These are journals for both writers and artists.Some pages are blank so that you can draw, doodle, paste pictures, or construct a map of the interior of your mind.Other pages are lined with a teeny-tiny version of a great work of literature. That's where you write your thoughts.A journal is the cheapest form of psychiatry. It's a dear friend who actually won't repeat your secrets. A journal doesn't care how you spell botulism. It won't call the police if you threaten to murder your co-workers. It won't laugh if you share your fantasy of someday winning the Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize on the same day. A journal doesn't mind if it becomes messy, dog-eared, and scribbled as long as it is always within reach.
Susan Brassfield Cogan is a full time writer and occasionally amuses herself as a graphic designer. She writes things that she enjoys and she enjoys quite a lot. She has been at various times a nurse’s aid, a belly dancer, an actress, a journalist, and a radio shock jock. Her career is long, varied, colorful, often exaggerated and occasionally untrue. Cogan is the author of many novels: Black Jade Dragon, Dragon Sword, Tangled Garden, The Button Man, The Last Gift, Heart of the Tengeri, Murder on the Waterfront and The Man Who Needed Killing. Her nonfiction works include: Hands of the Buddha, The Buddha’s Three Jewels, Rewriting the Buddha and The Pocket Darwin. She written numerous short stories, some of them contest winners.