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A live performance at the INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Washington
A Prairie Home Companion's Radio Romance tour hits the road coast-to-coast this summer, starring host and writer Garrison Keillor, singer Aoife O'Donovan, comedian Fred Newman, and Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with guitarist Pat Donohue and violinist/mandolinist Richard Kriehn, two hours of duet singing, absurd improv with sound effects, Guy Noir Private Eye, poetry, outright foolishness, and the News from Lake Wobegon.
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Select one of the following companies or brands that have become well known in their industry or niche: Netflix, Google, Kleenex, Q-tips, Coke, Honda, Disney, McDonalds, or Verizon.
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Write a 1,050 word paper in which you address the following points:
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- The role brand image plays in the advertising of a particular company's product or service
- How this image compares to a competitor's image in the same industry
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Later this month, ESPN is launching ESPNFrontRow.com, a sports media blog that will focus on issues and stories related to the company.
Former ESPN.com NFL editor Sheldon Spencer will serve as the primary writer and editor of the blog when it launches on March 30.
ESPNFrontRow.com will provide consumers with a behind-the-scenes look at how ESPN operates and address controversies that involve the network (ie: The news you read about on the blogs about ESPN).
The new blog, which is being operated by the Public Relations department, won't compete with The Poynter Institute's new role as ESPN's ombudsman.
Spencer will post three times per day during the week with certain ESPN executives (Vince Doria, Norby Williamson) filing posts that pertain to them or their department.
We're not looking to replace the media that's covering us," said Mike Soltys, ESPN's vice president of communications. "We still will make our executives available to media covering various stories."


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Scotland's health gap is most dramatically illustrated by the 18-year difference in life expectancy, without a disabling illness, between people in the most deprived areas and those in the wealthiest.
It has long been recognised that improvement requires extra resources to be directed where need is greatest. However, a £2 billion investment over three years has yet to make a significant difference. This is a complex problem because social factors including employment, housing conditions, education and family structure all contribute to physical health and mental wellbeing. The NHS cannot be expected to tackle these underlying causes but, in allocating money to improve health in areas of severe deprivation, it should expect to see some results.
A critical report published today by Audit Scotland provides a timely reminder that a clear focus is necessary if improvement is to be achieved.
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Health improvement is difficult to measure. The diseases and conditions associated with poor lifestyles take time to develop so recent schemes may not produce measurable positive results for a number of years. The formula for allocating funding to health boards contains an element for deprivation but, unless the additional amount is spent on services in those areas, it will do nothing to reduce inequality. At present it is not known how health boards channel this funding to areas of greatest need. However, the distribution of primary care services, including GP surgeries, across Scotland, does not show increased resources in areas with high levels of ill health. A change in payments to GPs so that medical practices in deprived areas receive additional resources would be a practical approach. Other health care professionals, such as community nurses and physiotherapists, have a vital role to play in improving health care for people with chronic conditions and should be part of the practice team.
Community planning partnerships have been set up to match service with need, but the findings suggests there is a communications gap between the NHS and local authorities in some areas. The benefits of closer working between staff from the NHS, social work and education are obvious, especially in relation to pre-school children and the elderly. Providing a wider range of services, such as social work, from community health centres could make it easier for people to gain access to the help they need.
Easier access would also be likely to increase the low uptake of universal services such as eye tests and cancer screening in deprived areas. Holding screening sessions in health centres or leasing premises to opticians, dentists and pharmacists might also begin to change attitudes.
The NHS in Scotland has recognised that some people face significant hurdles in taking responsibility for their health through lack of resources or access to services. That amounts to a diagnosis of the problem. It is clear from the Audit Scotland report that a new focus on effective treatment is urgently required.


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PARAMOUNT (CNS) – A man who was shot in front of an apartment complex in Paramount has died, authorities said today.
The shooting occurred in the 7200 block of Petrol Street at 10 p.m. Friday, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. M. Nagaoka said.
He was hit multiple times in the chest and later pronounced dead at a hospital, the sergeant said.
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From the official site:
Favourites:Bobby Mason grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where he lost three friends over the years to gunshot wounds. When Mason reached high school, his parents facilitated his admittance to one of the top college prep schools in the country, The Harvard School (now known as Harvard-Westlake) in North Hollywood, California. While at the Harvard School, Mason was exposed to a diverse community of children from varying cultural and economic backgrounds and varying degrees of privilege. Mason declares he had experiences and made lifelong friendships with people that he otherwise would probably never have encountered or been exposed to. He honed his dream of being a scholar/athlete at the highest levels and was able to realize this when he was admitted to Amherst College in Massachusetts.
In 1996, Mason received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in political science from Amherst, where he had also played baseball. He went on to attend Stanford Law School, graduated in 2000 and is currently an attorney in Los Angeles. He previously worked as an assistant to a sports agent and a consultant at a consulting firm.
Mason is a member of the American and California Bar Associations, Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Black Sports Agents Association, National Association of Record Industry Professionals and Los Angeles Music Network.
In his spare time, Mason enjoys working out, any competition, fantasy baseball, drawing, reading and comic books. He describes himself as dominant, loyal, malleable and stubborn. He is most proud of being an all-around good guy. He was on "Blind Date" in 1998.
Mason is currently single and living in Los Angeles with his dogs, Bolo and Dog. His birth date is August 20, 1973.
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Bulldogs fall short
Copyright 2012
The Northern Lehigh Bulldogs looked ready on Friday night.
Not only did they look ready, but they looked poised to upset the No. 1 seed out of District 2, the Abington Heights Comets.
The Bulldogs led 20-9 at the end of the first quarter, but a 22-4 second quarter run from the Comets ended Northern Lehigh's upset hopes and their season. Abington Heights used that run to their advantage and pulled out a 62-54 victory to advance to the second round of the PIAA Class AAA State Tournament.
The Bulldogs came out firing in the first quarter and center Lucas Pierce led the charge. Pierce shot 6-for- 7 from the field and scored 14 of Northern Lehigh's 20 points in the quarter. Everything was going the Bulldogs' way in the first, but what most sports enthusiasts will tell you is that basketball is a game of runs.
"We saw coming in that they liked to play a lot of match-up zone," said Northern Lehigh head coach Jeff Miller. "We told our guys to be patient, play with confidence, and our shots will fall."
As the old adage say "the show must go on."
That's exactly what Comets sophomore sensation JC Show did on Friday evening. Show, didn't get off to a great start, much like the Comets, but Show and his team turned up the intensity in the second quarter.
