A Story about Low-Profile Folks Helping One Another—Especially Writers, Booklovers

Here’s a story about how people who do not have name recognition can help one another—especially when it comes to reading and reviewing books we like. This story praises the services of Midwest Book Review.

“Established in 1976, the Midwest Book Review is … committed to promoting literacy, library use, and small press publishing.” With that simple, descriptive, opening sentence to the organization’s website, the Midwest Book Review (MBR) tells us they publish no less than NINE magazines each month filled with reviews of books. These magazines go to librarians (both community and academic), booksellers, and the general reading public.

My experience with James Cox, editor-in-chief, has been cordial and helpful.

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March Madness! 4 Free Days for eBook Version, "Blinded by Progress"

Let’s keep on getting into strong, engaging, civil conversations about sustainability and Earth’s marvelous ecological capacities! That’s why the OneEarth Project is having our own version of March Madness! Whether or not you’re a lover of basketball’s version of March Madness, we welcome you to the OneEarth Project version. Here are our March Madness numbers: 4, 200, 672, and 8!

4 (Four!) — We’re offering Blinded by Progress for FREE for four days, March 1-4. Speaking of FREE, we just gave away 10 print copies through the Goodreads Giveaways program that ended Feb. 21. The best news is that 672 people registered for one of those copies which means that a lot more people have expressed interest in the themes of the book!

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Why Review Books We Read? I Like Reviewer Kevin Nenstiel's Answer

Kevin NenstielWhen Kevin Nenstiel requested a copy of Blinded by Progress to review, I quickly checked out his blog and discovered that he loved books and taught English at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE. I smiled, because I lived in the Cornhusker State for 16 years and visited Kearney several times. Not that I had any intention of not sending a review copy, but I did so with all the more interest when I learned of this connection. This morning I learned that Nenstiel had posted his review on Wordbasket, his blog.

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