From The Editor’s Desk – Dara Rochlin Book Doctor

Pens… Pencils… Notebooks… Pads… Oh My

If you didn’t know, I’m a pen-a-holic. I’m also a notebook and pad hoarder. If I find something I like,

Welcome back … how has it been 10 months since I’ve written on you. I guess it’s the blur of

The dream: a tattered notebook bursting with snippets of fairy poems and the first paragraphs of a bewitching short story…

In my house, we are major Star Wars fans. What better way to celebrate than to embrace May the Fourth,

From the “not on the plan” page today — went to update the bookshelf (portfolio) page on here and it

This is a map of the Mississippi River, created in 1944 by a cartographer named Harold Fisk. It’s called a

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

Errata lists in the early days of printed books, then, were themselves a sort of early comment section—the place where

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear.five hundred twenty five thousand six

Extra, Extra, read all about it! Told you there would be something new and exciting… i’m sure you (like I)

March 2021. A year of sitting home in Los Angeles for COVID, and about three years since I’ve changed the

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but