Show scored nine points in the frame and the Comets forced the Bulldogs to turn the ball over on 10 straight possessions en route to their 22-4 run. Pierce who only missed one shot in the previous quarter didn't even get a shot off in the second. The Bulldogs didn't score until the 1:35 mark.
"They really amped up their defensive pressure in the second quarter," said Miller. "They completely took us out of any type of set or anything we wanted to do on offense. Then you got a situation where instead of being up now you're down to a very god ball club."
Most teams after a quarter like that could have come into the third disheartened, but Northern Lehigh kept fighting. The Bulldogs kept it close throughout the third getting within one at the 2:32 mark after Lucas Pierce hit a pair of free throws. The comets stayed on top however, and led by two heading into the fourth.
"I couldn't be any prouder of the way we fought tonight," said Miller. "After that second quarter our kids could have played with their heads down, but they never gave up."
The fourth was another roller coaster of emotions that saw the Bulldogs actually taking the lead with 6:18 remaining. The one-point NL advantage came off a Lucas Pierce bucket inside where he was fouled and completed the three-point play from the charity stripe.
However, things took a turn for the worse when John Vassil converted a lay-up inside, followed by a Show three-pointer off a Bulldog turnover. Show's three ignited the Abington Heights crowd and from then on the comets controlled the ball game.
Lucas Pierce finished with 21 points and Devin Glose added 10 for Northern Lehigh.
Show led the Comets with 20, with Jason Bamford and TJ Murray chipping in with 12 and 10 points apiece.
George 1-2-2-5, Dibilio 1-1-3-4, Glose 3-4-6-10, Eden 0-0-0-0, Landsberger 0-0-2-0, Johnson 4-1-1-8, Pierce 8-5-5-21, Pristash 1-2-2-5. TOTALS: 18-15-21-54.
Calvey 0-3-4-3, Vassil 3-2-2-8, Bamford 5-2-3-12, Murray 4-2-3-10, Elwell 2-4-5-9, Show 4-10-12-20. TOTALS: 18-23-29-62.
No. Lehigh 20 4 13 21 - 54
Ab. Heights 9 22 8 23 - 62
Three-pointers: NL - George 1, Dibilio 1, Pristash 1; AH - Show 2, Elwell 1.


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Time's person of the year isn't "you"
I hate to burst your bubble but before you start celebrating and bragging about it, you actually weren't selected as Time Magazine's person of the year. Yes, that's what their cover told you and they even provided a cheesy little reflective object so that you could see yourself (you're so vain, you probably think this blog is about you). But the sad fact of the matter is that the "you" which they're toasting is a select group, which you yourself are probably not included in.
Don't get weepy now... Let me explain.
First off, just to state the obvious, the ploy of making "you" the top dog this year is pretty weak. A cop-out? Sure, it is. A way to pat readers and potential readers on the back? Of course. As my girlfriend pointed out, by dodging a particular person to number one this year, a publication that's proudly been flaunting its Red-State values can avoid saying anything nasty about Dubya or giving his opposition too much credit with making him a lame(r) duck and effectively ending (or at least dampening) his militaristic, moralistic insane revolution. This has obviously been a terrible year for Dubya and the GOP so Time would no more rub it in now than Fox News would.
But is there any legitimacy to saying that the average people have the power of the Net now? Yes and no. Let's try to understand the "you" that they're celebrating on the cover. "You" means their audience (or potential audience) and not "everyone" per se. "You" doesn't include for instance Larry King (who claims that he's never gone online) or my grandma (who's also not online) or the millions of people in America and around the world who are left on the wrong side of the digital divide because of economics.
But even if we cut out most of humanity from the equation, we're still left with a tiny component that still make up Time's person of the year. Once we get down to the people with a computer and who are online, it's still a small fraction of that group which is doing anything interactive besides trading e-mail's and home photos with friends. While blogs are still popping up everywhere, the number of blogs that disappear (through neglect and not having enough time) is estimated to be in the millions. Some estimates put the figure at 10 percent or less as the total portion of Net users who even read blogs. Even if you add in all of people uploading video to YouTube and other sites and downloading songs at will, you're still talking about a fraction of the Net audience, which is likely also a fraction of the Time magazine readers out there. In other words, their version of "you" is really "just some of you out there..."
And if anything, what does this supposed power mean to the few of "you"? There are a handful of Net celebrities who are able to cunningly parlay their online notoriety into offline gains (note that most of them aren't just staying online exclusively to make money) but even that's a tiny slice of the already small group of "you" out there who are supposedly changed the world. Or at least the online world. Or are at least making a name for yourself for 15 minutes or less. I have no problem with these instant Net celebrities but let's not fool ourselves about their reach or true influence as of now.
If anything, the real people to toast would be (as CBS Marketwatch's Jon Friedman suggested) the Net entrepreneurs who enabled Net nerds to utilise it to personalize their media according to their taste: YouTube, MySpace, etc.. But let's face it- that's not as sexy as claiming that "you" are the top dog this year. That is, actually just some of you or relatively a few of you...


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Hello, I'm from Boston/NY looking for some rec's for my 4 days in SD (starting tomorrow). I'll be staying at Del Mar in Coronado
Day 1: From airport - drive straight to Super Cocina for late lunch
(maybe pick up some fish tacos to nurse the jetlag with). Any suggestions for takeout fish tacos in the Del Mar area (the brigatine? Miguels Cocina?)
Day 2: Going to Seaworld with the toddler - probably will do lunch (blech) at Seaworld because it is most convenient - Early dinner at
a sushi/Japanese joint - trying to decide between Kaito or izakaya sakura or Yu Me Ya. Are these places worth the drive to Encinitas? Are there really great sushi/Japanese places on the way back from Seaworld to Coronado? I also remember someone reccomended Cantina Panaderia which is near Seaworld?
Day 3: Day at the Del/beach: Lunch at Terrace, Cocktail at Peohe's. Dinner at Coronado (this is not flexible as we are attending a wedding there)
Day 4: Free/Flexible Day - Brunch at the Del. Haven't quite figured out this last day. I can either get Fish Tacos somewhere and find an activity to do around it. Trying to balance some toddler/grandparents friendly activities with chowdish food. Head over to Long Beach airport after dinner.
Option 1: Balboa Park - check out Extraodinary desserts, still need a dinner option on the way over Long Beach
Option 2: Fish Tacos - at El Zarape? but need to find some activity near it
Option 3: La Jolla, El Pescador Fish Market
Option 4: Mission Bay Park (would need rec's of places to eat)
Option 5: Seaport Village (same as above)
Other questions:
1. Couldn't find any "Must go places" in the Del Mar area so would love a few - but if nothing is really "worth" it then it is okay as I have a car.
