Now, you may not know this, but I, together with New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost, are campaigning for Kate and Curran porn by book 4 of the Kate Daniels series, written by the fabulous Ilona Andrews.
Ilona’s looking for titles for book 3, which should be Magic ___________.
She said no to Magic Sex, so I guess she’ll just have to save that title for book 4, but in the meantime, we need Book 3, so head on over and give book 3 a name–there’s a prize!
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zornhau, Paul Krugman on the NYT Economics blog:
I’m startled at Brad DeLong’s ignorance: he thinks there’s something new about science fiction novels where the science in question is economics.
I’m honestly looking forward to the summer, because if nothing else, I’ll have to pick up on the economics blogs thing.
*eyes Google Reader mournfully*
I’m not usually one for short stories, but I love this one.
Janni Lee Simner’s Frog Princes
I can’t wait for her YA novel to be out next year, and in fact, I’m so excited about it, I’ve already asked to interview her when it comes out. 
Sharon Lee, one-half of the couple who writes the Liaden Universe books (I’ve only read the first one, but I like!):
For instance, I, the Writer, do not agree to:
1) never kill off a beloved character
2) always provide a H(appy) E(ver) A(fter) ending
3) always write the same book
4) always write the same kind of bookYou, the Reader, do not agree to:
#adore everything I write
#finish reading a book that doesn’t work for you
#buy a book in a genre you loathe, just because I wrote it
The rest of it is here.
I’ve nothing else to say except, “I agree! I agree! I agree!” Now back to the textbooks.
Via the amazing Janni Lee Simner: Men Who Explain Things.
* I’m linking to the original essay, not the shorter one in the LA Times.
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Read all about it here at RTB!
Sigh. I have to write another post soon. So many things to do!
To decipher this message, please clicky here.
PS If you actually like sociology, never ever show your face at this blog again.
PPS Maybe I should have titled it JSB at SFC, but I kinda didn’t want it to be too cryptic.
PPPS I shouldn’t be here, but my brain hurts.
Nope, I don’t know the guy, haven’t read him etc.
But it’s a really good interview. Thoughtful, and it’s long enough for you to read and find the interesting little details about a person.
Well, yesterday was RTB day, but there’s nothing new today–there will be tomorrow, I think, and it’ll sadly cost me my place of honor at the top of the page.
People seem rather defensive about the ebooks in general, and it goes beyond the format’s early life as a second-choice for publication. I do think that at some point, ebooks will become the one and only, but it may not happen even in my lifetime. But right now? In the near future? Not a chance.
They even ignored what I thought was the most interesting point in the post, except that I didn’t have time to do research to expand it into the main point.
*shrug*
Peeps, if nothing happens in the next few hours, you’re going to have a very thin edition of The Stalker to read.
Of course, if you have a deadline, that’s a good thing.
Or I could be reading all the wrong blogs.
Or I removed all the wrong blogs yesterday. It’s all Ferfe’s fault because she said:
Fear of missing that one lucid, potentially brilliant sentence keeps me from house cleaning feeds.
Everything that goes wrong on this blog probably has something to do with her or the Reeking Wallaby*.
* Just kidding. Really. I’m getting better already and don’t want to fall sick again.
97, to be exact.
Angie’s post spurred it on, though I originally planned to do it next month.
But you know, if I do it now, it means that I have more time to do other things now. Like sew and eat cookies–if you’re a stitching maniac, then not at the same time, but I’m not a stitching maniac.
I dropped about 50-60 blogs.
Before you start asking me why I’d a hundred and fifty blogs to read, a good portion of them are not romance blogs. A good portion have nothing to do with publishing, reading etc.
They are mostly part of my “I’m becoming an economist so I should read like one” program. I can tell you the only result of this program is that I have 75MB file worth of papers and such I’m supposed to read. Yes. 75MB. I’m not kidding.
I admit I occasionally toss all hundred-over posts (academics are most verbose) in the econs folder because my brain is too tired and the hundred posts make me want to cry–I did this most days during my exams.
Now I must attack my f-list. I haven’t yet decided whether to unfriend people, or create a reading filter. If I unfriend people, then I’ll add people who only have feeds on LJ to my RSS. *thinks*
I had 141 friends, cut down to 122. The thing is, I’ve a significant number of friends who have an LJ name, but don’t actually post on LJ. I figured I could keep them, since they don’t actually add to my reading on LJ. What to do…what to do…
On a different note, I think there’s a blog revamp coming up–and no, I’m not talking about how this blog looks, thought that could change.
