March 2012
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March 29, 2012; New York – If you’re a blogger who loves books, that passion might get you far: all the way to New York and the…
That terrifying feeling when you are finishing a book and THERE AREN'T ENOUGH PAGES LEFT FOR ALL OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.
This happens TOO often. Sigh.
Subverting Your Writing →
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How to manipulate tropes to create something richer, using Sansa as illustration.
Hey, You Know Who That Looks Like? →
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Is that Liv Tyler on the cover of Shut Out? How did Richelle Mead get Angelina Jolie on Vampire Academy? Kirsten Hubbard looks at lookalike covers.
The Giveaway of Many 4s! →
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4 Insurgent ARCs + 4 Divergent Paperbacks = 4 Winners on April 4th. Yes, that’s right, 4 + 4 = 4. I don’t care what your math teacher told you.
Harry Potter's fourth child was called "Dobby Hedwig" and his fifth was called "George's Ear"
“I’m trying to figure out how insulated one has to be from the wider world to be shocked! shocked! that racism is pervasive in American culture, and among American teens. Those wide-eyed tweets about Rue’s death being less sad because she’s black clearly come straight from the brains of adolescents (nearly all of them white, presumably) who have bathed in subtly and overtly racist culture since birth, absorbed far too much of it, and not yet learned to second-guess or even censor themselves when they parrot its tenets. They’re surprising only if you haven’t noticed that when real people of color are killed, there’s always an immediate attempt to justify or downplay the deaths. Art imitates life; reactions to art likewise imitate life.”
—An article at Publisher’s Weekly on fans’ racist reactions to learning that Rue is black. The article also gives a shout-out to Racebending.com (via racebending)