2. Phil's Barbeque - is this worth going to? I spent 2 years living in Houston and really miss barbeque - Boston and NY just don't really compare. So I would be interested to try if you guys think it is comparable to TX


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"Mail Merge" and "easy to use" are not the words you often see in the same sentence. While you can use the Mail Merge feature in OpenOffice.org to perform rather advanced mail merge operations, it can also be rather difficult to get to grips with and cumbersome to use. Fortunately, the FastMailMerge extension can help you to run simple mail merges with minimum effort.
Once the extension is installed, it adds a separate toolbar in Calc containing the FastMailMerge button. Before you press the button, though, make sure you have your mail merge data in an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet, as this is the only data source FastMailMerge can use. Open the spreadsheet containing the mail merge data, select the desired data range, and press the FastMailMerge button.
This opens the FastMailMerge dialog window where you have to configure mail merge settings. You can create a new Writer document for mail merge from scratch (the Create a new document option) or select the existing one (the Open an existing document option). You also have to specify a directory for saving merged documents and select the desired format (you can choose between PDF, Microsoft Word, ODT, or HTML). Enter then a name for the merged files, and press the OK button to perform the mail merge operation.


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Monday, May 19, 2008
some quick Monday morning thoughts
Just to catch you up on important things that have been happening in my life (I know you're on the edge of your seat here). On Thursday night, I was at a work party with lots of fancy famous people. Everyone was drinking wine and I'm a bit of a lightweight (cough, cough--please, no need for friends to post any personal anecdotes here) so when an olive plate appeared in the middle of the party I thought it would be a good idea to stabilize my stomach with some tasties.
However, since there were all the fancy people and no one else was eating the olives, I became really self-conscious about the whole olive pit scenario. After popping about five olives in my mouth, I realized there was no tasteful and inconspicuous way to get rid of the pits, which I didn't want to spit out and put on the common plate (there were no napkins). So after about five minutes of sucking on them I swallowed them. No biggie.
Unfortunately, I also have a problem with looking at food that's sitting in front of me. In that I eat it. So by the end of the evening I had swallowed not 5 olive pits but probably closer to the tune of 40. It seemed like a fine idea at the time.
On Friday, I wasn't hungry at all. Or on Saturday, or Sunday. No appetite whatsoever. It was weird, because normally I eat everything all the time. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. UNTIL I REMEMBERED THE OLIVES. Once I thought of them, I could feel 40 distinct olive pits of various sizes in my duodenum. Just chillin'.
Clearly I am going to grow an olive tree out of my belly button. Sigh. This will greatly endanger my anonymity, because I'm not sure how many walking olive trees there are on New York editorial staffs.
In other news, yes, I'm still mourning the mouse. ::sob::
In other things that might be of interest:
Marie Mockett posted on writing about love, and she has some interesting thoughts about that. She brought up the Brontes, which regretfully spawned a tirade by YT in her comments section, but she's been very gracious about it. For the writers reading this, do you think you need to have experienced love (or a particular kind of love) in order to write about it? Or do you side with Toni Morrison about the power of imagination?
For fellow Bronte addicts and enthusiasts, Vulpes Libris posted this very interesting article awhile back called "A Monster Is Born." It's about Rochester, Charlotte Bronte's real-life love affairs/interests, and why a female writer might imagine a love-interest "hero" for herself who treats a character just like herself like crap. Oh, literary masochism, how I love thee.
For those Bronte enthusiasts (I know there are at least a few of you who read this blog, since we've posted/commented to this effect before), you should check out the Bronte Blog, which basically collects everything being e-published about the Brontes. I confess I subscribe to it.
Also (semi-related), Maud Newton posted this New Yorker link about why being a writer might kill you. Good to remember at all times. I mean, think of poor Emily Bronte--she died (you might say) of horrible reviews.
20 comments:
- ChrisEldin said...
I wonder if you wouldn't do a little experiment for me? Try chewing some bubble gum (not wrigley's or chiclets because they're not sticky enough), then swallow the gum and see if the pits stick to the gum.
- Monday, May 19, 2008 12:37:00 PM
- Merry Monteleone said...
First, Chris, ha,ha,ha.... you crack me up....
Okay, Moonie, I have to preface this with a, 'hey, you asked for an opinion' because it's likely to get long and windy as you hit on one of my own personal pet peeves - the distinction between an author and their fiction.
I think we all, being that your blog is populated by voracious readers who more than likely spent good smatterings of our high school and college years happily ensconced in literary analysis, waxing philosophical about our own theoretic diatribes on the hidden meanings in well known, or perhaps more engaging 'elite' literature... ya know, before we grew out of our pompous insufferability and saw a bit more of the world... but I'll digress on that point, I was at least as bad as some of the young scholars what occasionally annoy me now..
There are many places for a good fiction writer to learn their skills and to master the emotions of a setting they may not have experienced in life. I think studying an author's real life, especially for the aspiring writer, can be a great way to gain insights into their writing process... I draw the line, though, at their personal lives illuminating their work in some way.
The reason this becomes such a problem for me is because it antagonizes the self censor... there's so much at stake already, in putting your writing out for consumption, in building a thick enough skin to get past the unavoidable critcisms in the work itself, regardless of how good it might be... add to that the knowledge that there might be readers out there picking through the author's personal life for proofs of what they were really capturing through their work... their sexual persuasion, their deep seeded failures, their slightly manic love of purple popcicles... whatever.
Granted, most authors' works will not be held to this type of scrutiny and it is a sort of compliment to the greatness of the work when it is picked apart in this fashion... at the same time, though, if your objective is better understanding of the work, I think you need to remove the author completely, and view it separately, as its own world for its own value.
I did a book club blog, forever ago at a blogging community that's lost in cyberspace now... but the blog was on My Antonia by Willa Cather - lots to discuss there and it was a great series of posts... I ended the series with a post about Cather herself and the biographical implications of her sexual persuasion came up. There are a lot of literary scholars who believe Antonia to be a characterization of a woman Cather was in love with in her formative years, furthering this assumption is the thought that her main character being male is a further buffer, to hide the autobiographical aspects of the novel... it's a thought, a ponderence, certainly worthy of discussion, but ultimately I think it's worthless in understanding the novel itself...
