We are pleased to announce The Brandon Student Design Award. This award seeks to honor the young design talent of Brandon Haskins (1988-2010) who was the acting Chief Creative Officer of CBP at the time of his death. Brandon had a natural talent that blossomed through design courses as a high school and college student. However, Brandon's greatest growth in his design skills came through mentorship and active participation in real life design projects.

The Clay Bridge...

Writers Write by Kate Johnsen

Everyone has a book inside of them because everyone has a story to tell.  If it’s your dream to write, stop thinking about it and put your pen to the paper or your fingers on the keyboard.  Writers write.  Your story and characters will blossom as you spend time with them and allow them to develop.

Find a time and place to write regularly.  “Routine is the housekeeper of inspi...

With all the talk of books being replaced with eBooks, I thought I should weigh-in with an opinion.

While there has been a downturn in sales volume of purchased books overall in the world, I believe it is for economic reasons not publishing reasons. And there has been an increase in eBook sales volume, but not because they are thumbing their noses at traditional books exactly, but because it is a new exciting technology. There is always a surge toward new technology before ...

This was posted on 10/3/09 as a guest blog by Melissa Leembruggen. To see the book reviews by MawBooks and the original post with pictures please visit http://blog.mawbooks.com.

For me, writing is something that I’ve explored throughout my life,but not in a passionate and serious way. At times, poems and essaysjust spilled forth from me without my intellectual purpose or thoughtprocess saying, “Ok, I am going to write now.”

My first two bo...

As the President of Clay Bridges Communications and Publishing, I've been in it from the beginning.  In fact, you could say that for a decade, I was Clay Bridges Communications!  But that is no longer true.

Our organization is expanding and growing.  But, in order to do that the old must go, to make room for the new.

This is not always easy for someone stuck in their ways and used to working independently. In the last 3 months every aspect o...