1. FIRST NAME? Barry.

2. ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My mom always said I was named after someone in the family named Benjamin. How you get to Barry from Benjamin I'll never know.

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? When I learned our new house needed a new roof. *whimper*

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Yea, I do...hey, I can read it, whatl else matters?

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I think I forgot to do my summer book post, so before summer's totally over, here it is!


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*deep breath*

Since ALA in New Orleans, I have (a) moved into our new house, (b) mostly unpacked, (c) moved my office into said house, (d) suffered many of the horrors of new homeownership (plumbing and electrical problems, and, most recently, the need for a new roof *sigh*), (e) held my 4th annual client retreat (where a fab time was had by all ( Read more... )

Enough already, people! I get it, I get it! You want me to update. Sheesh, I had no idea how much pressure this was going to involve.

I don't quite know what this journal is for. I got into it as a lark, primarily to read many of my other clients' LJs. I didn't initially think I'd post much, and I didn't. Then I got into the whole question of ( Read more... )

Went to bed last night still unsure, but found out this morning that the brilliant Holly Black (aka
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That sound you just heard was the gasp of air I just took as I finally have caught up on Bologna follow-up, as well as all the stuff that didn't get done while I was there. Sheesh, sometimes a week out of the office is just plain brutal. I often wonder why, too, especially during Bologna, when more than 80% of the people I work with are there with ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again, one of the highlights of my job. I'm off to the Bologna Children's Book Fair tomorrow. I've got meetings scheduled with about 60 editors/publishers/subagents from around the world, where I'll do my best to convince each and every one of them that they should buy translation rights to my wonderful clients' titles. By ( Read more... )

I realized the other day that I hadn't done a spring book announcement yet, which was rather silly of me. I typed one up and was ready to post it when I stopped and thought it looked darn boring, just a list of titles and all. After a few days of tinkering, and the help of
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Was rather stunned this weekend to hear of the sudden death of Octavia Butler. Many people reading this blog may be unfamiliar with her brilliant work, and if that's the case, go right now to a bookstore or library and read something, anything (Parable of the Sower is probably my personal favorite). If you want to know more about her and see the ( Read more... )

Wow, umm, where did January go? And half of February already? Sheesh. I knew buying a house and selling our apartment would be time consuming, and work certainly hasn't let up at all (which is a Good Thing), and then there was the Great Blizzard of '06, but seriously, someone's set the Wayback Machine on fast-forward or something.

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