Books The end of an era … and start of a new one 2 May 20165 May 2023 UPDATE 2018: We are back in Red Lodge, but not with a bookstore. Phoenix Pearl Tea is our tea and game business on Broadway, right next door to where Red…
Articles You might be a redneck court reporter 12 Dec 20155 May 2023 This article started out as something I posted on the CompuServe Court Reporters Forum (CRForum) a couple of decades ago, and was turned into an article for MS-Strokes (The magazine…
Articles Steno by the Numbers 17 Nov 20155 May 2023 This article first appeared in the March 2005 issue of the Journal of Court Reporting. Despite being over ten years old, it might be something fun for any court reporters…
Writing Do you need an editor? 24 Oct 201527 Feb 2025 Yes. That was a short article, wasn't it? At the MPIBA conference last weekend, just about everybody had stories to share of authors who don't think they need an editor,…
Books… A peek inside the cashflow of writing books 7 Jul 20155 May 2023 I was poking around on Quora and came across an interesting juxtaposition of questions: Neither of these is an unusual question. Quora is filled with people asking how to make money…
Books Farewell, Sir Terry. You shall be missed! 12 Mar 20155 May 2023 People live. People die. And we deal regularly with the deaths of public figures. Authors, performers, composers, artists, they are as mortal as the rest of us. But sometime one…
Articles Technology for Microcephalic Morons 11 Mar 20151 Feb 2026 This was originally written for an old column of mine called "Technobabble." I wrote it in 2002, and just happened to come find it and think, "Gee, I'll bet people…
Books… 15 Tips for Building Book Trailers in iMovie 4 Mar 201522 Jun 2026 This post is from 2015. Sixteen years later, I created a new trailer for the series, using Adobe's tools this time (Premier Pro and Audition). Over the last four years,…
Random Stuff A note to the ladies about gentlemen in kilts 2 Mar 20151 Feb 2026 There's a lot of talk right now about men invading women's personal space, thanks to recent high-visibility touching by John Travolta and Vice President Joe Biden. It is definitely an issue,…
