We have good news, more good news and then a little bad news. First the bad news. After spending countless hours (and dollars) revising the royalty database, we have decided to shelve it until we can get a new accounting system completed. But now the good news. We will begin posting the monthly (yes, monthly) royalty reports in pdf at a special web address shortly. We will soon email authors the address, the personalized username and password. And now for the "more good news." We are putting the finishing touches on a new author website that will give writing tips, publicity tips and a few nifty surprises. So authors, keep checking your email over the next few weeks.

What to write about
by Bonnie Moss

This is a perennial question among writers and wannabes. Many of us dream of writing a book. Why not. What greater story cans one write about than one's own. Each day brings a new beginning, a new page in the book of life.

What can you write about?

Someone said everyone has a story. How true. Each day that pass by, is a page in your book of life Where to start? From the very depths of your soul, from your heart. What stirs you? What excites you? What challenges you? What frustrates you? What makes you happy?

Are you having the so-called writer's block? All blocks can be readily removed, dealt with and best of all, replaced with determination .Just sit down and start writing. Think of a word, write about that word and keep writing. Simplistic? Not really. A word can get your fingers flying on the keyboard, or if you believe in paper and pen, go ahead and let your thoughts flow out from the tip of your pen to that precious paper.

Develop the habit of writing everyday, yes, everyday. Write something and you'd be amazed at the database of ideas stored in your brain waiting to be discovered. You do not have to write about a new idea, a new concept, a new theory. Think of a fresh approach, a different angle, a different perspective.

Think of this: You go on a nature hike with five of your friends. You take the same route, see the same scenery, under the same canopy of foliage and sky and step on the same terrain, hike under the same weather conditions.

After the hike, surely there will be five different versions of the experience or adventure. You go home and describe the day's hike to family and friends, each one will have different picture of the scenery, of the hikers and their experience. If this day was captured and frozen in time with your camera, each pair of eyes that looks at the picture will have different perspective of each picture. Each one will see different features that attracts their attention.

Life within you, life around you, people in your world, your hobbies, your dreams, your adventures. The list goes on. There is always an angle waiting to be discovered, an idea eager to be interpreted, to be written and shared with the world.

So, what's holding you back? What is important is to just sit down and start writing. Tap into that deep reserve of knowledge that lies deep within. Swim in the river of experience, enjoy the swim as you get in deeper, your strokes stronger and more confident.

Don't put it off for another day. Surprise yourself.

The world awaits to hear from you.

Bonnie Moss may be contacted at http://goldencupcafe.tripod.com . Click here to view more of their articles.
Bonnie Moss writes about spirituality, inspirational and motivational articles where she promotes personal empowerment. She also writes poetry. Her articles are published in high-end e-zines. She provides personal coaching and insight drawing from the wisdom of tarot cards. Visit her website at: http://goldencupcafe.tripod.com

Designing Analog Chips
by Hans Camenzind

A comprehensive introduction to CMOS and bipolar analog IC design. The book presumes no prior knowledge of linear design, making it comprehensible to engineers with a non-analog background. The emphasis is on practical design, covering the entire field with hundreds of examples to explain the choices. Concepts are presented following the history of their discovery.

Strategies for Self Care: A Counselor's Reflections on Interpersonal Wellness is a daily reader of practical and focused thoughts and exercises geared toward interpersonal wellness. We often think of wellness as our physical health, weight, diet, stress management and so on. Interpersonal dynamics form a central and important role in our lives. It is a dimension filled with possibilities for deeper health and well-being physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually in our interpersonal lives.

A young boy's brutal murder is witnessed in a vision by Susan Moore. Riddled with guilt for not having saved the boy, she soon feels her life spiraling out of control.

In a small Texas town, Sheriff Steven Ames is desperate to catch a murderer before tragedy strikes again. Together, Ames and Moore hope to stop the killer. But Susan must come to grips with the limitations of her psychic abilities while Ames has to battle his own demons and deal with a town that no longer has faith in his abilities as a peace officer.

Dear Mr. Fireman captures this innocence and wonder in a way that is both hilarious and poignant. It features children's comments to the author, a twenty-six year veteran of the Brockton Fire Department, that reveal the curious and sometimes painfully honest nature of our nation's greatest asset, its children. This book is a light-hearted look into the minds and hearts of elementary school students as they ponder the great complexities of life, like "What does radar look like," or "Can ants put out flames.." Dear Mr. Fireman is sure to be a treat for readers of all ages.

Beaten, abused and abandoned as a child, Daniel J. O'Connor struggles daily as an adult searching for a normal existence. His one burning desire is to find a woman to love that he can call his wife.

But Daniel finds out there is a price he has to pay for love-a very high price indeed.
Thus the stage is set for this page-turner of a book. John S. Meade has created an unforgettable story that not only shows the beauty of love but also the crippling pain of misplaced love.

Path to Destiny, the ninth book in the Brothers Series and fifth in the Shamrocks Saga, continues the story begun in Shamrocks in the Heather with the adventures of the rapidly maturing younger members of the Quigley clan.

World War II is now virtually over and the Quigley cousins (by whatever name they're known) are struggling to cope with the idea that they have, indeed, survived. One by one and each in his own way they begin to adapt to civilian life. As always, unexpected coincidences seem to dictate their fate.