized chaos; a mirror for what goes on in my head. There are corners, crevices, and hideaways for everything. Check out my computers. As the daughter of an engineer, I’ve always been a computer geek. My friends like to call me a techie but I use computers […]
The Attack of the Commas
They mean blood. Lots of it. They embed themselves like ink maggots twisting words, skewing thoughts, and threatening deletion. I know. I’m a victim. It’s a serious assault. Everyone knows only amateurs abuse commas. Professionals like me, an author of twenty six books and hundreds of articles, are never victims of these dreaded creatures. Wrong! […]