Ten Things Left Over from Other List Hunts Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. Businesscardmonster Designer PRO 2.1 is "an easy to use Designer Program to design your personal Businesscards. With the 2....

Last year I began collecting ATCs, or artist trading cards. Those of you who hang out at sites like Etsy.com or Quilting Arts are familiar with these miniature wonders, which are 2-1/2" X 3-1/2" one-of-a-kind works of art. Recently I snagged a copy of Patricia Bolton's 1000 Artist Trading Cards, whi...

Operator: Publishing 911, what's your emergency? Reader: Yes, this book I've been reading has, you know, something really bad in it. Operator: What is the bad thing, ma'am? Reader: I can't say that over the phone. But it's really, really bad. Operator: I need to know what the bad thing is, ma'am, or...

Ten Things to Help with Note Taking Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. Dustin Wax's article Advice for Students: Taking Notes That Work also offers some great tips for writers who want to improve their...

Ten Things Your Romance Novel Heroine Should Never Do (if you want to win a RITA) Buy the condoms in advance and carry them in her purse and slap one in the hero's hand as soon as they step into the bedroom. Once the romance heroine has wrestled for a couple hundred pages over the dilemma of whether...

Who says books aren't thrilling? I was very happy to see so many titles mentioned in the entries for the Thrill Ride giveaway. We put the magic hat to work, and the winners are: applejacks0711 gigi Carissa Reid nicswette, whose comment began with I thought that Larissa Ione's first Demonica book "Pl...

Wolfsinger Publications has an open call for submissions for All About Eve,an anthology to retell the story of the first woman created by the gods: "Be imaginative and draw on more than just the traditional Christian and Greek stories. Let her tell her side of the story - whether she was manipulated...

Most writers and their families are facing direct backlash from the economic crisis, and we here at Casa PBW are no exception. My guy is presently in imminent danger of losing his job, which will make me the sole bread winner for a while, maybe as long as the six years we have to go until he retires...

Ten Things to Help You Make Books Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. Blurb.com offers BookSmart*, a free software program you download and use to create a book from your photo and text files before you...

After receiving all the great recs you guys made about how to spend my money at the bookstore, I printed out the list of comments and took a long look at them. First I crossed out the titles that I'd already read (seven), that I already had on order with B&N.com (five), or authors who for whatever r...