I don't think the author needs to bring specific life experience to the novel. Some do, don't get me wrong, you draw from wherever it is that spurs your own muse and allows you to capture the world you're creating... but I don't think every author needs to do this. I think the work should stand on its own and the only time a supposition about the author's method of creating that world should be held as truth is when the author offers the information themselves... otherwise it's gossip dressed up as literary discussion.
- Monday, May 19, 2008 12:59:00 PM
- cindy said...
love the moonie update!
i'm sure the mouse is okay, moonie.
- Monday, May 19, 2008 4:03:00 PM
- Jennifer L. Griffith said...
Yeah, a walking olive tree would surely stand out in a crowd.
- Monday, May 19, 2008 6:16:00 PM
- Chumplet said...
Perhaps a spoonful of mineral oil will move things along.
This too shall pass.
- Monday, May 19, 2008 6:33:00 PM
- Chumplet said...
And they had no napkins? What kind of fancy schmancy party was this, anyway?
- Monday, May 19, 2008 6:34:00 PM
- Ello said...
Oh my god! I'm gonna try this too so that maybe I can stop stuffing my face for a day and lose some weight! HOping it all clears up alright!
- Monday, May 19, 2008 9:58:00 PM
- jesslovesnyc said...
I can't believe you swallowed olive pits! LoL
- Monday, May 19, 2008 11:03:00 PM
- Lisa said...
I'm with Ello -- if you don't turn into a tree, I'm huffing olives all weekend!
I don't think a writer needs to experience a particular kind of love or relationship to write it persuasively. I'm with Ms. M -- there's nothing more powerful than the imagination.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:21:00 AM
- JES said...
Merry: "deep seeded failures." Ha ha -- in the context of the olive-pit story, this possibly classifies as a Freudian typo. :)
Like Lisa, I agree with Toni Morrison on the question of writing about love (or any other emotional experience). Just as you don't have to have experienced a particular type of love or joy or terror or disappointment to console or empathize with a friend, you don't need to have experienced those things to write about them... given enough general emotional skills, and enough self-honesty and -awareness to assess your own writing about them.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:49:00 AM
- ChrisEldin said...
I'm glad Chumplet didn't suggest olive oil....
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:59:00 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
40 olive pits? Megads.
A friend of mine named Laura Joh Rowland published THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. It's getting great reviews.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:35:00 PM
- Sarahlynn said...
According to Tyra Banks, in response to an aspiring model who claimed she couldn't shoot well with a male model because she'd never had a boyfriend, never been in love: I've never been a geisha in real life, but I can still look like one.
Really, I swear I'm a huge fan of Villette. It's just that - perhaps - I've left my lit major pretentiousness a little too far behind?
Eh, I recently published a short story about a promiscuous teenager and - to my embarassment - most of my friends and family seem to think it's autobiographical. It's not. But apparently I wrote convincingly enough that even my husband thought the experiences were based in real life.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:21:00 PM
- Julie Weathers said...
Well, I should have been writing and couldn't resist peeking in. What do I find?
1. I definitely don't belong at fancy parties without napkins and pitted olives.
2. I am joining the others in an olive pit binge. Imagine how rich and famous Moon will be for inventing the olive pit diet that sweeps the nation.
Bold voice of announcer, "If you think diets are the pits, you're right."
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:23:00 PM
- Marie said...
Thanks for stopping by, Moonrat, and engaging me in conversation. That was fun. And thanks to everyone else who took a look at my musings. I'm glad so many people are on the "you need imagination" team, because that's who I'm batting for!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:24:00 PM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Like anything else they write about, unless it's a memoir, a writer isn't ever writing just what they know. They are imagining twists on things they know, and, sometimes (frequently?) purely from the imagination. If a person can successfully write about being someone of another gender, they can write about various sorts love without having been there in that precise location. If they can write from their own humanity, they can write anything with enough effort. Results vary as skills and perceptions vary, but the possibility is there for anyone to write about something they've never had.
Sorry you're still mourning the mouse. I just lost my old cat last week. He'd have loved that mouse. ;)
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:26:00 PM
- Alice Kildaire said...
maybe it's the mom in me, but I can't help but think 40 olive pits in the belly could be really bad for the digestive system!
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:35:00 PM
- Tomillo said...
If your readers haven't experienced what you're writing about, all you have to do is imagine it vividly for them. If, on the other hand, they have, your responsibility as a writer is to do enough research that you can pull some potent triggers that remind them. You don't need to have experienced something first hand to write about it authentically. You can bet Hemingway never spent days on end fighting a fish with his life in the balance.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:41:00 PM
- Bernita said...
You're saying the party was the pits?
- Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:38:00 AM
- TUMBLEWEED said...
omg you are ridiculous
- Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:22:00 PM


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I'm flying out to cover Image Expo and Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, but if I was sticking around San Francisco you'd be certain to see me at Sonny Liew's book release tour stop at The Isotope. Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye has already been declared "2016's first superalitve graphic novel" by our own Kyle Pinion, great review from NPR's Fresh Air, and it's already part of the discussion for what is 2016's first comics masterpiece. What's happening and where else can you see him?
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With the exponential rise in comics shows, and a corresponding rise in attendees, there's been a lot of talk recently about various pros imposing signing limits or charging for autographs at show, with the money often going to a charity. Popular con guests Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner have just made their policy clear.
Sounds like they are trying to limit the economy like Bernie Sanders….smh…even comics aren't safe from socialism.
This is a subject that has been on my mind for a while. I'll likely be blogging about it soon, probably before my first (of many) convention appearances this year.
Sounds more than fair.
I think this is absolutely fair. Have been trapped behind a lot of people (sellers?) in lines who have stacks of comics for signing. This is obnoxious from a fan's perspective because it causes the line to slow down. I would also think that it's not good for the artists. I feel sorry for their hands sometimes for having to sign so many autographs.
5 is already a lot. 1 would seem OK for me, making people choose and think about which book they want signed.
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What is most important to us is that we get to meet and talk to every single fan that came there to see us, and Amanda and I really love this part of the job. The limit is to help this along and to raise money for Hero and Animal shelters. Anyone that has ever come to our table knows how important it is for us to all have a great experience together.
I love both Amanda and Jimmy. Good people!! I don't mind dropping $2 for a book to be signed. It's not like they are trying to be greedy like Neal Adams $30 a signature. It's all for charity. I think this is a great idea and hope more artist and writers adopt this concept.
