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If you are not a regular reader of The Colbert Report, then the following link might strike you as a touch odd. Perhaps I should explain the show first. Stephen Colbert is a fake pundit who mocks the right-wing talk show personalities by imitating them. Let’s see what his Wikipedia entry says.. ah… here we […]
Top o’ the Monday to you. Today my whirlwind DCness winds down. Just a breakfast and a lunch is planned. Maybe I’ll go watch that young man Nick Hornby do his thing. I return tomorrow, but don’t count on anything exciting quite yet. I’ll recount my knife fight with Cornelia Funke and illegal break-ins alongside […]
I’ve a really really great article found via bookshelves of doom. Now I’ve always had conflicted feelings towards Getty Images. Sometimes I’ll see a great cover and think the Art Director really nailed the essential nature of the book. Like last year when I saw how lovely Jenny Han’s Shug was. Aw. So pretty pretty. […]
Whilst I flit about like a hummingbird on Jolt cola here in monumentally moist Washington D.C., you lucky lous get to sit at home watching YouTube videos. How I envy you. But I’m not bitter. Just to take you to where I am, here’s the looney Drill Cart videos that convinced me that I need […]
We’ve all played around with the notion of writing fiction, haven’t we? I know I have. And so it was with great pleasure that I read the Chrononautic Log’s recent post Ten Things I Don’t Know About Writing. Because frankly, I don’t know a lot of these things either. If any authors would like to […]
The Summer Book Blogger Tour ends today. It had a good run. Plus I lucked out on my authors, which didn’t hurt any. In fact, I had such a good time doing this that I might do a special guest interview sometime next week. Fingers crossed to see if it goes through. After all, I […]
Mystery and stolen gold. Harper Collins editor Jill Santopolo has recently released her very first children’s book Alec Flint: Super Sleuth, a tale of one boy detective and his quest to discover the location of a missing Christopher Columbus exhibit. Called "a solid middle-grade series in the tradition of Encyclopedia Brown," Jill (who is, I […]
Have I mentioned how much I love blogs that can you can set up to post in your absence. Ah, science! Alrighty. Today we feature the third and last interview of a smart-type writerly personage of the kidlit persuasion. Voila, Kirsten Miller. She was grilled by Jen Robinson. She was sixty-minuted by Miss Erin (new […]
"Kiki Strike" was not the first girl-spy book, but it certainly feels like it. It’s a cliched question, but where did you get the idea? The best spies are people that everyone else overlooks. (In the business, they’re called “Gray Men.”) For the most part, adults still see girls of a certain age as innocuous—if […]
Those of you who know me know that of the picky eaters of the world, I’m right up there. There will be no melding of fruit and pastries in my desserts. No green beans or disgusting creamed corn in my meals. And obviously it takes one to know one, as today’s poem by my mother […]