Chicano lawyers who write. The editor of Latinos in Lotusland introduces us to some of the writing lawyers of California and in the process gives us some great reading tips.
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In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
Must-read
The new LA Weekly has a terrific cover package on Southern California’s independent bookstores. Gendy Alimurung roams a handful of ‘gloriously idiosyncratic’ indies — Vroman’s, Skylight, Book Soup and Dutton’s, along with two relative newcomers, Family and Diesel — and introduces the idiosyncratic folks who run them.
Lotsa interesting tidbits, like this one:
Tyson Cornell is [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
Must-read
The new LA Weekly has a terrific cover package on Southern California’s independent bookstores. Gendy Alimurung roams a handful of ‘gloriously idiosyncratic’ indies — Vroman’s, Skylight, Book Soup and Dutton’s, along with two relative newcomers, Family and Diesel — and introduces the idiosyncratic folks who run them.
Lotsa interesting tidbits, like this one:
Tyson Cornell is [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
You can shop online from your local independent booksellers. 