It's fair. Seriously, you get an autograph to basically have a souvenir of meeting the creator. Sometimes you want it on a book because that is one of your favorites or it is significant to you. Maybe a few books, even. But a four issue miniseries and a single book should be enough for just about anyone. After that you ought to feel guilty about monopolizing the time and making an ass of yourself in front of the professional you came to meet in the first place.
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Please note this is not a comprehensive listing of Free Comic Book Events –it's just info that people sent me. To find an event near you, go here. But it is indicative of some of the amazing things happening tomorrow, from an Eastman/Laird joint appearance to just about every other creator under the sun. It won't be boring. And the comics are awesome.Rochester, NH
Eastman and Laird together at Jetpack Comics!
(Lots of rules on this one — check the link)
That's right, the NH creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be the guests of honor for this years Rochester, NH Free Comic Book Day Festival! People are flying in from all over the country to meet these superstars, so we expect the lines to be long. With this in mind, we are going to have to place limits on how many things you can get signed. If you have more than the limit please feel free to jump back in line and do it all over again. We want to be fair to everyone that wants to visit Kevin and Peter.
PLEASE NOTE: Sketches will not be available that day. Please don't embarrass yourself or the creators by asking for a sketch. If you do we just may have to eject you from the line! There's simply not enough time (see the Eastman & Laird Guidelines below for more information). Of course there will be a vendor table of great Eastman and Laird works!
Montreal, Quebec
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly is happy to be participating in Free Comic Book Day 2014 on Saturday, May 3!
As always, we'll be giving out specially created comic books, free, all day!
Drawn & Quarterly's special comic this year comes from Shigeru Mizuki – it features an excerpt from his second volume of Showa: A History of Japan, covering the period from 1939 to 1944. Pretty exciting!
This is a kid-friendly event! There will be snacks!
New York, NY
Free comics for everyone who attends, while they last! There is a specific assortment to choose from and we'll also have our anniversary sale still going on, with Buy 2 get 1 Free on all graphic novels and back issues (bagged and boarded) for all JHU Members, which is free to join if you haven't already!
On top of that, we will be having some guests there to sign for us!
10am – Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder (Rocket Girl, Halloween Eve)
11 am – Reilly Brown (Deadpool: The Gauntlet, Incredible Hercules, DHP: St. George)
12pm – Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man, Superior Spider-Man, Silver Surfer)
3pm – Vivek J. Tiwary (The Fifth Beatle)
Brooklyn, New York
Bergen street Comics
A 7PM Book Release Party with LUKE PEARSON!
That's right! Starting at 7PM, Luke Pearson, the cartoonist responsible for Hildafolk, Hilda and the Midnight Giant and Hilda and the Bird Parade will be stopping by to help us celebrate. And yes, he'll be bringing a stack of early copies of Hilda and the Black Hound, her latest adventure!
While we're giving away the final free comics, Luke will be signing copies of Hilda and the Black Hound and regaling us with tales of life in Sherwood Forest (that's where he lives! seriously!) while we all have drinks and begin the recovery process.
Free Comic Book Day with Top Cow
On Saturday, May 3rd, Southern California comic fans have not one, but two opportunities to meet the Head of the Herd himself – Marc Silvestri! Marc will be signing books and promoting his new miniseries, Rise of the Magi, the zero issue of which is Top Cow's Free Comic Book this year!
First, catch him from 12 – 2 PM at Golden Apple Comics on Melrose in Los Angeles.
Then, at 3:30, Marc will be zooming up to Earth 2 Comics in Sherman Oaks.
Check out this interview that Marc did for Free Comic Book Day's official website to learn more!
Also making an FCBD appearance is Top Cow's President and C.O.O, Matt Hawkins! Matt will be at 4 Color Fantasies in Rancho Cucamonga, starting at 11:00 AM, signing issues of his many books, including Think Tank and Aphrodite IX, as well as giving out posters and discussing his new series, Tales of Honor!
WATSON AND HOLMES #1 Simonson Etching Variant
Copies of this will be given away at various shops around the country as found here.
Archie Comics writers and artists will be visiting comic shops around the globe! They will be on hand to sign books discuss their work. Here's a rundown of where they'll be and how you can find out more:
- Dawn Best (Sonic the Hedgehog) – Packrat Comics in Hilliard, OH
- Craig Boldman (Jughead) – University of Akron's Quaker Square General Store & Newsstand Comics in Akron, OH (10am-4pm)
- Steven Butler (Sonic the Hedgehog) – 3 Alarm Comics in St. Martin, MS (11am-6pm Saturday)
- Steven Butler (Sonic the Hedgehog) – 99 Issues in Mobile, AL (2pm-6pm Sunday)
- Bill Galvan (Betty & Veronica) – Dragons Keep in Lehi, UT in the morning and Provo, UT in the afternoon
- Jerry Gaylord (Sonic the Hedgehog) – Captain Blue Hen Comics in Newark, DE (10am-5pm)
- Dean Haspiel (The Fox) – Carmine Street Comics in New York, NY (1pm-4pm)
- Ben Hunzeker (Sonic the Hedgehog) – Challenger Comics in Chicago, IL
- Rich Koslowski (Archie) – Art Supplies, Ink. in Aptos, CA (2pm-5pm)
- Gary Martin (Mega Man) – Odyssey Comics in Vancouver, WA (9am-5pm)
- Alice Meichi Li (Mega Man) – "Women in Comics" panel at the Bronx Heroes Comic Con in Bronx, NY (3:30pm-4:30pm)
- Dan Parent (Archie) – Main Street Comics in Middletown, NY (2pm-4pm)
- Fernando Ruiz (Archie) – Dewey's Comic City in Madison, NJ (1pm-4pm)
- Jeff Shultz (Betty & Veronica) – That's Entertainment in Worcester, MA
- Evan Stanley (Sonic the Hedgehog) – Flying Colors Comics in Concord, CA (11am-3pm)
- J. Torres (Jinx) – Stadium Comics in Brampton, Ontario (10am-2pm)
- Stephanie Vozzo (Betty & Veronica) – Granite City Comics in Saint Cloud, MN (10am-12pm)
- Mark Waid (The Fox) – Alter Ego Comics in Muncie, IN (12pm-4pm)
New York, NY
Midtown Comics
Midtown Comics is excited to celebrate Free Comic Book Day with two days this year – in-store on Saturday, May 3rd, and online on Monday, May 5th. This is one of the largest events in the comic book industry, and Midtown is ready to celebrate!
Midtown will offer free new comics including every title from every publisher participating in this event. Some of the hottest titles from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, and Image Comics will be available with no purchase required, while supplies last. Over two million comic books for readers of all ages will be given away by participating stores nationwide, introducing as many people as possible to the excitement of comic books!
