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Diagnosing Literary Characters, One Murderer at a Time

Murder is contextual. Meaning, the action of killing by itself tells us nothing about underlying motivation. A murder in war, for example, has an entirely different motive than a serial killer’s compulsive, methodical kills. It’s apples and oranges, really: both fruit on the outside, but very different on the inside.…

BookTrib Guest AuthorSeptember 9, 2016

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Author Sally Allen Suggests 10 Twists on the Same Ole Book Club

I love books. I love reading them, collecting them, talking about them, writing about them. I’ve even been known to hug a book, now and again. I am that person who is forever shoving books into friends’ hands, urging, “Read this!” I have an “Oh! That reminds me of this…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 23, 2016

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Author Alan C. Fox: Why Positive Reinforcement is (almost) Always Better Than Negative

Years ago, a University of Southern California professor who was teaching a psychology class I was sitting in on taught me an important lesson about human behavior. He suggested that positive reinforcement is a more effective way of getting people to do what you want than negative reinforcement. “What?!?!?!” I…

BookTrib Guest AuthorApril 19, 2016

Nonfiction

Author Alan C. Fox Says: The Best Defense is No Defense

When I think of defense, I think of forts in the 19th century American West, where settlers huddled, protected from attack by walls and the U.S. army. I think of castles in England, with drawbridges, gates, and moats. I think of Neighborhood Watch groups, trying to spot potential intruders and…

BookTrib Guest AuthorApril 12, 2016

Fiction

NaNoWriMo: Is Your Inspiration Fading? Here are 3 Tips to Keep Writing

Here you are, halfway through November—National Novel Writing Month—and there’s about a gazillion and one things you seem to be doing other than writing. What’s happened to your carefully laid plans for writing a certain word count every day? What happened to prioritizing your writing (and letting the kids have…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2015

Miscellany

Life is Funny: 5 Tips on How to Write Humor in Your Work

People like to give advice on how to try to be funny when they write. Here’s the short version of my advice: Don’t. Humor happens, so let it, don’t force it. Turn on a TV, or a video streaming site, even if only for an experiment and drink in how…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 9, 2015

Nonfiction

A Teen Girl’s Journey: Learning to Love Iran Through its Food

I shish you not, when I first stepped foot in Iran my jaw dropped to the sandy floor because of the Third World foods being prepared for sale in restaurants and kiosks. In my mind, the odors of intestines, brains and tongues of sheep could possibly cause nerve damage. I…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 6, 2015

Fiction

4 Fictional Cities We Wish Existed in the Real World

Sometimes when we find ourselves so enveloped in a TV show or book, we often imagine what it would be like to be a resident of the fictional hometown or city. Not only do we want to live in the town, but we'd obviously want to check out the local…

BookTrib Guest AuthorSeptember 14, 2015

Nonfiction

Five Hidden Pearls of African-American Literature

As an African-American writer, I have long been a student of black writers from many different genres who have influenced, inspired, challenged, enlightened, and entertained me. We’ve all heard of the obvious ones: the speeches of Frederick Douglass, the poetry of Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man,…

BookTrib Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2015

Nonfiction

On the 70th Anniversary of V-J Day, a WWII Hero Looks Back

August 15 marks the 70th anniversary of V-J (Victory over Japan) Day. For many of us this date may be no more than another Saturday filled with afternoon barbecues and summer fun. For others, it is a day of much greater significance. It was on this date in 1945 that…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2015

Nonfiction

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

Over the rest of this century, judgments about the prominence and impact of race in American society will need to take into account a series of recent critical events. The outright social rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore, the racially motivated massacre in Charleston, and the ever-continuing series of unarmed black…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 12, 2015

Fiction

When Sequels Whisper in Your Ear

Have you ever finished a novel and wished the author would write another with the same characters? Some novels are so hard to let go of. They linger. They nag. They whisper in our ears when we're sleeping. "So what happened next?" Some of my most popular novels were conceived…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJuly 21, 2015

Nonfiction

Marie White Small, Winner of When Words Count, Shares Her Journey

In September 2012, I came across a sweepstakes announcement inviting writers to apply for a free three-day stay at a mountaintop writer’s retreat in Central Vermont. Contests were seldom on my radar but given that the destination, When Words Count Retreat, was two hours from my home in southern Vermont,…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJuly 21, 2015

Nonfiction

The Black Writer’s Burden: Sins of Transracial Fiction

If you pay attention, you’ll notice how often we Americans mimic a version of Black dialect and persona. We shift our speech and demeanor, usually only momentarily and often with the intent to create momentary comic relief. These fleeting moments of burlesque evoke a stylized version of how Black people…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJuly 14, 2015

Nonfiction

Summer solstice is the longest day for those with Alzheimer’s

As a child, I started counting daylight minutes beginning with the winter solstice. Today, at age 64, I stand still in the sun on the longest day, but for a different reason. The longest day has new meaning for me as I battle Alzheimer’s disease. For those afflicted, and for…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJune 18, 2015

Nonfiction

7 common traps that blow your diet

Dieting can be difficult—if it were easy, two-thirds of Americans wouldn’t be overweight. To successfully lose weight (and not gain it back!), dieters need to learn two sets of skills: how to identify the traps that get them off track and what strategies they can use to overcome them. The…

BookTrib Guest AuthorApril 21, 2015

BookTrib Guest Author

Diagnosing Literary Characters, One Murderer at a Time

Author Sally Allen Suggests 10 Twists on the Same Ole Book Club

Author Alan C. Fox: Why Positive Reinforcement is (almost) Always Better Than Negative

Author Alan C. Fox Says: The Best Defense is No Defense

NaNoWriMo: Is Your Inspiration Fading? Here are 3 Tips to Keep Writing

Life is Funny: 5 Tips on How to Write Humor in Your Work

A Teen Girl’s Journey: Learning to Love Iran Through its Food

4 Fictional Cities We Wish Existed in the Real World

Five Hidden Pearls of African-American Literature

On the 70th Anniversary of V-J Day, a WWII Hero Looks Back

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

When Sequels Whisper in Your Ear

Marie White Small, Winner of When Words Count, Shares Her Journey

The Black Writer’s Burden: Sins of Transracial Fiction

Summer solstice is the longest day for those with Alzheimer’s

7 common traps that blow your diet

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