The Kindle Chronicles

Mystic, Episcopal Priest, and Author Links Cynthia Bourgeault’s website Books by Cynthia Wisdom Waypoints Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm, an on-demand e-course available through Spirituality & Practice Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journal into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is available at Audible Podcasts. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Principal Product Manager, Kindle Vella Interview starts at 13:45 and ends at 49:18 Note: I will be discussing my Virginia Milner interview Tuesday July 27th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note: audio in the podcast incorrectly states the Clubhouse meeting will be on Monday) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.  Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021 Kindle Direct Publishing including Kindle Vella Death and Life: A Biography by Hugh Howey - on Kindle Vella Other Vellas to check out: WOLF (Stope Packs #1) by Rebecca Zanetti Bug by Callie Chase The Marriage Auction by Audrey Carlan Readwise read.Amazon.com Gabriel Allon (21-book series) by Daniel Silva Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowack No

President of the Ocean Park Association Interview starts at 2:41 and ends at 47:17 Note: I will be discussing my Rob Drake interview Tuesday July 20th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. (Please note change from usual scheduling on Mondays) Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Launches Kindle Vella - press release July 13, 2021 Ocean Park Association - Ocean Park, Maine Ocean Park Vision Survey Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre Mrs. Osmond: A Novel by John Banville Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Commisario Brunettti (30-book series) by Donna Leon The Maisie Dobbs series (16 books) by Jacqueline Winspear Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood Next Week’s Guest Virginia Milner, principal product manager for Kindle Vella.  If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, an

Author of The Lost Girls Interview starts at 2:27 and ends at 33:08 Photo by Joanne Chiarella Note: I will be discussing my Jessica Chiarella interview Monday July 12th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Jeff Tweedy interviewed by Ezra Klein - July 2, 2021 How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy And Again: A Novel by Jessica Chiarella DePaul University interview with Jessicva Chiarelli (YouTube)  Serial podcast Season One The Jinx - HBO Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Martian by Andy Weir Next Week’s Guest Rob Drake, incoming President of the Ocean Park Association If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash brie

Author of Dead by Dawn, (Mike Bowditch Mysteries Book 12) Interview starts at 6:30 and ends at 53:13 Photo by Mark Fleming Note: I will be discussing my Paul Doiron interview Monday July 5th, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Laufey website Paul Doiron Mike Bowditch Mysteries (12-Book Series) by Paul Doiron Kristen Lindquist  C J Box Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Luanne Rice Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales Down East Magazine Jeff Bezos invites Wally Funk to join him on the first crewed Blue Origin flight on July 20th. (Instagram video) - July 1, 2021 Next Week’s Guest Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls, available for pre-order with release on July 6, 2021 If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Jour

Co-founder of Matter Interview starts at 16:06 and ends at 56:21 Note: I will be discussing my Ben Springwater interview Monday June 28, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Prime Day press release - June 23, 2021 Kobo Elipsa reMarkable 2 tablet Helix Jump at the App Store Click here for my personal invite to join Matter “On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt (PDF), first published in 1986, followed by an 81-page book with the same title  in 2005.  “How I Became the Honest Broker” by Ted Gioia at his Culture Notes of an Honest Broker newsletter - May 26, 2021 Readwise Andy Matuschak Substack Letters from an American - Substack newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson Noahpinion - Substack newsletter by Noah Smith Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ Next Week’s Guest Paul Doiron, author of Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch M

Digital Public Library of America’s Director of Business Development & Senior Strategist Interview starts at 13:17 and ends at 46:40 Note: I will be discussing my Michele Kimpton interview Monday June 21, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Digital Public Library of America DPLA Exchange SimplyE e-reader app “DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their books available to U.S. libraries” (press release) - May 18, 2021 “Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021 “The best early Prime Day deals” by Brandon Widder at The Verge - June 16, 2021 The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer Nameless Season 2, Amazon Original Stories by Dean Koontz Next Week’s Guest Ben Springwater, founder of Matter If you’d like b

Author of Mop Rides the Waves of Change Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Jaimal Yogis interview Monday June 14, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Mop Rides the Waves of Change by Jaimal Yogis - available for pre-order with release on July 13, 2021 Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis (2020) Previous books by Jaimal Yogis: The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013) and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (2009) Next Week’s Guest Michele Kimpton, director of business development and senior strategist at the Digital Public Library of America If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morni

