Going to the Movies

In The Name of the King
Okay, I know this is probably going to be a train wreck of a movie, but I’m going to see it anyway. It’s got a head-scratching cast combination Jason Statham, Will Sanderson, Burt Reynolds, and Kristianna Lokken and a plot you could drive a tank through, but I don’t [...]

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I Want One

Santy Claus, I was really really good. I behaved politely in public, didn’t have meltdowns in the blogosphere, and generally behaved like writing is my business and I am a business person. So why didn’t I get rewarded with one of these?????

Though I think my Sven would start the [...]

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Last One Standing

Hhm, I was pulling for Rajko or Brad.
Rajko has a website you can check out here.
Yummy.
Though I have to admit, I wouldn’t eat testicle soup either, at least not the testicle portion.

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Happy Birthday, Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday.  At the bash, he said he had three wishes: a commitment to renewable resources, peace in Sri Lanka, his adopted home, and evidence of extraterrestrials.
But I really liked this quote:
“Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered,” Clarke said. “I have had a [...]

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Alice Walker’s archives going to Emory

Local gal (she’s from GA) does good.  From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
From journals and notebooks of poetry written when she was growing up in Eatonton, Ga., to drafts of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color Purple,” Alice Walker saved every scrap along her journey to becoming one of the leading literary figures of the 20th Century.
Her [...]

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10 Questions for Nora Roberts

Time Magazine did an article wherein readers from around the world asked questions of best-selling author Nora Roberts.  Whether you read her or not, like her or not, she’s considered the spokesperson when it comes to romance novels.  It’s got to be a heavy load all the time at times, but she sure carries it [...]

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Race in Romance: Affaire de Coeur

The Romance Slam Jam is roughly five months from now. I’m really looking forward to it, not the least because I get to return to Chicago for their hot dogs and pizza, but because I get to see the largest gathering of black romance readers and writers on the planet. If you want [...]

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Essence to Honor Writers, Help Libraries

From Publisher’s Weekly:
Essence Magazine will honor African-American writers and help public libraries by launching two overlapping initiatives this winter: the Essence Literary Awards and the Save Our Libraries campaign.
The nominees for the awards–in fiction, nonfiction, children’s, poetry, commentary/public affairs, memoir and photography–will be selected by the editors of Essence and will be announced on December [...]

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When Your Characters are No Longer Yours

In an effort to answer the question of “When does a character stop being the property of its creator?” or “How popular does it have to be to become Fair Use?” Stanford’s Law school will defend the publisher of the Harry Potter Lexicon against Warner Brothers and author JK Rowling.
According to the press release:
RDR Books [...]

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