Interview with Melody Carlson, written 3 days ago, Melody Carlson has published over ninety books for adults, children, and teens, with sales totaling more than two million and many titles appearing on the ECPA Bestsellers List. Several of her books have been finalists for, and winners of, various w...

Caren Johnson Literary Agency blog.

Presque vu LXVII, written 1 day ago, Bud Parr has several reasons why we should boycott Amazon: "Unless I see something from Amazon proving that this is somehow justified (using strong-arm tactics to push up publishers' discounts) I hereby boycott Amazon.com and suggest you do too." * The ...

Robert Giroux: 1914-2008, written 13 hours ago, Lately we've had legendary editors on the mind, and with the passing of Robert Giroux--easily among the most legendary and talented of his time--I expect we won't be the only ones looking back in admiration at his phenomenal career. (In...

SPOILERS!!!! don't read the review if you want the whole book experience!!!!!!~~!, written 6 days ago,

Good riddance..., written 3 hours ago, Tweedledumb and Tweedlebully out the door

Win a Signed Copy of Matrimony, written 3 hours ago,

Two very opinionated bitches talk about books and bitch about other stuff too.

Four Things About the Sub-Mariner..., written 1 week ago, 1. I'm glad he's started appearing more often in the black pants with black open shirt outfit (pictured above), as opposed to the green trunks (see #3).2. The pronunciation of 'Sub-Mariner' as 'Sub-Mareener' in that awful Captain America movi...

"Blue and Gray Weekly", written 3 days ago, Today's mail brought a fat catalog for an upcoming Bloomsbury Auction. It is presented as The Bibliophile Sale and will he held in New York on September 17 - 18. There are 803 lots across all categories with the highlight being the Fred M. Meyer ...

Seth Greenland Nails It & Gets Me in Trouble, written 1 week ago, Seth Greenland, author of The Bones and the just-out Shining City, takes a stroll around the contradictory mess that is John McCain's brain as he weighs his VP pick options. I laughed out loud - very, very loud - several...

Notebook porn -- beyond the Moleskine, written 2 days ago, Stationery love: notebooks notebooks notebooks! And yet more at blackcover.net. (Via Scott.)

Literary Band, written 6 days ago, In my quest to do things I'd never done before, I did something that I thought I'd never do: sing in a band! Skylight Bookstore put together a band called "Skylight Juice." SJ would make their command performance at the opening of "1814," an ext...

Katie Schwartz?, written 20 hours ago, Once again it's time for keywords Katie Schwartz's blog is coming up on. God forbid my blog come up on my name Katie Schwartz, God forbid.Vintage Pussy - Again with the geriatric porn, oy.Big Vagina's - If we're talking about Coco's cavernous taco, sure. Otherw...

Inked?, written 1 day ago, A friend recently sent me a link to Contrariwise:Literary Tattoos, a site that displays photos individuals have sent in of their tattoos that are inspired by music and literature. I love this kind of thing and was pleased to see that Kurt Vonnegut is quite popular, along w...

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo, written 1 week ago, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye (2005) As fate would have it, I picked up and read Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo, the first in the Leven Thumps series. Foo is "the fantastic realm that allows mankind to hope, imagi...

Miss Mary's Valentine, written 4 days ago, ON AUCTION Miss Mary's Valentine And Other Stories 1895 First Edition Published By De Wolfe, Fiske & Company In The Publishers Original Hardbound Victorian Covers Lettered And Decorated Scroll Leaf Over A Maroon Cloth Spine And Gilt Framed Colour Pictor...

Now you see me, now you don't…, written 1 week ago, I am back from Mallorca, rested and with Vitamin D stores replenished. I seriously think I was suffering from SAD (seasonal affective disorder). I'm normally a fairly cheerful soul - everything is fine (until it isn't!) but I had started to feel ...

RAGE TONIGHT!!!, written 2 days ago, My mate Gilbert Whyte, musical genius, recorder of many great songs, now has a music video, recorded and put together by my brother, and starring (among others) my wife, and a bunch of animated creatures. It's on Rage tonight! Friday the 5th of September at 2am (...

[UPDATE] Automatic Help Bookmarks For Numerous Subjects, written 1 day ago, I revisited the new version of the auto-bookmarks Python script today. I adjusted the search to return the URL of the search result that had the most keywords from the query string in its title. Note that you only get four s...