Here?s what a I mean: It?s been, what? -- a month or more since I?ve blogged here. Due to, you know, a reasonable plethora of reasons/excuses: A really busy June, my main laptop crapping out on me (not a bad excuse, that last one actually), etc.But what happens, after you?re away from the blog for awhile, is that stuff you want to blog about tends to pile up. And then it becomes overwhelming -- my...

Well, yes.I haven?t blogged in awhile. I?ve been helping out with the LAYAs page, and can testify I indeed was at the Book Expo, performin? and such. It?s all due to be repeated at the ALA in Anaheim.I am talking about LAYApalooza.Going to the LAYA site will get you some good palooza coverage courtesy of Lisa Yee and Sally Nemeth (pictured above with Carol Tanzman, Amy Goldman Koss, Michael Reisman...

I Heart YA Episode 5: LAYAPALOOZA!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enbxbfo6d2oI have been on and off the road.I have been starting books.I have been trying to avoid solipsistic blogposts.And did you know the LAYAs have their own webpage? Well, they do. I offer the above video as proof. "For your approval," as Rod Serling used to say.Enjoy.Then "friend up" over at los LAYAs.More soon....

Well, this weekend is the LA Times Festival o? Books.I?ll be signing the new Danger Boy paperback at the Mysterious Galaxy booth (Space 614) at 5:00 on Saturday, the 26th. Stop by and say "howdy do."What?s that you say? You?ll be in Paso Robles that weekend, drinking Rhone wine, instead?No problem.Simply head north, the following week, and catch me at the San Jose Public Library on May Day: Rose Ga...

Chametz and Grafix So it?s almost Passover, where we?re supposed to get rid of the stuff that "binds" us to whatever?s keeping us, well, enslaved. Emotionally. Politically. Etc. Kind of an "interior" spring cleaning, to with the external ones. So -- may the week to come find you traveling lighter!And meanwhile, my own crack at the bat -- not a Pesach metaphor, but what the hey -- for "Nexus Graphic...