Northwest Bookfest
If you’re in the Seattle metro area and you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, come to the Northwest Bookfest in Kirkland! There will be tons of panels and readers and writers and people who love books, and it’s FREE. I’ll be on a panel at 11 am on Sunday at the Kirkland [...]
College/life
So Monkey Knife Fight School is taking all the eighth-graders on a field trip to the local four-year university in an attempt to nudge kids from our blue-collar neighborhood toward post-secondary education. I am all for this, but the Boy is as unimpressed as you’d expect a kid to be whose first visit to a [...]
An encounter with the Boy
An encounter with the Boy, culled from between the cracks of his first day of eighth grade: Boy: Will you sign this? Me: Sure, what is it? Boy: Some form. Mrs. Language Arts Teacher wants to “get to know” us. Lame. So I skim it. It’s your garden-variety first-day questionnaire. Favorite book, favorite band, that [...]
What did the Boy trip over today on his way to school?
Why yes, they are print ARCs. And yes, they are lovely. And yes, I’m squeeing too much to be of any use at all at the Day Job. And that blurb? The one that’s too small to read from this distance? That’s Karen Cushman. Karen. Cushman. Blurbed The Wicked and the Just. “Thrilled” does not [...]
A new arrival at Chez J
So I’m joining the twenty-first century as of today – I’m the proud owner of a laptop that actually connects to the internet. I’m a little torn. I’ve had my old laptop, Little Shiny, since 2001. I wrote six novels and two million words on her. The grip on the space bar has work down [...]