So I’m planning to head to the Great Gray North a bit early tomorrow to avoid the nasty nasty clusterfuckage that is Seattle Metro Area rush hour traffic, and I’m planning to be at the Barnes and Noble by around 3 or 4 p.m.—which means I have 3 hours to kill. Any suggestions for interesting things I can do there? Please note that I am a) very easily amused, and b) sitting on my ass … Continue reading Pre-Bitch hangouts for the Tukwila reading tomorrow and the Boise reading on Friday?→
Check it out, motherfuckers: I talk at length about the romance ghetto, why it’s a ghetto, how I got there and why I love it, and Sarah and I tackle disdain for romance novels and give recommendations. (Side note: that first sentence for the Ghetto article? Should read “Welcome to the romance ghetto.” Gahhhhhhhhhh I hate it when I omit words that way and don’t catch it.) Anyway, we are on the Powell’s Book Blog, … Continue reading Smart Bitches on the Powell’s Interblag!→
Last night’s reading at Powell’s was my first public reading of any sort, barring the Bad Poetry Contests I used to help organize back at the University of Portland, and it couldn’t have gone any better—not even if a horde of My Little Ponies had descended from the heavens and pooped rainbows all over the crowd. The introduction included a warning about blue language and a recommendation that anybody within hearing distance who might be … Continue reading A recap of the Powell’s Reading→
Dudes: Powell’s in Beaverton. Today. 7 p.m. Be there, or be bereft of titty of the man variety. I’m going to bring my camera and hopefully have somebody record part of the reading. ohjesusi’mgoingtoholdabookreadingatpowellsahhhhhhhhhhhh
So Sarah and I, we’re separated by a whole continent, which is a tragedy and a travesty (tragesty? Travedy? Why do I like stupid portmanteaus so much?). Not only are we unable to hang out in person, we’re unable to make joint appearances at bookstore tours—in fact, the only time we’ll be able to do a signing in person together will be at the RWA National Conference this year. But lo! Not all is darkness … Continue reading Beyond Heaving Bosoms Blog Tour 2009: Drunk Writer Talk→
Update MOAR THEORIES! Some douchebag on Livejournal is taking credit for the brouhaha, but I’m incredibly skeptical over his claims, because it sounds a little bit too pat and because not only “fag books” were affected (among other things—my bullshit alarm went WOOP WOOP WOOP when I read that post); somebody else tried the exploit and it doesn’t seem to work in the way the douchebag claims. And now, via Lilith Saintcrow, the Seattle Post … Continue reading Amazonfail update, now with delicious speculative theories→
1. This is just to say I have uploaded an outtake that was cut from the book and which I had been saving as an extra. Forgive me It was delicious so sweet but too long 2. Also! For all you Portland-area bitches, I’m going to be at POWELL’S MOTHERFUCKING BOOKS in Beaverton next Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m.. The squeals of joy and holy shit, they verily did ring throughout the land when … Continue reading Three book-related things:→
If you’re in need of a good Not Work Safe laugh, check this out, courtesy of the fine folks at Weeping Cock: weird sex cries in bondage porn. Seriously, you’ll laugh till you cry. IN ECSTASY. And possibly yodel out “Blinxxnorgle!” while you do. After reading that, I demand more. MOAR. Post your favorite weird sex cry in the comments—something you’ve read, heard, or hell, even said yourself. My favorite, that I’d read in a … Continue reading Strange sex cries→
I didn’t pay much attention to the release of the Kindle 2 until I got wind that many people—especially the Author’s Guild—are up in arms over its Text to Speech capability. Words are being slung into the aether, words like “derivative works” and “royalties.” And then I read Roy Blount, Jr.‘s NYT op-ed piece, “Kindle Swindle”, and boy howdy, that thing just needs to be torn into. First of all, some background information for those … Continue reading Kindle Swindle, Schmindle→
A friend of mine (who is, I shit you not, an itinerant puppeteer by profession) came up with a fantastic idea: writing dirty limericks about the many, many ridiculous town names in Washington. And dude doesn’t fuck around. The limericks are DIRTY. Also totally awesome. So, given the caveat that this isn’t even remotely work-safe (unless your work is OK with you reading poetry about itchy crotches, and hey, some of them may be *waves … Continue reading Gitcher Dirty Limericks Here→
In tribute of our Fourth Anniversary, I decided to 1) come out of the Law School Cave, and 2) hunt down the finest representatives of our favorite targets of Cover Snarks Past. I searched far and wide (by which I totally mean: I trawled the Avon backlist and the Changeling Press website), and came up with some pretty excellent examples of Historical Titty, Indian Titty, Harlequin Titty and Poser Titty. Please enjoy! Candy: Wolf Shadow’s … Continue reading Covers Gone Fourth Anniversary→
