On one of my flights home from Atlanta, I had a conversation about the speed and the convenience of Amazon’s delivery system. At one point I made a joke about “unmarked Amazon vans sitting outside houses, stocked with the items Amazon’s guessed you want to buy, so you’ve no sooner pressed the purchase button than the doorbell rings.” IT WAS A JOKE, PEOPLE. Until this morning, when I discover that Amazon really is experimenting with same-day delivery systems. Amazon’s reading my brain waves again. And frankly, that’s not a good thing. I just hope they’re sharing the signal with Starbucks
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How My Mother Discovered the Amazon
The road to publication is filled with “firsts” for authors – so many that we sometimes forget that we”re pulling others through the looking glass with us. Case in point: my mother. I owe my lifelong love of books and writing in no small part to my mother’s influence. She read to me. She taught me to read. She bought me books and paper and crayons and listened to me read my (likely nonsensical) whimsies over the years. She encouraged and supported me – and she financed a trip to an early writers’ conference (over a decade ago) that set
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