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Thanks for the invitation to write a piece for your blog. I think I understand the concept; to be pithy, skillfully to work in what a great novel I’ve just published, and then to leave the subtle impression that I’m somehow cool. Or really cool.
Over Christmas, I brought home a copy of Neil Gaiman’s Odd & the Frost Giants to read with my niece, Mary Olivia, who is in 2nd grade. I’d actually planned on reading The Lightning Thief with her, because I got her that as part of her Christmas present, but then I picked up Odd from work and decided to borrow it.
As I mentioned yesterday, this week will be full of Fairy Tale goodies. Today I have an interview up at One Librarian’s Book Reviews, and now here is my interview with Melissa!
Like I said in my review of Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman, I sort of want to be Hannah’s best friend and sort of hate her*. Both of these things made me curious about her, so I e-mailed her and asked her to answer some things for me. Of course, I left out two really important questions. 1. How does she feel about her first name being an anagram and 2. who wrote her wikipedia entry?
Look! I’m all around the interwebosphere (as a certain blogger might say) this week! Yay for me!
I am guest blogging on Literary Escapism today. My post commemorates the 2 year anniversary of my favorite fantasy writer, Robert Jordan, and why I no longer read series until they are completed.
If I didn’t have my blog, I would never have joined Galleysmith’s Literary Road Trip. And if I didn’t join the Literary Road Trip, I probably would never have e-mailed Heather Barbieri to ask her all about Seattle, and the references she made to our Emerald City in her novel, The Lace Makers of Glenmara, and then you would not be reading this, dying to go to Seattle, where people apparently break out in dance all the time.
“Oh, my God… I’m sooo old!” The catch-phrase of my life. One I’ve been uttering for as long as I can remember. (“I can’t believe I’m going to be fourteen!”) With each passing year, I keep reminding myself: I’m the oldest I’ve ever been. Someday, I’ll look back on the age I am now, and think, “I was sooo young then!” Ah, the vicious cycle…