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Vote for me?
I know this is the dorkiest thing ever, but I like Hanson and I have liked them for 13 years and I am going to see them in concert soon and I think it would be awesome if they wrote a song about me so CLICK ON THE BANNER! Click often! Every time you do it enters me in their contest. CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK ( Read more... ) -
This... might... work?
Why is it that the technologically incompetent also lead such interesting, mystery-shrouded lives, and yet are unable to keep the common people updated on their daily ventures simply because they don't know enough HTML to put nice things on their blogs ( Read more... ) -
Ten years later...
Okay, so it's about time to update. I wish I had something earth-shattering to say, but I do at least have exciting news. Two things, actually, both of which are equally exciting. Ready ( Read more... ) -
YES!!!!!!!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! M.T. Anderson just won the National Book Award for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing! YESSS!!!!! There is NO ONE on earth who deserves that prize more than he does! Oh, man! I'm so excited! I feel like I just won :o)
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Awesome
Another request for a full manuscript today, this one from Susan van Metre of Amulet Books (Abrams Books for Young Readers). Sweet! It came to my home address, so my parents immediately scanned it and made it into a pdf and sent it to me with much fanfare and trumpets and congratulations. They're so wondercrump ( Read more... ) -
Yay!
One of the greatest ways to wake up ever ( Read more... ) -
When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons...
Yep, no Lemony Snicket. bessiemaemucho, genius that she is, checked the website at the last second and it said something funny about tickets that hadn't been there before. She called the bookshop and they told her that the Snicket appearance was a ticketed event and had been sold out for weeks ( Read more... ) -
Lemony Snicket: Shorter in person?
I have to finish packing and see if I can squeeze in writing another few hundred words before I'm off this afternoon with bessiemaemucho to Chicago to see Lemony Snicket tomorrow. Lemony Snicket! I'm excited; he's a huge celebrity. I expect him to be shorter in person. Seriously, though, along with Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Sid Fleischman, and Bruce ( Read more... ) -
Michael Stearns and M.T. Anderson: A love story
Thanks to Renata for teaching me how to do HTML.
Let's see if it works. Here's a few links to blogs that I read every day, because they're awesome (you can also find these links in smaller type in the left-hand column of this page):
Miss Snark. Miss Snark is an anonymous literary agent living in NYC, and her blog is hilarious regardless of ( Read more... )