Gorgeous Paper Sculptures Pop Up Around Edinburgh
@Edencityoflit’s gorgeous paper sculpture, via Anna @ Anna-Not-Karenina For those who didn’t catch it on GalleyCat or in The Guardian, a remarkable, new-slash-mixed-media artist has been leaving some rather stunning paper sculptures at libraries and other cultural institutions around Scotland. The sculptures–usually addressed to the recipient’s Twitter account–are astonishing, tiny marvels of fantastic bookishness. It is particularly dorky, I know, but this...
Read MoreB&N Doesn’t Carry Catcher in the Rye? Not All The Time
While pulling covers for another post on Friday night, I tried to grab a cover for the Salinger classic Catcher in the Rye on barnesandnoble.com. And here’s the result (image composited from two screen caps): At 11:46: Did the back to school rush wipe out B&N’s stock? Or is it just inventory error? And since when are the Eragon series, James Patterson, and Stephen King shelved next to Catcher? Strangely enough, a second search revealed a more reassuring result: At...
Read MoreReading: What Makes a Book Unsatisfying?
This post was first published in March 2010, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. As I wind up the first draft of a new project–I’m in that mad, almost love-drunk rush that comes with knowing the end is nigh–I keep drifting back to these three questions: 1. Can I wrap this up without leaving a tangled mess of loose ends? 2. Have I revealed enough for the end to work, or is it just a poorly fashioned deus ex machina? 3. Am I forcing my leads into roles they...
Read MoreMonday Book News: 3 Links For Your Morning Coffee Break (6/20/11)
Good morning, book people! After slogging through a lot of freelance work, I’m easing back into the world of my own blog, but it’s a slow process. But with a little luck, I’ll settle back into the usual routine soon. Some longer thoughts this morning, so fewer links. ETA: Also, as you can see, I’m transitioning site design again. Unfortunately, there are always small bugs installing a new theme on an older site, so it may be a while before everything’s quite...
Read MoreCover Notes: Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannet
Cover Notes is a new series I’ll be running every Monday. Rather than focusing on covers of books I’ve read, I’ll be writing about books I’ve never read and recording my first impressions of their covers. Each book will also have an Embarrassment Factor of between zero & five, with zero meaning “a totally awesome cover I want to write fan mail about” and five meaning “I’m ashamed to be seen with this in public.” Today’s Cover Notes post is a little...
Read MoreYA Author Charlie Higson On The Differences Between Writing For Kids, Teens, & Adults
From The Guardian: Author Charlie Higson reads from his book The Dead, and answers questions from readers. How did he start writing for children? What are the differences between writing for adults and for younger people? Higson is the author of The Enemy, The Dead: An Enemy Novel, several Young Bond novels, and...
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