I'm still alive! I'm feeling quite happy! I think I'll take a walk!

Seriously, though, I am still working hard on revisions, but you can find me as today's guest blogger over at Booklover Carol:

R.J. Anderson on "Writers as Readers"

Feel free to drop by and leave your thoughts about books that have influenced you in the comments!

I've been thinking about authors I love and author blogs I love, and how surprisingly little overlap there seems to be between the two ( Read more... )

Bet you thought I was going to tweet everything from here on... it's tempting, if only because it's so convenient and demands so little time. But I do remember that I have a proper blog, honest. It's just that I'm pretty swamped right now, with less than two weeks to go until my deadline to hand in Wayfarer and lots of revision yet to be done ( Read more... )

Dear Stephen FryYou are a very funny and talented man, and I am not at all surprised that you are also an enormous geek. I am amazed, however, by the sheer insane length of your first blog post, and the fact that it is all about electronic gadgetry. I don't know why I expected you to still write everything down on parchment with a fountain pen and ( Read more... )

Does anybody on my f-list know of a utility that imports old Blogger posts into LiveJournal? I mean, it seems like the kind of thing lots of people would want to do, surely somebody must have written one by now...?

Otherwise known as my "hey, I'm back from camp and I feel like a zombie" post ( Read more... )

Gacked from the ever-wonderful fuseno8, whose links bring all the authors to her yard -- a v. interesting article about the difficulty of translating HP into Hindi. becominghuman, I thought of you:

Should You Address Prof. Snape with Respect?

And in other HP news, I am driving into Toronto today to have supper with melissaanelli! I haven't seen her in person since October 2002, ( Read more... )

Thanks to jmprince for pointing me to Editorial Anonymous: A Blog of a Children's Book Editor. I've created a LiveJournal feed for those who'd like to have the posts show up on their friendslist:

editorial_anon

*wanders off, still snickering about the 6,000-word picture book*

For those on my f-list who might be interested, I've just created a feed for the "Sword of Gryffindor" blog, which looks favourably at the Harry Potter books from an evangelical Christian perspective: sword_gryff.

For those interested in keeping up with mystery/suspense author Laurie R. King's new blog via LJ, I've just created a new feed, lrk_mutterings.

Hopefully it works.