(Or, things I stole directly from Jamie Harrington.) Jamie mentioned on her blog today that she’d read years ago about picking a word at the beginning of each year and making that word yours for the year. Of course, you should probably pick a word with some meaning behind it, because, well, if you don’t [...]
…potpourri 1. This week is Banned Books Week! Which means that my posts for most of this week will be about the nastiness that is censorship and book banning, but today I just had too many things rumbling around in my brain to do one fully coherent post. So, instead I am basically doing five [...]
A while back, the lovely Jamie Harrington put out a call for beta readers for her new book. Being the wonderful, helpful person that I am (okay, okay…I really wanted to read it real bad! Have you read Jamie’s blog?), I volunteered. When I popped my email open on Monday, her shiny little manuscript was [...]
Thank you Jamie and Jesse for pointing out that it does no good to put a vlog up if nobody can watch it! I guess that’s what I get for trying to hurry things along and not checking the privacy settings before I embed it. It is all fixed now and ready to be viewed. [...]
Or: The Parable of the Wise Chinese Man* But first, the obligatory links and a little clean-up from yesterday’s post… I am super, super excited to learn that Stephenie Meyer’s The Host has been optioned and is on its way to the big screen! The Host is my favorite of Meyer’s books, and with Andrew [...]
Continuing our discussion of banned books (and gearing up for Banned Book Week), check out this awesome post by Laurie Halse Anderson about schools trying to ban her books. The excerpts from her readers’ letters are especially powerful. So, I had started writing a different post today (which will now be posted tomorrow), but after [...]
