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After I published my latest book entitled The Orphan Boy, A Love Affair with Mining in March 2007, I was asked to speak to local groups interested in mining and Colorado history. This is the ultimate reward for an author.

However, after a few speaking engagements, I realized I needed help with my speaking. I took a basic public speaking course at Red Rocks Community College. This was my first speaking course in 16 years of education and 30+ years after I received my geology degree. While… Continue

Diana Burg, author of Dalliance, has developed a series of questions designed for book clubs and a list of terms she used in researching this very special pre-civil war novel. These questions and terms will add to your understanding after reading this historical novel. Dalliance is based on the true story of a divorce trial which kept the United States on the "edge of its seat" before and even during the civil war.

Dalliance, by Diana Burg, is based on… Continue

Social media websites evolved from ideas developed in the mid 1990s. Classmate.com introduced the idea of friends on the internet in 1995. People organized and formed ad hoc discussion groups, which became blogs. In less than 10 years the number of blogs on the internet exploded into the hundreds of millions. People with similar ideas, communicating on the internet, are the basis for social networks and social media websites.

Social media is all about people sharing opinions and comments. Accor… Continue

I just finished updating and revising The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, for 2009, after it was professionally edited.

Discover how to use your knowledge and experience to:

+ Make additional income

+ Tell your story

+ Educate others

The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, will give you basic tools to help you discover what you are passionate about and… Continue

The Genesee Daytime Book Group members will host a book signing party for Genesee, Colorado, author and resident, Diana Burg on Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 pm at the Vista Clubhouse.

Diana Burg's, novel, Dalliance, published by Syracuse University Press is an historical novel based on an actual 1860 divorce trial that riveted the country with newspaper headlines and coverage to rival any modern celebrity divorce. Burg's novel probes the motivations and failings of the prominent parties to the div… Continue