Ray Bradbury got started with a daily writing habit after he was touched by an electrified sword in 1932.

Female friendhip frees you and encourages you to be yourself at any time, in any place in the world, in any circumstance - even naked.

The Rainbow Atlas shows the world and all its peoples in brilliant living color in both natural and created settings.

The Women in the Castle presents the German perspective during Hitler's time, attempting to answer the question, "How Did This Happen?

To win the "Current Wars, Thomas Edison resorted to dirty marketing. He used Westinghouse's current in the electric chair.

Wouldn’t it be nice if when you bought historical fiction, you'd know how much is fact and how much is fiction? We need a veracity scale.

Three recent books tell the important stories of women whose impact is still felt today: a codebreaker, an actress, and an amputee spy.

Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night, published in 2016, is the stunning story of how America came to be electrified in the late 1800s.

Sylvia Plath's Wish: To Live, love, and say it well in good sentences. She never understood how well she'd said it.

People actually believed in fairies, as evidenced in the Cottingly Fairy Photo hoax. Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book is a fun parody.

My friends are all in their 80s and in declining health. The odds of us all being together next Christmas are decreasing every day.

The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.

When you attend a book signing, ask writers to inscribe their books with one condensed piece of writing wisdom.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.

Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Data analysis proved that Stephen King was right. The best writing has few adverbs.

What makes writers commit literary fraud? The Education of Little Tree, A Million Little Pieces, Misha, Angel at the Fence are all hoaxes.

Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.

Brilliant Maps delivers a zinger to your mind in the form of infographic-maps. Easy to see and quick to decipher in bold, boisterous color.

If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.

The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.