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Stripped Book Readings

by | Feb 15, 2005 | pre-wp

I’ve been hunkered down meeting a deadline and being creative, so it’s been quiet around here. But I did run into Stripped Books over at Chase Sequence [via Morning Improv]. These comic strips appear on BookSlut regularly and offer a surreal, post-modern...

REALLY Late to the party on this one

by | Feb 2, 2005 | pre-wp

When I first started this blog I was concerned on the impact it’d have on my *real* writing, so I sought advice from the one writer who would definitely have a blog: William Gibson. When I arrived at his site, I found that he’d stopped blogging because it...

Darth Vader Reads the Bible

by | Feb 1, 2005 | pre-wp

I just received my copy of Canadian Bookseller Magazine, which has a few of my kids book reviews in it. While seeing my reviews in print is always fun, I was shocked to learn that Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, has released an audio book of the Bible. Now the...

Hammy Nibbles His Way onto Walk of Fame

by | Jan 31, 2005 | pre-wp

As a kid newly arrived to Canada from Northern Ireland one of the biggest changes for me to make was getting to know all the new TV shows (that’s a big job when your six.) One of the first shows I really bonded with was Tales of the Riverbank, starring Hammy...

Canada kids books not into seal-eating (or hugging)

by | Jan 30, 2005 | pre-wp

[via places for writers] Children’s writer Andri Snaer Magnason may be an award winning author in his home country of Iceland, but in Canada, his book The Story of the Blue Planet goes just too far: When Magnason recently presented a manuscript to a Canadian...