Archive for July, 2007
Book Publishing: Finding a Publisher
In the first installment of my book publishing series, I talked about deciding what you want to write and determining whether or not there is a market that will buy the book. You may have a unique or clever idea, but if a publisher isn’t convinced that people will buy your book, they’re not going to invest in the project.
Let’s suppose you’ve got a viable idea for a book. In my case, I had several ideas related to fraud detection and investigation. Your next step is to find a publisher, and below are three options.
Family goes China-free for a year
Sara Bongiorni and her family boycotted all “made in China” products for a year. And it was tough. Sara wrote about her family’s experience in a newly relseased book, “A Year Without ‘Made in China.”‘
She muses that buying shoes and toys and household fix-it items was a challenge when not buying things made in China. Sara says there was no agenda to this project, other than to make other Americans aware of how much international trade influences our lives.
Sara is a business writer in Baton Rouge, and she has written about international trade for 10 years. Yet during that time she failed to consider how international trade numbers really impacted her life. Until she changed her personal buying habits, that is.
It is reported that 15% of goods imported into the U.S. are from China. The draw to Chinese imports is the low prices. Read the article on Yahoo for a little taste of the shopping challenges Sara’s family encountered.
Debunking the global warming myth
All it takes is a little science…
I’ve asked many a global warming believer what the “temperature” of the earth would be without people and without pollution and without all of the other naughty things they believe to cause global warming. Their answer? “I dunno.”
That’s right. So if you don’t know what the temperature of the earth was supposed to be without all these evil influences, how can you honestly say that the earth is warmer than it should be???
Yesterday’s Chicago Sun Times had a great article about the fake science in Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth.” The article makes these great points:
