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 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Libraries sparked my early love affair with books. My second grade teacher at E. J. Marshall Elementary School held reading contests to keep bookworms like me busy over the summer. A favorite childhood memory is Mom taking me to the Chino Library. I’d arrive with...
by Larry Burns | Sep 27, 2017 | economic development, higher education, leadership, literacy, things to do in riverside, Uncategorized, writing
If you find yourself in downtown Riverside, be sure to drop by the second floor of Riverside Library’s Main Branch – it’s right next door to The Historic Mission Inn Hotel and Spa. And since this flash is space and place based, it occupies the future home of the...
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 | Dec 1, 2016 | art, Uncategorized, writing
With some time before my first traditionally published book, 100 Things to do in Riverside Before You Die, is due to my publisher Reedy Press, I sent a draft off to three readers. And waited. The wait gave me time to consider why I asked these three to read for me in...
