“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Extracurriculars
Am doing some writing for the fine people at Book Riot. Links below: Of all the hypothetical dinner parties in the world, I most want to see George Saunders and Louis Sachar interact at mine. -from There’s A Kids Book For That Age 23: I say exactly nothing to Maurice Sendak during a shared three-floor […]
The coolest thing I’ve seen an author do
The children’s section at the bookstore where I work is next to the events space; I am nearly always assigned to be near the children’s section, which means I am within at least earshot if not eye…shot? of nearly all of our author events. I’m not going to pretend to be blasé about this– it is […]
Reasons to be excited
I don’t know if this happens in other creative industries, but book people are forever asking each other for reasons to be excited. Anything exciting coming up? Are you working on anything exciting? What are you excited about? I get that last one all the time from Publishing People, and whether they genuinely want my […]