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Can reading good fiction change our personalities? A new study seems to say it can.

A light-hearted Sunday Sample that was originally presented on Mother's Day 2011.

Looking for an ebook reader? Check out this point-by-point comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony e-Readers.

Considering an ebook reading device? Check out this comprehensive list of ereader features to see what all the options are.

Discover the Pixel of Ink ebook readers blog as they join into the Sample Sunday festivities.

Learn to use special Twitter hashtags to help promote your writing and sell your books.

Confused about all the different ebook reading file formats? This article will straighten you out.

Think you'd never want an ebook reader, like the Kindle or Nook? Look at what ereaders have to offer, even for die-hard paper book fans.

Learn the trick for remembering the difference between its and it's, and your and you're.

Is first person point-of-view the right choice for your story? A look at the advantages and disadvantages to using first person POV in fiction writing.

Understanding and using point of view properly is critical to engaging and keeping your reader. Learn about the multitude of options you have to choose from in selecting the point of view that will work best for your story.

A primer on when to use each of these three homophones: two, too, and to.

Learn the proper usage of "loose" and "lose".

Learn a little about the "spider man" in this weekly sample of Little Miss Straight Lace.

If you're ready to take your book sales to a new level, learn how to increase your book's visibility with an Amazon tagging thread.

Book tagging is a unique marketing technique available to authors and publishers on Amazon.com. Learn how to take advantage of this free and easy tool to increase your book's visibility.

Little Miss Straight Lace sports a brand new look. Take a peek under the cover(s).

L.A. Caveman by Christina Crooks. $2.99 from Smashwords. L.A. Caveman is a pure romance with a sexy air that pits hero against heroine in the modern-day corporate world.

The Kissing Room by Cheryl Anne Gardner. $1.99 from Smashwords. The Kissing Room is a dark tale of loss, pain, and desperation, but at the same time, a compelling and powerful love story.

Go back to a future where book banning is a reality, as you read about a modern-day evangelist who is on a crusade to remove quality reading material from a local school system's curriculum.

Rogue Wave by Maureen Miller. $1.49 from Smashwords. Rogue Wave is a lush romantic suspense, complete with modern-day pirates, set in the exotic scenery of the Hawaiian islands.

Not What She Seems by Victorine Lieske. $2.99 from Amazon. Not What She Seems gets high marks for plot complexity, fast pace, and a sprinkling of humor.

Color Me Grey by J.C. Phelps. $4.99 from Smashwords. Color Me Grey is a pro-female action/adventure that is long on story without a lot of messy relationship details.

Reunion by J.L. Penn. $2.99 from Smashwords. Reunion is a lighthearted and witty yet suspenseful story about how an innocent Facebook reunion with an old high school crush turns one woman’s life upside down.

Healing Touch by Jenna Anderson. $0.99 from Smashwords. Divorced mother of one, Tracy Campbell is trying her best to stay out of small town gossip. A mysterious lump on her throat is making it hard. Handsome Dr. Jeremy Nelson is making it harder.

Research into Kashi's cereals finds that they are made with 100% GMO soy-not what most of us consider "all natural".

In a New England Journal of Medicine study of 400,000 aging Americans, the NIH once again proved that coffee drinking is good for your heart, and a bunch of other organs, too.

An examination of several so-called "appetite suppressant" drugs, with insight into how these products actually modify your body chemistry to cause significant, lasting weight loss.

A research review of two major physiologic differences between "natural fatties" and "natural thinnies", and how those differences affect energy expenditure, causing the same number of input calories to result in variable amounts of fat deposition.

A real-world study of how the body's energy expenditure variables respond to changes in intake...or, why your last diet didn't "take".

A look at the "new math" behind the calorie equation, and why we can't fool our fat-o-stats with step-aerobics and Lean Cuisines.

The greatest medical myth of all time is that obesity, or any degree of excessive body fatness, is the direct result of excessive food intake and/or insufficient exercise. What hard evidence exists to controvert this belief?