by Larry Burns | Jun 7, 2021 | happiness, literacy, publishing, reading, writing
Two years ago, during the faraway endless Summer of 2019, I started a fling with e-books. It was innocent enough. Riverside Public Library recently purchased a license for cloudLibrary – a smartphone tool for checking out free electronic books. I was home alone,...
by Larry Burns | Nov 30, 2020 | art, happiness, publishing, Uncategorized, writing
Do you hear that steady tap-tap-tap of creative output? If you are like hundreds of other writers across the Inland Empire, you’re contributing to the cacophony of clattering keystrokes at a rate of 1667 times per day, every day, across November. Yes, that includes...
by Larry Burns | May 2, 2019 | art, happiness, home, nature, publishing, Uncategorized, writing
I recently completed a book about the rich cultural landscape of the Inland Empire. That book, Secret Inland Empire, provided a way for me to share stories about the Inland Empire, illustrating our rich and diverse cultural landscape. In college I took a course called...
by Larry Burns | Feb 10, 2017 | advertising, amazon, art, belief, facebook, Indie, marketing, publishing, things to do in riverside, Uncategorized, writing
If you are like me, when you think about the writer’s life, it involves power, paper, ink, coffee, late nights, early mornings, and feeling like you may never finish that next project. But there comes a time when you put the pen down, and pick up the phone,...
by Larry Burns | Nov 7, 2016 | Indie, publishing, Uncategorized, writing
Since 2011, writers and readers of independently published works have designated October as Indie Author Month. What began as a small group of publishers and writers from around Indianapolis has grown into a national celebration. Coffee shops, libraries,...