SATURDAY, MAY 3rd IN-STORE:
Midtown Comics celebrates Free Comic Book Day in-store on Saturday, May 3rd, Please note: some titles will be in very limited quantities and are not expected to last all day, and we recommend that you arrive early.
Store hours:
FCBD starts at 8:00AM at Midtown Times Square, and 11:00AM at Grand Central and Downtown.
All FCBD titles will be posted online at MidtownComics.com at approximately 11:00AM EST on Monday, May 05th and will be offered while supplies last. We recommend that you order early.
What's special only at Midtown: This year, we are thrilled to present our very own Midtown Comics exclusives of the FCBD book Future's End from DC Comics, and the Armor Hunters Special from Valiant Entertainment! Both releases feature the Midtown Comics logo and are ONLY available through Midtown Comics!
Future's End is a great issue to jump on board DC Comics' epic weekly series, featuring tomorrow's Dark Knight, Batman Beyond (making his first appearance in The New 52). Watch as he battles an army of cyborgs to avert an Apocalypse in the future, which could destroy the present DC Universe!
Armor Hunters features a group of the universe's fiercest warriors that are eager to destroy the X-O Manowar for the good of all. What horrible secrets does the armor hold? And how many armors have they destroyed before this one? These answers and more are revealed in the Valiant Universe events of 2014 – and it all starts right here with exclusive previews, character designs, and interviews from the biggest guns the Valiant Universe has to offer!
Chicago, IL
Quimby's and CAKE
Join the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] at Quimby's Bookstore [1854 W North Ave] on Saturday May 3rd 7pm to celebrate Free Comic Book Day with Chicago's Trubble Club!
This year, the Trubble Club has modified the Quimby's photo booth to capture your true essence. Come hang out with some of Chicago's best comics artists as they collaboratively reveal your inner self by interpreting psychic signals from their magical photobooth. Snacks and refreshments will be provided by CAKE, and free comic books will be available for pick up (while supplies last).
Trubble Club started as a group of Chicago-based cartoonist making jam comics. While we still do that, and love doing that, we've been branching out. The Infinite Corpse is a never-ending webcomic spearheaded by Trubble Club, that includes panels by both totally unknown artists, and institutions, like Art Speigelman and Kim Deitch. We have also recently done commissioned installations for the Museum of Contemporary Art, The DePaul Art Museum, and the John Michael Kohler Art Center.
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago's rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics' most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers. This year's CAKE is May 31 & June 1st at the Center on Halsted (3656 N Halsted), and is free and open to the public.
Visit http://cakechicago.com or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Madison, NJ
Dewey's Comics
Our FCBD 2014 celebration will include appearances by Keith Giffen and Fernando Ruiz, whose work will be appearing among this year's FCBD offerings, as well as an appearance by fan favorite artist Charles Paul Wilson III.
The full ARTIST ALLEY lineup includes veteran comic creator Keith Giffen (FCBD 2014 New 52 Future End), Archie Comics artist and writer Fernando Ruiz (FCBD 2014 Archie Digest), Charles Paul Wilson III (Wraith, Stuff of Legend), artist and editor Anthony Marques (DC Assistant Editor), Andre Szymanowicz (Hell Yeah, Image Comics), artist Nick Justice (Jesus E Lee), Kubert School alums and freelance artists Fabio Redivo, Max Fuchs and Mike Morrocco, writer Adam McGoven (Magic Bullet, Dr. Id, the forthcoming Image series Nightworld), and artist Ellen Stedfeld (Magic Bullet). And as we do every year, we'll be hosting a number of graduating 3rd year students from The Kubert School.
We'll also be offering bonus goodie bags for the first 100 or so folks in line, free face painting for kids, free sketches in artist alley, entry into a drawing to WIN two tickets to his year New York Comic Con for everyone who comes in costume, a visit from members of the 501st Legion of Star Wars costuming organization, the only place in New Jersey to get the Washington DC based independent comic newspaper MAGIC BULLET on FCBD, bonus giveaway for folks in line, and what we think may be the world's LARGEST bowl of OREO cookies! And lots of free comics of course!
Coliseum Comics – various events
Free Comic Book Day will run throughout the day on May 3rd at all Central Florida Coliseum of Comics locations, including the brand new Tampa location. Each location will have their own slate of special events scheduled. (Scheduled appearances subject to change. Please contact individual stores for more details.):
Coliseum of Comics Millenia
4672 Millenia Plaza Way
Orlando, FL 32839
Appearances by:
Costumed characters in support of the Hero Alliance
Balloon artist Denzil Jackson
Coliseum of Comics Kissimmee
3159 W. Vine St. (US Hwy. 192)
Kissimmee, FL 34741
Appearances by:
Star Wars characters from the 501st Legion and the Mandalorian Mercs
Costumed characters in support of the Hero Alliance
Balloon artist Denzil Jackson
Coliseum of Comics Fashion Square Mall
3201 E. Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32803
Appearances by:
Artists Travis Earls and Brian Wolffe
Characters from many costumer organizations
Coliseum of Comics Downtown Lakeland
121 S. Kentucky Ave.
Lakeland, FL 33815
Appearances by:
Sabertooth Swordsman artist Aaron Conley
Coliseum of Comics New Tampa
19402 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33647
Appearances by:
Superhero characters
Los Angeles, CA
Brave New World
Free Comic Book Day is a celebration of the culture of comics, so along with giving away thousands of freebies, Brave New World Comics will also offer free art classes throughout the day. Free demos of the popular tabletop games Heroclix and Magic: the Gathering. Comic book creators, artists and writers from Fanboy Comics and Cartoon Network will be signing, sketching and talking about their latest work. There will be exciting FREE photo opportunities with your favorite pop culture characters! Star Wars characters from the 501st Storm Trooper Squadron's Los Angeles Garrison will be here, along with the Southland Ghostbusters, and a few other surprise guests from the world of cartoons and comics. Free games, prizes, and a costume contest, sponsored by DK Publishing and Lego will round out the day's events. Attendees are encouraged to participate in Free Comic Book Day Bingo, collecting stamps from various stations around the shop. Prizes for completed FCBD Bingo cards are provided by Archaia Comics and DC Entertainment. In addition to all of the super fun, super-hero themed events at Free Comic Book Day, be sure to stop by the charity bake sale, benefitting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
"There's so much to do at our Free Comic Book Day event! Don't sleep in too late," warned Portlyn, Brave New World's perky proprietress, "if this event is anything like the first twelve, the free comics could run out before the crowd does… But the fun is here all day!"
