In the last year or so, I’ve gotten an increasing number of blurb requests for books that are not yet sold to a publisher. They’re “done,” in that the author has completed a draft of some iteration, and gotten an agent with that draft. But the book ain’t really done. No editor has likely touched […]
Hey, so if you follow me on Twitter, you might know that sometimes I tweet inane, absurd, “motivational” (air-quotes probably necessary) tweets every morning. (Similar to Lin-Manuel’s, though obviously his are far less, um, weird than mine are.) Aaaaaanyway, long story short, there’s this: NYT bestseller Chuck Wendig’s YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON, an illustrated collection of […]
It is no surprise that I like apples. I mean, I suppose this could be new information for you, if you’ve been living in some kind of subterranean grotto. So, if you have just emerged from your lightless earth womb, let it be said again: I am a big damn fan of apples. Not the phone […]
I’m honestly full of light and love and bees about how much people seem to be enjoying WANDERERS — I don’t know that I’ve ever gotten as many emails and tweets and such about any other book, the Aftermath series included. It’s heartening and wonderful and so it’s especially cool to make the Locus Reading […]
HEY GUESS WHAT. Maureen Johnson has a new book out — The Hand On The Wall! — and she’s going to be at Barnes & Noble in Oxford Valley, PA this Sunday, at 2pm. Who will also be there? Why, it’ll be me! We’ll talk about crime and mystery and books and Twitter and she […]
It is I, known applefluencer, Churk Wigdog, back again to bring you another round of vital rankings of grocery store apples. (You can find Part One, from last year, here.) It is further known that my favorite apples are of course heirloom apples. They are weird. They are curious. They are oddities. And they are routinely some of the […]