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Archive for May, 2008

2nd Annual Kidlitosphere Conference!

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Dudes, it’s time. Cast your thoughts toward September, and picture yourselves in Portland, OR, hanging with the very people whose blogs you spend way too much time visiting each and every day. Actual face time! Actual actual conversations! Unbelievable, but I’m here to tell you it really happens!
Check out the details […]

Once again Oprah copies me

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Why can’t she just live her own life? Why does she always have to copy me?
See, what you don’t know is that while I’ve been away, I’ve finally and fully committed to being vegan. That means no meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish–no animal products of any kind (yesterday I even cleared […]

Why I love HipWriterMama

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Let me just tell you right now that a great interview depends on the great interviewER. Not the EE. I can blah, blah, blah all day, but it takes some great questions to get me to focus my babble.
And Hip Writer Mama asked some great questions! You can check our our interview […]

And the winners are . . .

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

To be really, really, super fair, I wrote all your numbers out on slips of paper (leaving out the duplicate comment and my own comment), and then did a random drawing for five names.
And the winners are:
RUBY DIAMOND!
KIMMY!
BECKY!
KATHERINE!
SANDRA!
Would all of you winners be so kind as to send me your addresses? Just click on […]

Twilight anthology giveaway!

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Hi! Remember me?
Look, I know we all like free stuff–for many of us the best concepts in the world are love, compassion, and swag–but this particular giveaway is going to appeal only to the true fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
Here it is:

It’s the “completely unauthorized” anthology of essays by various young adult authors […]