An absolutely beautiful and crucial book about the volcanic spine of Mexico's nearly one thousand mile-long peninsula. Published by Plan...

Gene Logsdon, "Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Agriculture" By the author of the greatest read of 2011, Holy Sh*t . I am n...

Kind of a bizarrely fun way to spend the weekend: using Apple's Keynote program, I'm putting together a YouTube thingamajig about th...

I've begun work, at last, seriously, on a couple of new books, but the question of book promotion continues to amuse, fascinate, and con...

New on my writing workshop page: podcasts for writers . To date these include: On Decluttering Your Writing or, Respecting the Integrity of...

Rarely have I read anything so exquisite that has also made me laugh out loud so many times as Mary Lutyens' memoir, To Be Young . Alas,...

READ THIS POST ON THE NEW PLATFORM AT www.MADAM-MAYO.com Last Saturday I gave a talk on writing historical fiction at the annual American In...

The Astral Plane by C.W. Leadbeater And so many more once very rare and now free ebooks at Project Gutenberg Book xylophone A charmingly en...

A most fascinating conversation this morning in Mexico City, apropos of which, this batch of links (some for me, some for my friend, and all...

The best novelists are sociologists with a wicked sense of humor. In her widely celebrated novels Beach Week, Acceptance, and Rockville Pike...