
Good Comics for Kids
April 16, 2019 by Betsy Bird
Kyle Lukoff discusses his trans boy picture book When Aidan Became a Brother and explains why, to make use of a Rudolph metaphor, "we're all jerk reindeers AND misfit toys at the same time."
May 23, 2016 by Betsy Bird
I’ve done it again. Delayed my Fusenews too long and now this post is going to overflow with too much good stuff. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. Me stuff for the start. And in fact, there just so much Me Stuff today that I’m just going to cram it all into this little paragraph […]
March 24, 2012 by Betsy Bird
I swear that every time my computer goes on the fritz I feel like I’m walking underwater for days on end while it’s in the shop. I can’t do email effectively, I can’t update Goodreads, I can’t do anything without feeling like it’s all fake until that little laptop is returned to my knees where […]
March 14, 2011 by Betsy Bird
I guess that there’s a mild irony to the fact that while I’ll write up anyone’s literary event if I’m able to attend, if I help to throw the darn things myself then suddenly I clam up. For example, with the possible exception of the blogger panel I had two years ago, I don’t think […]
February 20, 2011 by Betsy Bird
I was incredibly sorry to hear that Perry Moore, the producer of the Narnia films and the YA author of Hero was found dead recently. Perry was really just the sweetest guy, the few times I met with him. We speak of people being warm, but Perry really was. There was nothing “Hollywood” about him […]
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