Today is juliabk's birthday. I have not seen you in forever, but I hope that the coming year is an excellent one for you! (You see this reoccurring theme -- no more bad years, we've had enough of them. Make them good ones ( Read more... )

If you missed writer Margaret H. Bonham's essays on book promotion, take a look, you'll learn something ( Read more... )

On Thursday, February 4, CJ Cherryh is blogging at Book View Cafe on the subject of how much the publishing industry has changed since she started back in the 70s. For a nice wrap up of the where the industry is at, visit the blog: http://blog.bookviewcafe.com

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Patrick McGoohan dies at 80

Terence David John PRATCHETT,
OBE, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Author, has been knighted for "services to Literature".

J.K.Rowling proves it was not just timing and luck -- the woman can write. I wish I had said it, because I've finally admitted that I have been living it.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/99-rowlingspeech.html

Amy Sterling Casil, an interesting person and excellent writer, has come up (we think) with the word that can eliminate ever again naming a troll: intershunning. Use it well ( Read more... )

I apologize for being a bad poster -- but I did come up with some important stuff for the current two books, so that's good ( Read more... )

I was sorry not to go to the salt tasting last night, but I wrote 9 pages. (It was after the worst ADD day in a long time.)

I hope this means I'm forgiven.

Where do we learn vocabulary, after they stop giving us spelling tests in third grade? I know now that many people cram for the language portion of the SAT -- I would have scored higher if I'd thought of that. I am especially interested in where we pick up the subtlety of English, which often has dozens of words in various categories. It's why a ( Read more... )