Fusenews: Parties and Paperbacks

• Name Monica’s dog.  Do it.

•  Fine Lines tries its hand at Judy Blume’s infamous Deenie.  Masturbation and scoliosis, together at last.  I’ve seen Ms. Blume speak about this book and the responses she got to it.  My favorite story involved her encounter with a young girl.  Remember that in the book Deenie touches her "special spot" and it makes her feel better.  The girl, all wide-eyed innocence, informed Ms. Blume that she too had a special spot.  Hers just happened to be on her elbow.  Awwwwww.

• Whenever one of my favorite bloggers goes on hiatus for a while it’s always an extra thrill to see them return.  For example, I love me my Pixie Stix Kids so it was with great pleasure that I saw that she has posted her Tips for Success in the Children’s Book Industry.  Much linking went into this post.  Definitely worth seeking out.  Thanks to Jen Robinson for the link.

• I went to the Firebrand Literary agency party the other day.  The party was in celebration of a relaunch of the agency, founded by Nadia Cornier, and containing such luminaries as Michael Stearns, Elana Roth, and Ted Malawer.  It was rather lovely.  You walk into a wine cellar and you know lots of great people.  Too often I attend these functions and end up grabbing ahold of the nearest familiar face, not letting go until I am physically pulled off their arm like a socially inept leech.  This time I appeared to be the only librarian (score?) but not the only blogger.  Ron Hogan and a fellow Galleycat blogger were present.  Notable party aspects: there was popcorn (?) and a gorgeous Amazon / Keeper of the Wine who could use the term "buttery" when describing a vintage and not sound ridiculous while doing so.  Firebrand has been informed that they should do this sort of thing more often.  By me.  They have been informed by me.

• Being the great big Alabama Moon fan that I am (Watt Key, I love thee), I missed the discussion on Alison Morris’ ShelfTalker blog regarding its upcoming paperback cover.  Potential paperback #1 had a running silhouette that was less than entirely pleasing.  Alison has a sneak peek of cover #2.  Looks a lot like the original hardcover to me (sans words) which, considering that I rather fancied the original, is fine n’ dandy.

• Daily Image:

Got this debate on the literary merits (or lack thereof) of Moby Dick from J.L. Bell at Oz and Ends.

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