My colleague Mark Bulik points out an oddly oxymoronic construction that has been popping up lately: "an anti-[blank] advocate." It's like saying, "He supports opposing it." Just a few of many recent examples:… Read More

Novelist Cynthia Thayer watched her family’s 153-year-old barn burn to the ground. Friends and supporters have organized an online fundraiser to help the novelist rebuild. Author Kristen Britain attends a weekly writing workshop at Thayer’s house in Maine, and she… Read More

Newsweek has decided to declare President Obama as "The First Gay President," following his decision to support gay marriage earlier this week. The issue includes an article by Andrew Sullivan. The cover includes a photograph of President Obama with a… Read More

Newsweek has decided to declare President Obama as "The First Gay President," following his decision to support gay marriage earlier this week. The issue includes an article by Andrew Sullivan. The cover includes a photograph of President Obama with a… Read More

Exactly how big is America’s illiteracy problem? The Understanding Illiteracy infographic will help you actually see the scope of the problem. We’ve embedded the complete infographic below–what do you think? Childhood literacy groups need your support. Yahoo created a handy… Read More

fulcrum: the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns.… Read More

Today is the final day of our Kickstarter project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us and everything we’re doing here. Our new site is in development, and we can’t wait to share it with you. If you haven’t supported… Read More

When you wish to refer to something that serves to prevent, which is the correct adjectival or noun form, preventative, or preventive? The latter word is more commonly cited, appearing by a ratio of three to one, but the longer… Read More

Hey Everyone! Thanks for your support so far, we hit our goal, and we’ve only got four days to go. But we’ve got a new goal. We want to get to $3,000 by the deadline to help us launch another… Read More

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."… Read More

There’s about 24 hours left to support Eric Lindley’s Kickstarter campaign, raising funds for the recording and distribution of his new album. Eric has contributed to InDigest a couple of times in the past. We’ve published some of his poems… Read More

About Olakunbi Korostensky,ND Olakunbi (Kunbi) Korostensky, ND, is a former naturopathic doctor and psychologist with a master’s in energy psychology, who now primarily works as a spiritual and intuition coach with a multifaceted enterprise. She is an intuitive specialist who… Read More

Almost every big Hollywood blockbuster you’ve ever watched has common factors. There is the star, and then there is the supporting cast. The star gets all the lines. The star gets to do most of the work. The star is… Read More

Amazon.com is now selling “eBooks Kindle en Español” in the Kindle store. This includes titles from Spanish speaking authors such as Pablo Neruda, as well as translated titles from authors such as Kurt Vonnegut. This is the first… Read More

We have a wonderful guest today!  They’re all wonderful, aren’t they?  A.K. Alexander is on tour with her thriller Daddy’s Home.  And listen – she is also giving away a paperback copy of her book!  Fill out the Rafflecopter… Read More

When major publishers make decisions on where to spend marketing dollars in support of their seasonal titles, they typically concentrate on the largest media markets. This is why small publishers and especially self-published authors should completely ignore the largest media… Read More

UPCOMING EVENTS: June 13, 2012 InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party at the Gallery at LPR 7pm | Free July 22, 2012 InDigest Reading at the New York Poetry Festival w/ Amaranth Borsuk, Mark Leidner, and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Governor’s… Read More

In 2005, the The Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa created a collection of PDF files to support their Social Media & Technology in the Classroom teaching resources. Among the well thought out documents on using blogs and… Read More

The tagline of her popular blog reads “because you’re a creative badass.” In a single post on creativity, she might draw from neurologic, evolutionary, psychological, and anthropologic principles. She’s visited the Congo with Eve Ensler of The Vagina Monologues and… Read More

Amazon has given the Los Angeles Review of Books a $25,000 grant. The literary journal will use the funds to pay its contributors and launch the complete site. Founding editor Tom Lutz had this statement: “Corporate underwriting grants like these… Read More

I sat in the courtroom, listening to a witness for the defense in a case against a psychiatrist  accused of sexually abusing one of his former patients.  I was there as a support person for the former patient. I knew… Read More

Indiana authors are banding together to help rebuild Henryville, Indiana, a small town which was recently hit by an F4 tornado. To help the town, authors are hosting an auction and a raffle. Their blog explains more: “We had hoped to… Read More

I have a policy on working for family members and close friends. Only small projects, and only for free. I don't let close friends and family members pay me. That may be kind of a radical position to take, but… Read More

Untouchable by Scott O’Connor has won Barnes & Noble’s 2011 Discover Award for fiction. Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy won the nonfiction award. Both writers will receive $10,000  and “a full year of marketing and merchandising support from the bookseller.”… Read More

Amazon has been making a lot of people in the publishing world upset lately. Last week, the retailer failed to renew its contract with Independent Publishers Group — kicking almost 400 indie publishers out of the Kindle Store. The move… Read More

Let’s face it. With the exception of the tiny handful of writers lucky enough to generate handsome earnings from their books or to have the full financial support of a spouse or a trust fund (two things I tend to… Read More

The arrival in January of Apple’s new iBooks Author tool for developing and publishing digital literature may signal a new phase of e-book development that’s good news for tablets, and maybe not such great news for e-ink readers. At least,… Read More

Documentary filmmaker Julia Marchesi and public artist Leon Reid IV hope to raise $13,000 on Kickstarter to install a library-themed public sculpture called “The Hundred Story House.” Above, we’ve embedded a video about the project–what do you think? The interactive… Read More

Punctuation associated with attribution — identification of the source of a statement — can, when used incorrectly, confuse rather than clarify communication. Troubleshoot these troublesome sentences, paying attention to the relationship of the attribution to the rest of the sentence,… Read More

Writing team Frosty Ogre hope to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter to cover the production costs of the first volume in their graphic novel series, 13 Legends. Above, we’ve embedded a video about the project–what do you think? 13 Legends features… Read More

KLAW reported earlier this week that “state funding for California libraries has been completely eliminated” in the state’s budget for the year. Check it out: “Now libraries in the Bay Area, as in the rest of the state, will lose… Read More