Man, all kinds of children's lit greatness this weekend on NPR -- Lois Lowery on the Willoughby's, a new award named for Roald Dahl...

(The little glowing orb is a Kim & Jason floating mood light I won in one of their fabulous Thursday giveaways.) This isn't a great...

Seventy years of writing comes down to basically a screaming fight . That's really sad.

I have owed you all this, since you put up with my very grouchy winter mood and drippy winter poetry. We whinge a lot about the weather in ...

I'm a little worried about this, but I think I'm going to have to post re-run Toon Thursdays for the next two weeks, because I'l...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Kelly and Anne! And the Cybils, of course.

Via Mitali's Fire Escape , a Carnival of YA lit -- portraying people of color in SF/F . Some really interesting reading to be had here, ...

Winning awards for The Most Hilarious Way To Begin A Monday comes a tale from 94-year-old Betty Jenkins' girlhood. A bra. A plane. A rea...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming now for a teensy, tiny, microscopic rant. I would have thought that people would know that...

This week has gone by in a blur. I'm clawing my way out of a major sleep deficit brought on by too many people to see and too many thing...

Since I've been pretty well stuck in a king-sized vat of fiction writing nonproductivity, I bring you this cartoon. Apparently I like to...

One of the nicest things that happened to me when I was home was totally and thoroughly unexpected. At the Model Bakery in St. Helena, I ran...

And a happy cool, gray and wet summer day to you! Catching up on my daily routine, I read the Jon Carroll's recent article in the SF Chr...

BERKELEY'S CODY'S BOOKS CLOSES AFTER 52 YEARS Berkeley CA, June 20, 2008 – After 52 years, Cody's Books will shut its doors effe...

...so are the days of my alleged "vacation." ((Hat tip to Bogenfreud for the hourglass picture.) *sigh* I've already semi-wh...

No, I haven't disappeared, nor have I quit the toon business, but I've been extraordinarily busy this week with unexpected last-minu...

I'm sorry, but sarcasm seems to be an integral element of my personality. If you haven't been following the fabulous (IMHO) new blog...

A frog princess instead of a frog prince—now that's refreshing. An ancient dragon that lives in an American river, called up by the lon...

There should be a sonic boom (or an ultrasonic tango?) around Berkeley sometime today as A. Fortis and I get together and exchange a ton of ...

Opened up my email this morning, and the first thing I saw was a celebratory note from Jama at Alphabet Soup, whose soup of the day made me...