December 2008
96 posts
Happily off the grid today doing some winter break family stuff. (Well, about 80% anyway.)
ME: let’s fire up Radio Paradise for the afternoon. ITUNES: nope, let’s play INXS’ greatest hits. ME: OK, you’re the boss. (thx @wilw)
So Laura made homemade pretzel bread yesterday and now it’s like Treasure of the Sierra Madre around here.
RT RichRennicks RT @AnkhMorporkTime “Group Starts Local Clacks Service Called “Howler” Allowing You to “howl” News at each Other via Short..
enjoyed Zingerman’s Hot Cocoa Cake for breakfast today, thanks to a very welcome surprise holiday delivery yesterday! It’s super tasty.
Oh, and it’s minus 7º out there.
And I want to state clearly that I checked on my remaining followers and all you guys that I really do care about are still there. Phew.
Not that I care hugely, but why did my followers count just dip by about 20 since yesterday? Was it something I said? Guys? Guys?
It’s a desperately needed Trader Joes run today. And if there’s anyone watching over us, the Choco-covered joe-joes will be mine!
heading off to the hardware store in search of, well, hardware - to fix my back door.
Just found out Candlewick is rushing the paperback of Knife of Never Letting Go onto their spring list. Hardcover of #2 is lined up for fall
It took longer than you would think, but my door is fixed and can now be opened AND closed. I feel so handy right now.
All I can say right now is this: thank god the Super Monkey Ball is no longer being played in the other room.
school is cancelled today, thanks to the “big” storm that came through last night.
again from the Big Picture: Chinese “stormtroopers” on Segways with teeny-tiny machine guns. Funny & scary futurism: http://is.gd/cpkh
one more from Big Picture: Large Hadron Collider Peril LOLcatz: “I CAN EETZ EVERYTHIN’?” http://is.gd/cplZ
I’m back on a conference call! Another sales meeting!
Another book giveaway today: Indie Publishing: How to Design & Produce Your Own Book from Princeton Architectural Press http://bit.ly/6CM2
I’ve got 6 copies of the aforementioned Indie Publishing book for the first 6 folks to DM me with the magic words “Indie Publishing”
copies of Indie Publishing to @KatMeyer and @norton_fiction! Anyone else?
I’d like to take this moment to thank Aimee Mann for her xmas album from last year. Still my favorite recent holiday music, I think.
Cool book from Princeton Architectural Press:...
Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book
Indie Publishing — Once referred to derisively as “vanity publishing,” self-published books are finally taking their place alongside more accepted indie categories such as music, film, and theater. Indie Publishing is a practical guide to creating and distributing printed books regardless of your background, skill...
Woohoo! It’s warming up now - up to 4º! (When I took my daughter to school, it was 1º out there!)
Holy WTF! Flight of the Conchords is back! Thank you @katmeyer! Thank you @AnnieR! Christmas has come early. http://is.gd/c74b
Oh boy. I’ll see you guys in a couple months. SimCity is out on the iPhone now.
but before I go to SimCity nirvana, a truly geeky & hilarious XKCD comic on flow charts: http://xkcd.com/518/
The Big Picture strikes again - that is one incredible photoblog. Today’s post is pt1 of the Year in Pictures. http://bit.ly/B8En
I’m so psyched. Got a galley today of “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies” coming from Quirk Books / Chronicle this spring: http://bit.ly/59uh
OK, first line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
back on the phone for another conference call…
Getting ready for the first of two sales conference phone calls today…
OK - first conference call is delayed and now I’m setting up appointments to fill the time…
awesome! guess who I’m following now? @uglydolls
booksellers: what are you hearing on this Candlewick book: The Knife of Never Letting Go - it’s darkly funny future SF for YA?
Here’s the link to the pub page: http://bit.ly/RqTO
Killer 1st sentence: “The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. About anything.”
It was a quiet sleeper on the fall list, but now its picking up some steam, and a store called me today with a school order for 30 copies.
RT @softskull: RT @luxlotus: Time Out NY calls THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER the #1 Best Book of the Year: http://tinyurl.com/5o9cgt
automatically archiving emails from retailers with “last minute sale” in the subject line. I’m done for now, thanks.
Good night, internets!
Is it wrong to be so giddy when I hear Katy Perry?
Now that I read the Shelf Awareness piece about Borders/Harper Studio, what amazes me is the approx 15% premium they’re getting for going NR
Geez. Every NY twitterer I follow just started blithering about the pretty snowflakes. Come on over and I’ll show ya’ some flippin’ snow.
at a loss for last-minute gifting? Check out Uncle Mark’s 2009 Gift Guide, a useful, downloadable, free PDF of advice: http://bit.ly/9paB
You would not believe the utter mundanity of the thing I’m working on right now. It’s barely publishing-related. But better than most email.
Heading to the kitchen to make a Potato Pumpkin Leek soup. And yes, biscuits.
We bought the 2-disc DVD of A Christmas Story today! So you know what we’ll be watching tonight. With a hot soup and a cold wine.
Personally, I’m trying hard to stay below the radar of shotgun twitterers like Garyvee. I doubt he’d add any substance to my daily dose.
What’s up with Times Reader? Why is it SO SLOW to pull down updates? Something inefficient is going on there.
we finally got around to seeing Bolt - a nice treat was the Jenny Lewis song smack in the center of the movie! Great sweet song from her.