featuring the works of Eugene L. Conrotto
Feb. 2024: We’ve just updated all the links on the site. AMAZON changed their techniques, so we’ve had to zag accordingly. If you order from AMAZON via the links from here, we get a few more cents–but your price remains the same.… Read the rest
On what would have been his 92nd birthday, we fondly remember Eugene L. Conrotto, who sadly left us two years ago.
Those who knew Gene well will not be surprised to learn he had worked on his own obituary for years. … Read the rest
Eugene L. Conrotto was born in Gilroy, California, at the southern end of Santa Clara Valley known today as Silicon Valley.
He has lived his life two decades at a time.
For the first 20 years he was a student, that experience culminating in a degree in anthropology from Stanford University.… Read the rest
Carl Sagan was asked if he could go back in time to visit one place on earth, where would he go?
He chose the Great Library of Alexandria.
From its founding in 300 B.C. to its destruction in 400 A.D, the Library was the major center of scholarship in the Ancient World.… Read the rest
As we find interesting nuggets in the archives, we will digitize and make them available. First entries are from early in Mr. Conrotto’s teaching career: material on how to give a speech, and a summer school project’s report on student communications. … Read the rest
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No less a writer than Erle Stanley Gardner (he of Perry Mason fame) had this to say of Mr. Conrotto:
I have had contacts, both direct and indirect, with Eugene Conrotto for many years. I have known of his activities both as a writer and an editor, and I regard him as a very talented individual with a down to-earth practical approach to the whole subject of writing which will be of great value to anyone interested in magazine writing.… Read the rest
Welcome to the home of Hypatia Media! Here we humbly offer bits of e-publishing goodness, featuring the e-wit and e-wisdom of Eugene L. Conrotto.
Many works are available as trade paperbacks; “e-works” are available for the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook platforms.… Read the rest
There are now many ways to enjoy eBooks. You don’t need an official Kindle or Nook device—you can read them on a computer, a smartphone, or a tablet. You may need to add a program (or “app”) to do so, but the same “app” is available for most devices. … Read the rest
Not an Kindle fan? We’ve got you covered. Mr. Conrotto’s works are now available for the NOOK format, as well.
Like Kindle, there is a NOOK reader app for your PC, tablet, and phone.… Read the rest