From Maria Popova's Brain Pickings: Thoreau's Oct 28, 1863 Journal Entry

Thoreau: On Not Finding a Publisher and What Success Really Means
“Sitting beside the inert mass of my works, I take up my pen to-night to record what thought or experience I may have had, with as much satisfaction as ever.”

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UP A Tree, With a Good Book...

Think of your young readers this way: up a tree, with a good book and worried that the sixth book in the series marks the end, because then what will he do! All 6 Island Fiction titles are available as e-books at: https://macmillancaribbeanebooks.com/ or jump to Time Swimmer by Gerald Haussman, one of my all time favorite teen titles: https://macmillancaribbeanebooks.com/timeswimmer.html Or why not kick start August reading with: Night of the Indigo by Michael Holgate which won a Silver Moonbeam Medal for "Teen Spirituality" https://macmillancaribbeanebooks.com/night-of-the-indigo.html Pictured: Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy Jackson Photo credit and copyright: J. Johnson What to read when Percy Jackson comes to an end? Now young Caribbean readers have a series rich in speculative fiction sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism. Check out all 6 titles of the Caribbean's first-ever teen series with cinematic writing that even reluctant readers will...

The Presumed Power of Publishers and Getting Published

Above All, Happy Writing, JJ Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing “The publishing industry looks a lot like these best-selling teenage dystopias: white and full of people destroying each other to survive.” Click link: Read article here before my discussion: I agree that this is apparently so. Also, I do think the conversation requires more finesse and maturity if we are to break the vicious cycles that enforce limitations. Everything is subject to change including any glass ceiling, especially if we loosen our mass belief in it. Let's narrow this discussion down. It is in being specific that we may be most likely to access universally accurate assessments and solutions. And I will quote the article itself in fact to underscore my point: "By blaming an intangible force, the (publishing industry) absolves itself of any responsibility…" brackets are mine Exchange the words in brackets and it is easy to see that this sentence ...

Bravo! Joey Clarke - My Tribute to Joey Clarke

BRAVO JC! A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOEY CLARKE A moving tribute service took place in Trinidad on Saturday January 22 nd 2011 at the Top of the Mount, Mount St. Benedict at from 4 to 7 p.m. Bio: Master Playwright, Director, Actor, Producer, Writer, Broadcaster and Copywriter Joey Clarke passed away in Belize on Monday 17 th January 2011 from a massive heart attack. He was forty-seven years old. For more than three decades his prolific talents graced both the Arts and Advertising Industries locally, regionally and internationally. Born in the UK of Jamaican parentage, his early life and career blossomed in Jamaica where he wrote, produced and directed. In 1995, Clarke came to Trinidad and joined the Sugar House Drama Company run by Patti-Anne Ali. Between 1996 and 1999 Sugar House staged five original productions– Matrimoney(Clarke), Maubee (Ali&Clarke), Treasure(Clarke), More Maubee (Ali&Clarke) and Devilish (Cl...

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