Daily Archives: February 24, 2008
The Minor Detail People Often Miss
Posted on February 24, 2008 52 Comments
Michelle Sagara makes a very cogent observation here about a small detail people often miss when they use me as an example of how a blog can help you sell your novel, that small detail being that I had a Web site a decade before I sold that first novel, and had been accreting an […]
Movies and Books
Posted on February 24, 2008 7 Comments
A couple thoughts on things: * Oscars tonight, and on looking at my Oscar picks piece from the day the nominations came out, I think my picks are still pretty solid. A couple of additional thoughts, however: I’d say for Best Picture, No Country for Old Men looks more like a lock than it did […]
The Worst Presidents?
Posted on February 24, 2008 109 Comments
Athena is learning about the presidents these days, not through school, but via the Animaniacs, whose “President’s Song” she is memorizing much in the same way she memorized their “50 states and their capitals” song (clearly, Animaniacs are her Schoolhouse Rock). While she was running down the presidents in the songs, and because she is […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying