NEWS FLASH
If someone doesn’t like your book and gives you a crappy review, it doesn’t make them a bully. Even if they resort to personal insult and load up on the snark. If an author responds to your review with comments of their own, they’re not a bully. Even if they resort to personal insult and […]
Authors Behaving Badly
“What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everythingon it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and […]
Enough Already
Earlier in the week I started working on today’s post, which was going to be about some of the anger and stupidity floating around between authors and reviewers, because it seems like there’s been, as Pink Floyd said, “A lot of it about”, especially in the last two weeks. And then I came downstairs this […]
Monday Musing
I knew something seemed familiar about Friday’s post. Not the feeling (although, sadly, that is too familiar a feeling). No, just now I found that I had given another post the title of ‘Ugh’ several months ago. Oops. Blogger continues to bug me. I have three people who’s blogs I just cannot follow. They just […]
Ugh
It’s amazing how a lack of sleep can feel like a hangover. Last night was One of Those Nights. You know how it is–you go to bed at a reasonable hour, maybe read for a little bit, talk to the spouse, and then you drift and float off to dreamland. And then you wake up. […]
First Loves Blogfest
Okay, this is a spur of the moment thing for me. I didn’t know about this until today, when everyone’s ‘First Loves’ started popping up in my feeder. Perfect, because the weekend passed too fast and I was left scrambling to pull together a topic. So, first, thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for hosting. And […]
Bye-Bye, Britannica
Big publishing news last week, which I’m sure you’ve all heard by now: Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer produce a printed edition. We do not have a set of in my house, thankfully. I say ‘thankfully’ only because we’ve moved so many times. Books are a bitch to move in general, and those things weigh […]
Stupidity
“Hey! What are you going to do when you hit one?” Years ago, when I worked in a visitors’ center in Central Park’s north end, a coworker looked out the window and saw three boys a hundred or so feet away. The boys were on the edge of the lake and they were throwing rocks. […]
Whammied
First off I apologize for the weirdness that was this blog last week. Thank you for your kind comments and your patience, I hope that won’t happen again. I can tell you this, March has become a month that is not enjoyed in this house in general. Over the last eight years March has brought […]
Taking a Break
This is probably the worst possible time to do this. The blog has been picking up steam. I’m getting more views, the followers are coming in (welcome to you all!), more comments. One of the most important things to do as a blogger is to be consistent. If you’re posting twice a week, post twice […]