I’ve spent the last few months writing a book! I’m very excited about it, but I’ll need some funding to make it a reality (to pay a designer and editor and to get the book printed). Want to help? Click here to check out my video and donate to The […]
“I’m a 34-year-old man with a house full of puppets,” Jason Segel said to me and a huge group of children’s booksellers at the BEA breakfast this morning, “so it occurred to me that I might feel at home in a room full of people who love children’s books.” Jason […]
This morning, I had breakfast with Neil Patrick Harris. Well, kind of. Really I sat in the back of a BEA conference room sipping coffee and eating a protein bar while Neil stood on stage talking about his new biography, but I’m counting it. Neil, unsurprisingly, was brilliant. And even […]
What’s better than a trip to New York? A trip to New York that includes author sightings, book nerdery, and lots of free books — so I’m packing my bags next week and leaving Alabama for BEA, the biggest book conference in the U.S. I’ve been to Book Expo […]
Inside sources are reporting that Facebook plans to throttle page views for businesses even more than they already do, effectively choking off any organic search your business (or blog, or possibly organization) page hopes to have. If you want page views, you’ll have to pay for them, the plan goes. […]
Regular readers of this blog are probably mad at me — and for good reason. We went on an unplanned hiatus for the past month: no posts went up, no books were reviewed, and no mention was made of where we went. Readers noticed and let us know through comments […]
Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American writer and scholar of religions. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, a Research Associate at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and a contributing editor for The Daily Beast. His latest book, Zealot, offers an alternative […]
I’ve had such a great time teaching the first two Pop-Up Workshops, and I’m excited that I’ve already had lots of inquiries about our next event. I’ll be back later this week with details about what went well in the January workshop, but I know some of you are itching […]
I’m the kind of person who makes ridiculous resolutions. (Like vowing to shop only at locally owned Alabama stores for a year and blogging about it. Or spending as little money as possible for three months and blogging about it. Or writing a novel in a month and blogging … […]
I have a big extended family, so whenever we’re all together for Christmas, we’ve developed a system for opening gifts: We all open one at the same time, then we take a moment to go around the room and share what we’ve just unwrapped. One year I was watching everyone […]
We love art and story in all its forms, and anyone who’s ever walked into Church Street to get a latte and heard Michael Jackson followed by Shovels & Rope followed by Ray Charles knows that our taste in music ranges far and wide. We’re so happy when musicians […]