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I took  some pictures of the B&N event this afternoon on my cell phone to post here, but when I got home from that (after running several errands) not only were the pictures missing, so were all my phone numbers and pretty much everything on the phone, and it wouldn’t connect to any service. It’s like I … Read more

Whoa. Whoa… Just watched the first episode of Dr. Who season 4. Whoa. Yeah. It’s that good. I think you should start watching Dr. Who if you haven’t yet. This might be the best show on TV right now. Also, just saw Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and that’s also really good. Some great … Read more

“From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: After reading Forged by Fire, Sharon Draper’s novel about sexual abuse, a seventh-grade girl reported her phys-ed teacher, who has just pled guilty to molesting the girl and her three sisters.”

Perhaps I’m a little late to the discussion of this, as I haven’t had time to keep up on people’s blogs lately, but did you hear about this? After May 1, half the airlines I know of are going to start charging for checking a second bag. That means I’m screwed at Christmas, when I often go home … Read more

I think the LOLcat caption of this one should be “Noa’s Ark kitteh not ready to sale” or something. The intent was to do a Noah’s Ark animals-as-sailors thing, as I had some sailor capes and some animal heads, and I was trying to figure out just how perverse I could get with my ever-patient … Read more

There’s a new Writing Excuses podcast up today, as there is every week. They’ve had some good conversations and I think this is turning out to be a good resource for writers. So if you haven’t stopped by, try it out.  Next week, they’ll be interviewing me, so don’t miss it. I’ll post a link … Read more

My friend* is currently traveling in India visiting another friend. He’s been to Laos several times (where he speaks the language, hence the Lao on the blog) and to several other countries but never to India. The other friend is working on a documentary for a small school for a few months, so they’re meeting … Read more

If you haven’t seen today’s PW Children’s Bookshelf, go take a look at more coverage of Operation Teen Book Drop. (Scroll down to “In Brief.”)

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This week I’ve been up to my ears in the duties that most people outside of the writing/publishing world think that an editor spends all her time at: proofreading and copyediting. The truth is that the copyeditor and proofreader are different people from the editor, and that I as the editor do a lot of what might be … Read more