Los Angeles, CA
Golden Apple Comics
*while supplies last
Creator Appearances
Saturday, May 03, 2014 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Saturday, May 03, 2014 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
meet cartoonist Scott Shaw! he will be handing out free Bongo Comics from 10am-4pm. Win a Full Sized Hand-Drawn Sketch from Scott instantly in our grab bags! Limited to the first 20 winners only!
Saturday, May 03, 2014 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Saturday, May 03, 2014 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Creator/Writer of the new Indy comic: The Heroes of Echo Company
Double Midnight Comics in Manchester, NH is going to have Gail Simone, Marjorie Liu, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb, Sara Richard, Ransom getty, Alex De Campi, Blair Shedd and Roger Andrews, in addition to the LARGEST FCBD Costume Contest in the US and the largest amount of artists and writer too!
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Some of the biggest stars at Comic-Con aren't even on the CW. These stars write these book things, and you may want to see them or get them to sign your all time favorite book. At various times at the Random House/Ballantine/Del Rey booth you'll find George R.R. Martin, Diane Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, Robin Hobb, John Jackson Miller, Anne Rice, Joe Abercrombie, Natalie Parker, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Emily Carroll, Patrick Rothfuss, Morgan Rhodes, Lynn Flewelling, Daniel H. Wilson, Pierce Brown, James Dashner, and Christina Lauren.
Plus that Fight Club panel we mentioned before:
Chuck Palahniuk and director David Fincher, plus some unnamed "special guests" will be on a panel Saturday, July 26, titled "Fight Club: From Page to Screen and Beyond." Even better? It isn't going to be in the legendary and infamous Hall H. That means that you won't need to set up camp on Tuesday to get a good place in line (like these super fans did in 2012 for theTwilight panel). I'd still get there plenty early, though. It's in Room 25ABC.
More deets at Suvudu, but here's the schedule in visual form:
Random House, you better do something similar at Book Con next year…
(You redeem yourselves at ALA. BEA? You're barely there.)
If I had to pick one? The Chip Kidd/Michael Cho event on Friday.
The book looks gorgeous. It's his first graphic novel.
Duotone, reminiscent of Cooke with some Tomine, and the charicature chops of Kyle Baker..
or try:
Words and Pictures,
Fri, July 25, 3pm-4pm, Room 9
Lev Grossman of Time Magazine moderates this panel featuring Faith Erin Hicks, Lucy Knisley , Jen Wang, Gene Luen Yang and myself discussing our comics, our artistic processes and the future of graphic novels.
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Image released their schedule for NYCC and goodies. Prepare to spend money and get some good comics. Theyve also announced an INstagam contest — photograph yourself in NYC holding an Image Comic and tag it with #imagecomics #nycc on Instagram and Twitter . Every day Image will pick most creative/interesting/coolest photo—winners can pick up their prizes at the Image booth #1544.
Image Comics is pleased to announce the schedule of exciting creator signings that will take place over the course of New York Comic Con, Thursday, October 9 through Sunday, October 12 at the Image Comics booth (#1544).*TICKETED* denotes signings will be ticketed. Tickets will be given out at the booth as soon as the convention floor opens. Tickets will be available for attendee badges only. There will be a maximum of 5 items per person allowed for ticketed signings. Grading services will not be permitted during any Image Comics signings. Only non-CGC graded books will be permitted during all Skybound signings. All CGC graded books must be taken to the CGC booth.
1-1:45 PM: Nick Spencer & Joe Eisma
1-1:45 PM: Brian K. Vaughan *TICKETED*
2-2:45 PM: Justin Jordan & Kyle Strahm
2-2:45 PM: Josh Fialkov
3-3:45 PM: Kyle Higgins
3-3:45 PM: Steve Orlando
4-4:45 PM: Daniel Corey
4-4:45 PM: Joshua Williamson
5-5:45 PM: Nick Pitarra
5-5:45 PM: Scott Snyder *TICKETED*
5:30-6:30 PM: Robert Kirkman (SKYBOUND) *TICKETED*
10:30-11 AM: Abhishek Singh
11-11:45 AM: Kyle Higgins
11-11:45 AM: Matt Fraction *TICKETED*
11-12 PM: Robert Kirkman (SKYBOUND) *TICKETED*
12-12:45 PM: Michael Moreci
12-12:45 PM: Brian K. Vaughan *TICKETED*
12:30-1:30 PM: Thrilling Adventure Hour group signing, Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Craig Cackowski, Hal Lublin & Autumn Reeser *TICKETED*
1-1:45 PM: Matt Hawkins
1-1:45 PM: Joe Harris
2-2:45 PM: Antony Johnston
2-3:30 PM: Todd McFarlane/New Spawn Creative Team *TICKETED*
2-3 PM: Joshua Williamson & Andrei Bressan (SKYBOUND)
3-3:45 PM: Tim Seeley
4-4:45 PM: Nick Pitarra
4-5 PM: Stefano Gaudiano (SKYBOUND)
5-5:45 PM: Nick Dragotta *TICKETED*
5-5:45 PM: Jason Latour
6-6:45 PM: Roc Upchurch
6-6:45 PM: Michael Moreci
10-10:45 AM: Megan Levens
10-10:45 AM: Sina Grace
11-11:45 AM: Matt Fraction & Howard Chaykin *TICKETED*
11-11:45 AM: Jason Latour
11-12 PM: Paul Azaceta (SKYBOUND)
12-12:45 PM: Joshua Williamson
12-12:45 PM: Frank Quitely *TICKETED*
1-1:45 PM: Brian K. Vaughan
1-1:45 PM: Brandon Montclare & Amy Reeder
2-2:45 PM: Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie *TICKETED*
2-2:45 PM: Jim Zub
2-3 PM: Khary Randolph (SKYBOUND)
3-3:45 PM: Bob Fingerman
3-3:45 PM: Otis Frampton
3:30-4:30 PM: Joshua Williamson & Andrei Bressan (SKYBOUND)
4-4:45 PM: Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine De Landro *TICKETED*
4-4:45 PM: Scott Snyder *TICKETED*
5-5:45 PM: Wes Craig
5-5:45 PM: Gus Storms & Stuart Moore
10-10:45 AM: Ken Kristensen
10-10:45 AM: Ales Kot
11-11:45 AM: Matt Fraction *TICKETED*
11-11:45 AM: Kelly Sue DeConnick *TICKETED*
11-12 PM: Shawn Martinbrough (SKYBOUND)
12-12:45 PM: Frank J. Barbiere & Chris Mooneyham
12-12:45 PM: Nick Dragotta *TICKETED*
1-1:45 PM: Scott Snyder *TICKETED*
1-1:45 PM: Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie *TICKETED*
2-2:45 PM: Josh Fialkov
2-2:45 PM: Tim Seeley
2:30-3:30 PM: Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta (SKYBOUND) *TICKETED*
3-3:45 PM: Adam McGovern
3-3:45 PM: Ed Brisson
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By Victor Van Scoit The San Francisco Bay Area has some fantastic comic book shops, with each having its own take for hosting creator events. One such store known for their intimate signings and creative shindigs is The Isotope. They're hosting two upcoming events this November that, should you live anywhere in Northern California, are worth checking out. […]
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We are getting GEARED up for BEA. Make sure to come find us at Booth 3352 for author signings and amazing giveaways. Here's a rundown of what's happening in the booth:
Tuesday, May 24th
9:00 to 9:30 AM - Priddy Tote Bag Giveaway
With this, you will be the envy of all your book-toting friends. Priddy on teal? LOVE!
