Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

I think this is me.
I might still do a little here and there, but as with most things in my life, the pendulum has now swung from one extreme (Twitter all the time!) to another (never Twitter again!), and now I hope to find myself somewhere in the middle.
Twitter out.

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You can read today’s confession–I mean helpful, instructional post–over at The Debutante Ball. Please feel free to make a confession of your own. I promise it will never leave the Internets.
Ooh, and check out this article about why Google wants you to self-Google. Conspiracy! (Thanks, Barry, for the link.)

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A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch
P.S. Who’s the second person in that video? He is super cute!
[UPDATE:] I hadn’t seen the original video that this lampoons. Here it is, with some Stephen Colbert thrown in for dessert!

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The Colbert Coalition’s Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

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Wow. Just wow. Read it.

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I should be sleeping right now because I barely have in the past 48 hours, but I’m too wired because I had such a great time at the Michigan Library Association Spring Institute last night! Hurray! I was up there because they had chosen Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature as [...]

I’ll confess that I’d been warned about the school: shootings, stabbings, every few weeks another story in the local Rochester newspaper about how violent the place was. And here I was on my way there, ready to give a talk to a group of students, not really knowing what to expect.
The guard at [...]

Thank heavens for Adrienne and Eisha. Because they were at the Rochester Teen Book Festival last weekend, and actually had the strength to write a post about it. Which I’m totally stealing now.
Or look at this one, which includes a clip of Wordgirl, with my new pal Jack Ferraiolo doing the [...]

Here’s today’s math question: How much extra sleep does it take to make up for five nights of extreme sleep deprivation? Show your work.

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See if you can relate to this.
There are times when you feel like you’re being filmed, or photographed, or if you’re somehow living out your own make believe of playing with paper dolls or army men. Suddenly there’s a moment where you realize you’ve stepped past the fantasy, and right that second you are [...]