Author of House of Crows, a four-part Amazon Original Stories series Interview starts at 6:32 and ends at 44:46 Note: I will be discussing my Lisa Unger interview Monday June 7, 2021, at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Lisa Unger’s home page The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Red Hunter and Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger Dark Corners, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “The Sleep Tight Motel” by Lisa Unger Hush, an Amazon Original Stories collection including “Let Her Be” by Lisa Unger Nameless by Dean Koontz: A Killer Serial (Season 1) and The Killer Finale (Season 2--available for preorder with release starting on June 10, 2021) Confessions on the 7:45: A Novel by Lisa Unger (2020) Available for pre-order with release on October 5, 2021: The Last Girl Ghosted: A Novel by Lisa Unger Next Week’s Gue

Author of Playing the Palace Interview starts at 26:46 and ends at 51:31 Note: I will be discussing my Paul Rudnick interview Monday May 31, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Matter, a social reading app currently in private beta on iOS “The Institutional Yes” by Julia Kirby and Thomas A. Stewart at Harvard Business Review - October, 2007 (An revealing interview with Jeff Bezos) “Amazon’s future beyond Jeff Bezos” at The Economist - May 22, 2021 “D.C. attorney general brings antitrust lawsuit against Amazon” by Cat Zakrzewski and Rachel Lerman at The Washington Post - May 25, 2021 Amazon and MGM press release - May 26, 2021 “Ereader screens are about to get a big upgrade” by Sharmista Sarkar at Techradar - May 25, 2021 “Amazon looking at opening pharmacy stores in U.S.” at Reuters - May 26, 2021 Next Week’s Guest

Author of Pandemic and other thrillers Interview starts at 16:27 and ends at 49:33 Note: I will be discussing my Gerry Riddle interview Monday May 24, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries” by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly - May 18, 2021 “Amazon will distribute ebooks to public libraries” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - May 19, 2021 Digital Public Library of America press release - May 18, 2021 DPLA Exchange SimplyE library E-Reader app for iOS and Android “Amazon Prime Day 2021: These are the deals we think you’ll see” by Russell Holly at CNET - May 21, 2021 Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) at Amazon.com Novels by A. G. Riddle Next Week’s Guest Paul Rudnick, author of Playing the Palace, available for pre-order with release on May 25, 2021 If you’d l

Author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire Interview starts at 2:00 and ends at 34:00 Note: I will be discussing my Brad Stone interview Monday May 17, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (2013) The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone (2017) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the David Rubenstein Show (YouTube)- September 19, 2018 Steve Jobs: A Biography by Walter Isaacson Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy Next Week’s Guest A.G. Riddle, author of Pandemic and other science-based thrillers If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along

Author of The Last Green Valley Interview starts at 6:34 and ends at 49:20 Note: I will be discussing my Mark Sullivan interview Monday May 9, 2021 at 1 pm EDT on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “Amazon Partners with Tile to take on Apple AirTags” by Jon Fortt and Fahiemah Al-Ali at CNBC - May 7, 2021 Kevin Kelly recommends Push to Kindle on Recomendo - $2/month on patreon gets uo 100 credits a month to use with Push to Kindle. 20 credits are apparently free each month. Mark Sullivan’s web page Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT Sleeping Bear: A Thriller by Connor Sullivan (Mark’s son) - available for preorder with release on July 6, 2021. James Patterson’s blurb for the book: “Sleeping Bear is one of the very best thrillers you’ll read this year. It’s one of those rare novels that keeps

Senior Editor at Amazon Original Stories Interview starts at 16:40 and ends at 51:54 Note: I will be discussing my Kjersti Egerdahl interview Monday May 2, 2021 at 1 pm EDT (Note the new day and time) on Clubhouse. Whether you are a current member of Clubhouse or want to join in order to participate in the discussion, click here. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links “LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2021” - Amazon Press Release April 28, 2021 All New Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus press release - April 27, 2020 Fire HD10 Productivity Bundle Kjersti Egerdahl (Linkedin) The Last Girl by Joe Hart   Amazon Original Stories         YOUNG BLOOD by Andrew Barrer         Nameless Season 1 by Dean Koontz         EMERGENCY SKIN by N.K. Jemison         ZIKORA by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie         TURNING POINT: A Short Story by Jeffery Deaver         Currency Collection featuring Kiley Reid, Jia Tolentino, Emma Cline, Justin Torres, Cur

