Author of Etiquette for Lovers and Killers

Photo © Chris Doody

Links

Anna Fitzgerald Healy's website

The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: 50th Anniversary Edition

"The Vampire Facial" by Anna Fitzgerald Healy, reprinted in Dark Matter Magazine

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Audiobook preview for Etiquette for Lovers and Killers (YouTube)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Wood Island Lighthouse

Amazon page for Alexa+

"More Than a Million People Now Have Alexa Plus" by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge - June 10, 2025

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of The Day Makes the Year

Links

The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life): Transform Your Work and Life with One-Day Success by Doug Fleener

Doug’s web site

See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar

The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage by Richard Rohr

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

                                   Kindle Chronicles staff at Alexa+ Event in NYC

Links

Alexa+

The Outsiders

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Meet the New Alexa

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

                                    Author of A Devil Went Down to Georgia

                                                          Photo by Matt H. King

Links

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau

Deb Miller Landau’s web site

Simon & Schuster page

“29 Best True Crime Books That’ll Make You Want to Sleep with the Lights on” (Oprah Daily) - August 28, 2024

YouTube Interviews with Deb Miller Landau: KATU Lifestyle, Georgia Center for the Book, Once Upon a Crime Podcast

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

                          Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Links

James McQuivey’s Forrester Research page

ChatGPT

How to create custom GPT’s (YouTube)

Delphi AI Clone

Grok by xAI

NotebookLM

Humane AI Pin

Rabbit R1

Claude by Anthropic

Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro on eBay

Meta Quest 3 headset

Palm Pilot (Wikipedia)

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

                 Author of Lose Your Critic for Good: A Step-by-Step Process for Reclaiming Your Spirit

Links

Lose Your Critic for Good at Amazon (available for pre-order with release on January 14, 2025)

Practical Spirituality, Sue Erhart’s blog

Sue’s Practical Spirituality Podcast and Courses

1:1 Coaching with Sue

Valeria Teles’s interview with Sue at Fit for Joy (YouTube) - December 26, 2025

Sue’s interview with Lacey Jones on the Elevate the Individual podcast - September 28, 2025

Click here for YouTube version of this interview

To hear my Morning Journal flash briefing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, flash.” I also include the Morning Journal audio files on those same days at my Substack Newsletter, 

Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

New Kindle Colorsoft, Scribe, Paperwhite 12th Gen, and Basic

I will post this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles Tuesday October 16, 2024 at 9 a.m. EDT, when the embargo lifts on yesterday's Amazon briefing here in New York City.

Later I will update this page with links.

The big news is, at long last, a color Kindle. It is available for pre-order today for $279.99 with delivery October 30th. 

There is also a new Kindle Scribe, available for pre-order today for $399.99 with delivery December 4th. It has some cool new annotation features and Generative AI smarts. 

The "all-new" Paperwhite and basic Kindle are available for shipment today. Those changes are incremental but not trivial. 

I'm glad to see Amazon's new head of devices and services, Panos Panay, is all in for the Kindle!

Technical Advisor for Amazon’s Worldwide Prime organization

Links

Amazon First Reads

Prime Reading

Amazon Pharmacy

Rx Pass

Amazon Photos

Rufus

“A Shopper’s Best Friend? Meet Rufus, Amazon’s New AI Helper” at Len’s Newsletter on Substack

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, flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 10 a.m. Eastern Time. 

In this special episode of The Kindle Chronicles, my guest is ChatGPT. I had no idea I could use OpenAI's revolutionary AI assistant as a Thought Partner. That's how Peter Deng, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT uses the tool he leads. 

So, on a tight deadline this morning at the Hampton Inn Capitol/University, I put together an "interview" with ChatGPT and recorded it. I left the gaps where my Thought Partner (TP) was thinking, illustrated on my iPhone as a cloud pulsing, so you will hear how long TP took to come up with pretty amazing answers.

SXSW is going to make Peter's talk available on demand, but it's not up yet. I highly recommend that you watch it if you get the chance. He discusses safety issues, OpenAI's chaotic leadership crisis last year, and many other topics. John Constine of SignalFire, a venture capital firm, did an outstanding job peppering Deng with questions and then summarizing the entire one-hour conversation at the end. 

I took notes in a Substack draft post using Vision Pro during the keynote. I plan to tidy them up and send them out, perhaps during my layover at DFW. 

This was my best South By ever, after nearly 15 years of covering the event. I hope you enjoy the show!

 At left, Founder of New Things Lab

I spoke by Zoom today with Nyckle Sijtsma in Delft, Netherlands, about his inspiring design company. I discovered New Things via an Instagram ad for the Memo White Board, a product I truly love. You will hear all about it in this conversation, along with Nyckle's personal mission to "help people think clearly." 

Links:

The Memo White Board, $69

My YouTube video demonstrating the Memo - February 27, 2024

YouTube video of this interview

Right-click here to open and save the audio file for this episode.