My summer reading winds down with two books that couldn't be more dissimilar. The first comes out Tuesday, September 30, and the other is scheduled to arrive on the scene a few days later on October 7. I'm not sure if the cognitive dissonance of read...

Are you a consultant?  Uh huh, unemployed again. That's what we all call ourselves when we're out of work.  However, increasing numbers of workers are calling their employment "quits" and striking out on their own.  The pretty word for this is...

Reading is an integral part of becoming a writer.  I advocate constant alert reading--that is noticing new items, differences from similar products, and differences from previous versions.  And I do mean read everything, not just  your writing format...

Educated, literate writers still confuse advice and advise. The former is a noun; the latter, a verb. When you advise, you dispense advice. How much more simple can it be? We don't even need to explore the meanings of the words. The error is usually...

It's silly Saturday at the Hancock Hacienda. The same could be said of lemons (except for the price): Not bad. Not bad at all, and certainly not as bad as my Cancer Bananas! Copyright 2010 G.L. Hancock

Cynthia Haven launched "The Book Haven" a blog all about the written word last November. She's a humanities writer at Stanford University. Every year, books pour out of Stanford University by the scores, if not by the hundreds. From biography to...