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Interview starts at 9:33 and ends at 51:30 Note: I will be discussing my James McQuivey interview Saturday April 24, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon updates Echo Buds (CNBC) Pre-order Echo Buds (2nd Gen) here at reduced price Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone - available for preorder with delivery May 11, 2021 James McQuivey’s blog posts at Forrester.com Jeff Bezos’s last letter to shareholders as CEO - April 15, 2021 The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich The “Big Five” human personality traits (Psychology Today) “The Clubhouse Party is Over” by Nick Bilton at Vanity Fair - April 23, 2021 Next Week’s Guest Kjersti Egerdahl, senior editor at Amazon Original Stories Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology

Author of Young Blood, an Amazon Original Series trilogy Interview starts at 21:00 and ends at 58:16 Photo by Jason Robbins Note: I will be discussing my Andrew Barrer interview Saturday April 17, 2021 at 4 pm EDT on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Young Blood trilogy (Young Blood, Blue Dog and Crescent Moon) by Andrew Barrer - free to Prime members and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, includes free audio narration. “Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will” by Adam Piore at Newsweek - April 7, 2021 Germantown Academy Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) on Prime Video Die in a Gunfight - to be released this summer A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Audible version narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Audible version) Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Amaz

Zooming with the author of Vanishing Asia Note: I will be discussing my Kevin Kelly interview Saturday April 10, 2021, at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Kevin Kelly’s Kickstarter page for Vanishing Asia Kevin Kelly’s web page “Making a Fairie Door” video at Kevin’s TRY YouTube Channel Next Week’s Guest Andrew Barrer, author of the Young Blood Trilogy, published by Amazon Original Stories Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 8:00 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings

Len, Darlene, Sophie and Deb at our second rental on Sanibel Island Note: There will be no Clubhouse gathering tomorrow, because we are still on our drive from Sanibel to Cambridge, Mass. The weekly post-podcast Clubhouse salon will resume on April 9, 2021. Links Island Inn web cam on Sanibel Len’s Newsletter Posts on Substack: Travels with Sophie - April 2, 2021 Leaving Sanibel - March 30, 2021 Whelk versus iPhone - March 13 The preferred hotel chain of The Kindle Chronicles is Marriott Courtyard! Next Week’s Guest Kevin Kelly, author of Vanishing Asia, a set of 3 books comprising 1,000 pages that captures Asia’s disappearing traditions and vanishing designs, in 35 countries. Click here for Kickstarter page. Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash brief

City Manager of Sanibel, Florida Interview starts at 19:29 and ends at 58:23 Note: I will be discussing my Judith Zimomra interview Saturday March 27, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Halo Band “Bose announces Sleepbuds II” by Chris Welch at The Verge - September 22, 2020 Amazon hiring spree during pandemic by Nick Wingfield at The Information - March 18, 2021 “Amazon picks Twitter fight with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren amid union campaign” by Irina Ivanova at CBS News - March 26, 2021 Judith A. Zimomra, Sanibel City Manager City of Sanibel website Southern Living’s selections for “The South’s Best Beach Towns 2021” - March 9, 2021 Judie’s camera equipment includes a Nikon D3400 body and Tamron zoom lens Judie’s Facebook photos including this one of an Ibis in flight Email from Tom on Kindle software updates: Recent Kindles and Kindle for iOS have h

Founder and President of Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Interview starts at 15:12 and ends at 53:38 Note: I will be discussing my Ann Rittenberg interview Saturday March 20, 2021 at 4 pm ET on Clubhouse. If you are a member of Clubhouse, please click here to join me. I’ve also created a club named The Reading Edge. Use this link to join! Links Amazon Care  Long Live the Nook! Mobi, we hardly knew ye “Michael Dorman to Headline ‘Joe Pickett’ Drama Series Ordered by Spectrum Originals” by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski at Deadline - March 18, 2021 Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency Ann’s 2002 talk at Bennington, “The Successful Writer’s Personality” C.J. Box Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb Dennis Lehane Dead by Dawn: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, 12) by Paul Doiron - available for pre-order with release on June 29, 2021 Amazon Crossing Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series Brad Parks The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North Ameri