CAN YOU GUESS WHAT'S INSIDE THIS BUILDING?

This was in a group of photos my friend Ira sent me. They were all amazing, but what could be more perfect for a library than a facade composed of huge books? It is a great reminder that books still exist in other forms than the electronic ones.


Kansas City Library, Kansas City, Missouri

WHICH ONE DO I USE? ITS OR IT'S?

There are many quirks in the English language, and these two little words can confound the best of us. 

Spell Check often runs its squiggly line under the word its.  When that happens, most people face the dilemma of figuring out which one to use—it’s or its—and that leaves them wide open to error. Read the rest of the article.

Rescuing vintage typewriters

Have you ever heard someone say that writing on an old-fashioned typewriter was a different experience than using a computer? Some authors even refuse to give up their typewriters.

Embracing funky inventions is the norm, so now all sorts of USB adapted vintage typewriters can be used as keyboards. Several articles have been written in 2012 about this invention as though it had just happened on the scene.

True, it almost seems like an old Rube Goldberg creation, but apparently marrying typewriter nostalgia to computer technology, has been around since at least 2010 according to creator Jack Zylkin. Rescuing vintage typewriters from obsolescence allows devotees to use these clackety old machines as a slick way to pound the keys while hooked up to a PC, Mac or I Pad, so don't include that old Remmington in a garage sale just yet.  READ WHOLE ARTICLE

MAY ISSUE OF WRITERS TRICKS OF THE TRADE WILL PUBLISH ON THE 15TH

Thanks to your support of Writers' Tricks of the Trade eZine, another information-packed issue will publish on May 15. We're still open to receiving readers brags for the May issue or article submissions for the June issue. Just contact WTTmagazine@gmail.com

This is the new cover design and it will become the standard cover. Hey you writers out there, this is your publication so be sure to send your brags, articles, announcements, observations about the current and future state of book publishing, Life stories and more.

Have a great day.