Notes from Around the Web
Shabbat shalom!
Shabbat shalom!
I’ll be doing some traveling today (I’m lucky–it’s an easy trip, and I’m a mere passenger, not a driver/pilot/conductor). I do hope that at some point, I’ll be able to plug in my headphones and enjoy this terrific “Big Think” series of author commentaries on the theme of writing fiction. Here are just a few of the particpants’ names to pique your interest: Salman Rushdie, Isabel Allende, Anne Lamott. (Hat tip, for the second time this week, to Mark Athitakis for the find.)
I know that many of you will be celebrating Christmas this weekend, and I want to wish you all a wonderful, meaningful, and very merry holiday.
And I’ll look forward to seeing everyone back here on Monday.
So, this past Sunday (December 19) marked the one-month point in the countdown to the publication of my short-story collection, Quiet Americans, which will be released January 19 by Last Light Studio.
If you’ve been following along, you’re pretty up-to-date on the road we’ve been traveling to this point. Most recently, on Sunday, our first two giveaways came to a close. Three lucky readers won free early copies of Quiet Americans via Goodreads, and another two received copies simply by virtue of having been kind enough to sign on to our Facebook page.
In the coming weeks/next couple of months, you can expect to see new giveaway opportunities announced. Join our Facebook page for updates, and check back here for news about anything that will be offered via Goodreads.
There’s lots more to do in the next few weeks before the book is officially “born.” Here are a few things on my to-do list:
Think that’s enough for the moment?
It is demeaning, 65 years after the fall of Nazi Germany, to acknowledge that Joseph Goebbels’s Big Lie theory — that if you repeat a falsehood aggressively, and often enough, people will believe it — still holds true.
But when I look at the persistent, illogical and hateful charges against Israel in the Arab world and the international community, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Read more at The Jewish Week.