Dear Meghan with a H,
Colleen Gleason is looking for you. Especially if you have a birthday coming up real soon.
See, she got drunk (I worry about her sometimes) when she was out with friends, and signed and personalized a copy of Rises The Night like this:
Meghan–Happy Birthday!!!
Unfortunately, she was supposed to write something else. *shakes head* She only had a few drinks…and she did something like that?
Colleen’s never going to get into the Richelle Mead School of Publishing and Writing (RMSPW for short). It’s very sad. I was looking forward to having a classmate–we would be the first class of the RMSPW to graduate. Just think. We would have been pioneers!
Rises The Night has got vamps, stakes and a kick-ass heroine. So Meghan with a H who Sucks Blud, please contact Colleen Gleason forthwith to get your copy and learn all about Venators and how to avoid getting Staked by them. 
Yours Sincerely, May
PS And if your 2007 birthday has passed, Meghan with a H, tell Colleen that you will have a 2008 birthday.
The Reeking Wallaby attacked me. *cries*
*sniffles* *but the sniffle is from the bug she was given to her by the Reeking Wallaby*
Her statement of intent can be found here.
*coughs*
I demand that the Insanity Posse track her down forthwith and keep her under house arrest in her Secret Garden, to prevent her from spreading her icky germs around the blogosphere. We still have time to stop an epidemic!
PS This is why there’s no TT today. Because I took the drugs and crashed. No writing either, for the second day in a row, damn it.
Haven’t slept all night. Not since the Zombie uprising woke me up.
If you don’t hear from me tomorrow, you’ll know what happened to me, because I am going to tell you now.
They will have eaten me up.
I have been hearing bones crunching all night. And screams and tearing flesh and lipsmacking sounds!
I could almost tolerate the first three…but the last…the last…
It’s horrifying to learn that there is something out there that thinks you are tasty.
I don’t want to be tasty! *wails*
*wail is suddenly cut short*
*bones go crunch-crunch*
As opposed to the long tail, let’s call it the “fat head” of Internet content.
And probably you too!
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
I check email to often. I check my RSS reader too often. And there are too many days when I never get anything done.
Now that I’ve done my good deed for the day, I’m going to go do the one thing I really have to do today.
Well, rebel really. There’s only one of me.
Anybody want to join, let me know. I don’t know how we will fight for our cause, but I’ll come up with something. In July. In the meantime, you guys can just run wild on the blog. I don’t mind–plus I’ll have something to blog about then.
And Edie Ramer will forever be evil because she started it. With friends like Edie, I don’t need enemies.
Amie Stuart’s interview will be up in less than two hours, and the contest clock starts ticking then. Signed books are involved…and naked body parts–on the cover of HANDS ON!
PS Jaymi of Fallen Angel Reviews is V. cool!
This is by no means an attack on all authors. I understand that in choosing not to name names, it could read as though I’m tarring a lot of you with the same brush. But this is certainly not the case. In my eighteen months of blogging, Author Without Real Fans is one author and the only author with whom I’ve had a bad experience.
Dear Author Without Real Fans,
I know I’m just a reader blogger.
I also know reviewers from established review sites etc liked your book. Raved about it, even. Would that I had been able to do the same without my conscience bugging me, I would have done so.
I even welcome your response to my review of your book, even if it was a negative response.
Likewise, I don’t have a problem if an author’s fans come by to tell me that they liked a book I hated. I quite understand that not everybody will have the same opinion of a book as me.
Except your “fans” weren’t quite your “fans.” It’s rather suspicious your “fans” have the same IP address as yourself, don’t you think?
Yours in disgust, May
I don’t, at the moment, intend to out this author because I don’t want to give her more free advertising.
Some of you know who I am talking about, and I’d appreciate it if you don’t mention her name in comments. This is my blog, my turf and I reserve the right to edit or delete comments that mention her and I will close the comments to this post if I feel there is a need to do so.
Amie and Raine are threatening me.
I don’t understand why. I only asked for a recipe for southern fried chicken. That’s all. It was Free For All Friday.
And I like fried chicken. Who doesn’t like fried chicken, you tell me? Well, except my youngest brother who doesn’t eat meat.
Geez…
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