Basically all anyone in the office was talking about today was how to snag an ARC of Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger GamesAll the conversation was about when it would be available at BEA, and if it was ticketed, and who everyone knew who could get them a copy, and who was next to read it after that person. Whispered conversations all over ( Read more... )

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We're having a meet and greet for one of our authors tomorrow morning, and we are trying to economize, so instead of buying a couple fruit platters and pastry platters like we usually do, I was in charge of purchasing orange juice, cream cheese and bagels ( Read more... )

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Today is the last day of April, so I will share with you my favorite favorite poem. You have probably seen it here before, but if I can't read it enough times, then neither can you.

The Ivy Crownby William Carlos Williams ( Read more... )

A couple of PSAs for you:

I don't know how much of a different it will make, but I am willing to try anything to say Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (including compulsively watching and rewatching episodes on Fox.com.)

The EOnline Save One Show campaign has moved into the Game Changer round--five shows are left. So go and vote for Sarah ( Read more... )

As usual, John Scalzi says it best:

Observers of the science fiction field will note the Nebula Award for Best Novel was won this year by a YA book, that the Tiptree Award is co-shared by a YA novel, and that in the Hugo Best Novel category, two and a half of the books nominated are also YA (the “half” in this case being Zoe’s Tale, written to be ( Read more... )

First, sainfoin_fields wrote this ficlet for me. It is gorgeous and perfect and I adore it. And it made me hungry for more Weaverfic.

So then I found Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings.

Over the course of S2, I have grown increasingly fascinated with the Weavers. I <3 them so very much, and this fic is perfect and heartbreaking and I love it so much ( Read more... )

Today I got a cold call from someone who wasn't trying to hawk her manuscript and wasn't trying to convince me that she was an agent. She was actually a person with a legitimate request following the right channels. In fact, I was able to help her with what she needed and direct her to the proper party ( Read more... )

I've spent the day shaking my head at AmazonFail. Obviously because it is just wrong, but also because it just didn't make any sense to me. It just didn't make sense to me why Amazon--Amazon, of all places--would choose to do this. I know, homophobia never makes sense logically--but here even moreso ( Read more... )