Are these available in Canada? Cause sometimes that is a way to get UK books before US publication without paying overseas shipping.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - Oct 17, 2011 5:47:14 pm PDT #16680 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kate P. - Oct 18, 2011 7:44:01 am PDT #16681 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
National Book Foundation takes one foot out of mouth and inserts the other one, asking the author mistakenly named as a National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist to withdraw [link].
It's really kind of shocking what jackasses they're proving to be. The original mistake was bad enough, but they have completely mishandled it. Poor Lauren Myracle.
Ginger - Oct 18, 2011 7:53:17 am PDT #16682 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm still baffled that people who deal in words seem to have transmitted important information by way of the telephone game.
Kate P. - Oct 18, 2011 7:55:35 am PDT #16683 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Supposedly they don't write anything down in order to keep the info from leaking, but really -- nobody mentioned the authors' names? Nobody doublechecked to make sure they had the right titles?
Ginger - Oct 18, 2011 7:59:38 am PDT #16684 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I trust they now understand that accidentally leaking the correct authors would be far preferable to officially announcing the wrong ones.
Also, they trust people they tell over the phone not to tell anyone, but they think those same people will forward an e-mail to the known world? Their brains appear to be missing.
Amy - Oct 18, 2011 1:39:50 pm PDT #16685 of 28282
Because books.
In better news, Myracle's book has a sales rank of #378 right now. And I just bought one, too.
Supposedly they don't write anything down in order to keep the info from leaking
They do know this is not, like, a presidential election, right? I mean, come on.
Amy - Oct 18, 2011 2:36:09 pm PDT #16686 of 28282
Because books.
Myracle talks to Vanity Fair. She's wonderful.
DavidS - Oct 18, 2011 2:59:51 pm PDT #16687 of 28282
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Myracle talks to Vanity Fair. She's wonderful.
Ha!
What are you working on next? Maybe something uncontroversial?
I’m working on the story of a satanic cannibal cult set amongst the Republican presidential candidates. Just kidding!
Strix - Oct 18, 2011 5:44:03 pm PDT #16688 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, I read that earlier today, and I was pretty impressed. The whole incident is highly unfortunate and badly played.
Dana - Oct 19, 2011 7:01:14 am PDT #16689 of 28282
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I sold a story to Daily Science Fiction!