miscellany
salem in october
We went to the Salem Haunted Happenings Grand Parade tonight. Most of my photos are blurry, but some of them are fun anyway. I think the best part was likely the East Beverly All-Star
writing
thoughts on nanowrimo for 2010
This is, most likely, going to be the first time in eight years that I won’t be participating in National Novel Writing Month. I might decide to be insane and do it anyway, because
flax-golden
flax-golden tales: songs & sugar
songs & sugar She was a musician. He was a baker. She spoke in notes and rhythm and tone. He expressed himself in carefully measured flour and clouds of buttercream. Everyone said they wouldn’t
books
a slightly belated happy banned books week
I was thinking of doing a post for Banned Books Week, even though a billion other people have said smarter, wiser things about book banning than I could ever manage. I was only going
miscellany
regularly scheduled kittens
There’s been far too much book excitement around here, and not enough of what is truly the heart of this blog: the kittens. So, here are the fluffmonsters in their natural habitat, cardboard boxes.
writing
so what’s the book about?
I’ve had a lot of people ask me what the book is about. I rather like the very long sentence that Publisher’s Marketplace used in the deal announcement: Erin Morgenstern’s THE NIGHT CIRCUS, set