Ah, September. The month when the kiddos go back to school, the air starts cooling, and the leaves begin their beautiful transformation. Also, the month when ignorant book banners come crawling out of the woodwork, trying to force their beliefs on everyone else. Twitter and the Blogoverse blew up yesterday when Wesley Scroggins, an Associate [...]
In Beautiful Malice (I told you that book sticks with me – don’t worry, I will try my best to not be spoilery here), the main character hides who she truly is. She has her reasons–she wants to put her old life behind her and doesn’t want everyone to know what happened in her past. [...]
…things on my mind (complete with pictures!): 1. Andrew’s Bad Girl BlogFest is tomorrow. Yeah, I don’t have a new post for this one. My time is in short supply these days, so any writing time I have goes to So97. Sometimes I can write a blogfest entry as part of So97, but it didn’t [...]
Remember how I was participating in NaNoWriMo this year? Yeah…that didn’t so much happen. Apparently my body thought November was a really bad month to be writing a novel. I was sick the first two days of the month. Then I got better. Then I was sick again the entire second week (and part of [...]
In case you didn’t know, Harlequin Enterprises (yanno, the romance publishers) opened a vanity press this week. No. Good. Why is this bad? I could rant about it here, but I have found that when I rant about it, eyes start to glaze over. Instead, I will share a delightful picture that makes me smile [...]
…to my immune system. Dear Immune System; It has come to my attention that you have been severely slacking on the job. Germs are not being blocked, and viruses are partying behind your defense post. Your behavior is completely unacceptable, and there is no reason for it. Immune System, the administration has decided to give [...]
I have had a great time with the Great Books Week Blog Tour this week. But, like all great things, it is now ending. The prompts have been fun, and they have forced me to look back on the great books I have read. I have thought a lot this week about what constitutes a [...]
Before reading my post, head over to Janet Reid’s blog to learn more about the new FTC guidelines. I hated … when I had to read it in high school, but when I read it on my own later, I loved it because…. My junior year of high school, I was in Honors English. We [...]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this (un)paid advertisement: I don’t review books on my blog. I considered the idea–and even thought it was a great one–before I launched my site, but eventually decided against it. Why? Because I am a fairly selfish person. Book reviews take a lot of time, and [...]
*Rant alert* Every Wednesday night, there is a YA lit chat on Twitter. A bunch of YA authors, editors, readers, whatever get together to talk about all things Young Adult. Some weeks we just have free discussion; other weeks there is a specific topic. I was not able to participate in YAlitchat last night, but [...]
