Music to Heal Humanity

A friend (Josephine Gross from Networking Times) sent me this amazing speech that’s been kicking around the Internet. I wanted to post it here, so I wrote to the author, Dr. Karl Paulnack, Director of the Music Division at Boston Conservatory (where, as it happens, my...

Being Heard

My office is downstairs in our house; directly above me is the living room, at the edge of which is the location of the food and water dishes of our inimitable seven-pound poodle, Ben. One night while focused on a manuscript at my desk, I heard the pat-pat-pat-pat-pat...

Mission: Change Lives

People have been asking me, “What kind of impact is the state of the economy having on the publishing world? And what kind of impact does it have on writers?” It’s a good news / bad news situation. When the economic ax started falling on Wall Street last fall, the...

Teaching a Generation of Go-Givers

We recently learned that Don Gandy, a public high school principal in Valparaiso, Indiana, and his friend Randy Stelter, an athletic coach and English teacher, have decided to do a team-taught reading of The Go-Giver to their high school senior class and give out...

Deer Diary

Something is moving in the snow-dappled bushes outside my office window. I know it’s there, because I glimpsed movement — but I can’t see any clear shape: To me, this is what the core idea of a new book looks like, when you’re sitting in front of an empty page (or...
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