Zombies!
Check it out. A zombie wedding cake! Do you like it? In terms of unconventional and nonconforming things like this, I believe that people fall into one of three camps:…
Water Street Books
I spent last night at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH, discussing Something Missing with enthusiastic readers. It’s a beautiful independent bookstore located along a quaint little street lined with…
Not all books should be recorded
Where the Wild Things Are - a book I have never read consists of only ten sentences - yet it is the second most popular audiobook in the iTunes Music…
Raven
I wrote about group descriptors in the animal world a while ago—words like a murder of crows and a pride of lions. I also proposed a few of my own,…
Ten-year-old genius
In the spirit of Connie Wanek’s "Radiator" and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow," I challenged my students to identify a topic that no poet has ever written about before.…
Old fashioned book burning
A Baptist Church in Canton, NC, is hosting a good old-fashioned "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of Satan's works, including all non-King James Bible versions, popular books by…
Death is not a deterrent
Whenever I speak about my book at a bookstore or library, I always encourage my audience members to begin writing. I tell them that anyone can write if they apply…
Out of print but still in demand
BookFinder.com tracks America's most sought-after out-of-print titles and updates their list annually. It’s an interesting list, usually populated by previously unheard-of books, but occasionally you find something interesting. This year’s…
Bad day
Not a bad day. I had a rotten day today. It began as one of those days when I only wanted to stay home and play with my eight-month-old daughter.…
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