Image Credit Amazon Donna Napoli’s Treasury of Greek Mythology is a Gorgeous Book. It is currently in print and NOT on gutenberg.org and NOT out of copyright. I own all of the mythology books in this series, and I’ll show you how to create a citation for any book currently in print. Scribbr is a…
Month: October 2022
How to Create MLA Citations for Books on Gutenberg
In this post, I’ll show you how to create a citation for a book that you might read on Gutenberg.org. First Tip If you read a book on gutenberg.org your citation will be created as a webpage–even though you are reading the book itself. My college students will be researching Greek Mythology, which I believe…
How to Research for Writers – Day 1: Find Free Gems on Gutenberg.org
Over the next several days, I will share a few tips about research that I believe many people might find helpful. I am currently teaching this material in my college writing class, and I decided to make the info available to the general public. Nonfiction writers will find these tips especially helpful. Today, I’ll tell…
A Pitch for #PBpitch: How My Picture Book The Donkey’s Song Was Discovered
Over and over again, I have repeated these words: It Is A Miracle That The Donkey’s Song Has Been Published! While I’ll try not to drag you through the entire litany of my publishing story, I’ll repeat a few of the high points. I had convinced myself that I’d never sell a manuscript for a…
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 3
Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, Chapter 3 You can read Chapter 3, in its entirety, at the end of the post. Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the…
How to Use Color-Coded Book Tags to Annotate & Tag a Book
You can Buy Golcellia Transparent Sticky Notes Tabs at Amazon – Link In the above post, I tell you that I use different color book tabs to designate various information. When I see an important quote, I designate that with purple tabs. [You could use any color for that]. When themes are mentioned, I use…
Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Chapter 2
Work Cited Bradbury, Ray. “Prologue.” Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, Reprint, Simon and Schuster, 2017. *****************************************************, The entire second chapter of Something Wicked This Way Comes is at the end of this post. Before I start talking about chapter 2, I want to say a few words about the themes in Something Wicked This…
How to Make A Book or Reading Journal – Free Sample Pages
Daily Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Day Weekly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Week. It’s Good to Assess Your Reading Progress Periodically – A Weekly Check is Good. Monthly Journal Pages to Track Your Reading Progress for the Month. We’ll Finish Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes…