The family is all on their way home and the house is quiet (or as quiet as it gets with a five-year old). Here's what I missed from last week:
The Notable Stories for 2006 have been posted for Story South's Million Writers Award and "Mercy Flight" is one of them. Take a look at the list and see all the awesome short fiction that has found its way online in the past year.
Ed provides a nice overview of the LA Times story and how my quote somehow got attributed to him by mistake. (Corrections will be posted, etc.) What I'm still wondering about all this is why in all the blog vs newspapers articles that run no one ever seems to mention the LBC, or The Edge of the Forest or Bookslut's monthly magazine. It seems to be mostly a conversation peppered with comments about writers who must do not wish to "resign myself to reading reviews primarily on a cold computer screen" or the fear factor postings as in " I'm appalled that the review pages are being cut. It means that books are no longer to be taken seriously.". Just for the record, I am officially sick to death of all this foolishness about newspaper reviews being the best thing on the planet when it comes to books and the ONLY THING THAT WILL KEEP AMERICA LITERATE!
I love books and I write about them and I'm avoiding the NBCC blog like the plague these days. Who are they posting these entries for anymore other than the people that already agree with them?
Meanwhile, in much better reading, Gwenda feels like the slowest writer in the world (oh man - can I ever compete with her for that award!); TadMack seems to be stuck in a two chapter time warp (or is it an alternate universe? I've been there a lot myself); and Jenny D. shows us all how a travel entry should be written. I am so getting that Dodie Smith book asap.
If you want to see a picture of me (first one ever online!), head over to the Seven Imps tomorrow morning. I'm being interviewed on all sorts of interesting subjects, both literary and otherwise.
May 13
2007
02:57 AM
I went to the Seven Imps website and see only a picture of a very cute infant. If you are really that young, well -- I was impressed with your writing before, but I had no idea how precocious you were!