Last year, I had the opportunity to tour the site of the new cold-storage facility at O’Hare Airport. (Like any good writer, I took the tour without neither assignment nor deadline, and good luck getting any writer to write anything without a deadline in hand.) The tour was organized by the government of Ecuador, in… [Read More]
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Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies now available for people with print disabilities
Benetech is an organization that uses technology for good. One of its initiatives is using technology to help people with disabilities. Many of these are problems reading traditional print texts; Benetech’s Bookshare program provides access to a range of books for people with low or no vision, among other things. They have a partnership with… [Read More]
Are reverse mortgages good ideas?
I recently wrote about reverse mortgages for Living on the Cheap for one reason: I was curious! How else do writers get ideas? The problem of being house rich and cash poor can hit at any age, but it is especially painful for someone who is retired. A reverse mortgage is a fancy name for… [Read More]
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This counts as a blog post, yes? Of course, yes. It’s summer in Chicago!
Lessons learned in eight years of marketing books
Hedge Funds for Dummies came out in 2006, so I’ve been selling books for eight years already. Yikes! I just completed the 30 Day Book Marketing Challenge, and the last assignment is to write a post about book marketing and the challenge for a participant blog hop. Here’s my advice to authors, general comments about… [Read More]
