And to celebrate, here's my first post in a week long funfest!  I just have too much to post to constrain myself to one day!  The first installment?  A follow up to the KAZ and Hels' Holiday Spectacular, wabbit style!  Duh.

( A Ninja Night Before Christmas! )

Or, yet another episode of: Where's Waldo, Ninja Style!  (Only one red and white shirt this time, lothi!)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm very pleased to present the latest production from Team Hels and KAZ, friends of mine from Kids Need to Read. Many ninjas played a part in this one, and you'll find that yours truly has a few guest spots here, along ( Read more... )

Ok, so some of you know about the whole Barnes and Noble 'thing' that I've been a little, um, irritated about (until recently, at any rate), but today I heard this little tidbit about Borders, and really...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

( More Anti-SciFi Nonsense... )

Ok, ok, ok!  I'm in already!  The itch to try NaNoWriMo was bad enough when lfvoy led the way, and when gemsong got in on the act, my temptation level skyrocketed and my competitive drive got kicked into second gear.  Still, I was unsure.  But when PJ Haarsma tells a kid to "KEEP ON WRITING: WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, AND REWRITE", well, I must obey the Peej, even ( Read more... )

Sure!  I somehow have never gotten around to posting this, so I thought I'd put it up now.

For your auditory enjoyment, I cordially present you with Nathan Fillion reading the first three chapters of The Softwire.

Enjoy!  And if you like the story, thank PJ Haarsma!  The Softwire is available in stores now...

http://comics.ign.com/articles/746/ ( Read more... )

It is a little known fact that the children's book buyer for Barnes & Noble stores believes that science fiction makes poor books and that kids don't like it.  He tends not to put it on his shelves.  So, when my friend PJ Haarsma wrote The Softwire, they declined to carry the book.  The Softwire is now in its second printing, and it is sold ( Read more... )

Who says books and video games don't get along?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06games.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp

In actual print tomorrow morning, on page A1.  That's right, folks, the front page.  Of the New York Times.  Once again, long live PJ Haarsma.

( Some responses... )

So, I've had a good day...for reasons from nice reviews on some stories (one even said, I couldn't ask for better from Whedon himself) to getting a lot of things done to still riding the wave of good job news and actually completing some writing and the official change of KNTR to a true 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.  My brother-in-law, who had ( Read more... )

Firefly is only a TV show. A TV show that is no more. A damn fine TV show that is no more, but only a TV show nonetheless. But sometimes a simple TV show can be so much more. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Someone once said that "Firefly changed me. It changed my whole life...I made lifelong friends who have improved the ( Read more... )

Oh.  I.  Beg.  To.  Differ.

And so do these little ones.

Here's another post to show off PJ Haarsma, who recently did a book signing at a Barnes and Noble.  Several kids showed up in their PJs to support  PJ's Softwire series, and well, there were fangirls.  Start them young, I always say...after all, Kids Need To Read.  Aliens and scifi and girls in ( Read more... )