I've written before about how, when it comes to understanding what humans want, dogs likely have the greatest emotional intelligence of ...

The next time you're at a gathering of literary types and you'd like some bit of information with which to amaze them, I have the an...

From the beginning of this assured debut mystery, it was obvious that Reno author Mark Bacon is a pro writer, and I settled in for what...

Most writers I know have fantasized about the perfect place to write. Sometimes it comes from a misguided notion that if we had a dream wri...

In previous posts, I've mentioned how literary writing has as its focus writing as art . Whether or not it entertains or sells is a low...

In the community of Meyers on Tahoe's South Shore is Bona Fide Books , a fast-growing publisher of fiction, poetry, essays, nature wr...

Last November, a writer named Molly Greene wrote me. In addition to having written several novels, she said she wrote a blog about writing ...

Tonight, January 4th, the moon is full. Yea!  At 8:53 p.m. on the West Coast, to be exact. (On calendars, it says the full moon is January...

Tahoe is at 39 degrees of latitude, so our winter days aren’t nearly as short as in places farther north like Seattle or Minneapolis or “the...

Hi Everybody, Beginning Christmas Day, Tahoe Ghost Boat will be free on Kindle, and it will remain free for 5 days. As of this writi...

I was at a book club a few months ago when someone asked me if it is really true that we can get five-foot swell on Lake Tahoe as is depicte...

In the world of books, authors struggle to score a booksigning event. If they are lucky - there is a good crowd and the author is in good fo...