10:00 to 10:30 AM - Lane Smith Signing
The man himself! The author of It's A Book and the upcoming Grandpa Green will be signing.
12:00 to 12:30 PM - Priddy Tote Bag Giveaway
Couldn't get up for the 9 AM giveaway? Here's a second chance!
3:00 to 3:30 PM - Ann M. Martin Signing
The woman behind The Babysitters' Club and the soon-to-be-released Ten Rules for Living with My Sister will be here and ready to sign!
3:30 to 4:00 PM - All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin Giveaway
The galley you all have been waiting for: It's got contraband, it's got gangsters . . . and it takes place in NYC in the future. I wonder if BEA would still be around then? Grab one to find out!
Wednesday, May 25th
9:30 to 10:00 AM - Priddy Tote Bag Giveaway
The perfect accessory to all those beach reads you'll be grabbing!
10:30 to 11:00 AM - Mary Pearson Signing
Authoress of The Adoration of Jenna Fox will be signing! Love Jenna Fox? Be sure to read the sequel, The Fox Inheritance.
1:30 to 2:00 PM - Priddy Tote Bag Giveaway
LAST CHANCE to grab!
2:00 to 2:30 PM - Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Giveaway
LOL funny and the perfect summer read. What happens when Jack (the character) helps out an elderly neighbor? The answer will surprise you!
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That's right folks! We're headed to Comic Con this week for the first time this year! If you happen to be there, come by Booth #1220 to say hello and to check out these great signings and panels!
Oh, and be sure to check out our graphic novel imprint, First Seconds Books, who will also be exhibiting at SDCC and see their amazing schedule as well.
THURSDAY, July 12:
12:00-1:00 PM In-Booth Signing: Michael Grant, EVE AND ADAM
3:00-4:00 PM Gennifer Albin (Crewel) on the "Hungry for Dystopia" Panel
Room: 25ABC
Hungry for Dystopia— With the skyrocketing popularity of The Hunger Games, dystopian literature has been creating major waves in the media. What attracts these authors to explore the concept of a totalitarian future that possibly awaits us all? Anna North (America Pacifica) leads the discussion with panelists Neal Shusterman (Unwind trilogy), Lissa Price (Starters), Paolo Bacigalupi (The Drowned Cities), Michael Grant (BZRK), Daniel H. Wilson (Amped), Gennifer Albin (Crewel), and Marie Lu (Legend trilogy). Room 25ABC
4:30-5:30 PM Post-Panel Signing: Gennifer Albin, CREWEL
Location: Autographing Area, Table AA09
FRIDAY, July 13:
10:00-11:00 AM In-Booth Signing: Jennifer Bosworth, STRUCK
11:30-12:30 PM Marissa Meyer (Cinder) on the "Remixed Fairy Tales and Superhero Lore" Panel Room 5AB
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Fierce Reads was launched in June with a spectacular tour! Four debut authors went on the road, with special author guests joining them along the way. The Fierce Reads tour took the authors across the country to meet new fans.
The four debut author and their books were:
And they were joined at various stops by Marissa Meyer, Jessica Brody, Lish McBride, Ann Aguirre, and Caragh O'Brien.
Couldn't make it to any of the events? Well you're in luck! Lots of bloggers went to the events and wrote up some recaps!
June 5: Mrs. Nelson's in La Verne, CA
June 6: Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, CA
June 7: Books, Inc. in San Francisco, CA
June 8: Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA
June 9: Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA
June 12: Provo City Library in Provo, UT
June 13: Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, TX
June 14: Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, IL
June 15: Schuler's Books in Lansing, MI
June 16: Barnes and Noble in Pensacola, FL
June 17: Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY
There will be a new Fierce Read Tour in the Fall, so be sure to check out the Fierce Reads Facebook Fan Page to see which authors will be coming and where/when.
And stay fierce!
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A funny piece in the London Observer looks at some of the perils of book signings (especially when no one actually wants a signature).
One example:
"How would you like it signed?" I ask, opening the page, and lifting my pen.
"Oh, just to me."
"Remind me how to spell your name, will you?"
"It's Tom!"
Read the rest of the essay here.
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I've been all over the place. I went back to the midwest and spent two days with my dogs, and I helped wrap the beehives for winter.
Now I'm back in Cambridge MA, missing the dogs, but starting to feel more at home in this rambling high house. The at-homeness has more to do with furniture than anything else, I think. For example, a desk-chair was just delivered. There's nothing like a comfy chair for making you want to sit and write, if you are me.
I've handed in the latest draft of the HBO AMERICAN GODS pilot, and a short film I've written for another project, and I'm writing a bunch of different things right now.
I'm also proof-reading and copy-editing a bunch of books. Today I got to read through the UK edition of Fortunately, The Milk*, profusely illustrated by Chris Riddell. I laughed a lot at Chris's rough sketches. Can't wait to see it finished. (Skottie Young's illustrating the US edition. I've only seen two pages of his work. It's just as funny in a different, more manic, way. I love them both and am so glad that each publisher went its own way on this.) Fortunately The Milk will be published in September in the US and October in the UK. I just wrote a description of it for the US edition. I explained:
This is quite possibly the most exciting adventure ever to be written about milk since Tolstoy's epic novel War and Milk. Also it has aliens, pirates, dinosaurs and wumpires in it (but not the handsome, misunderstood kind), not to mention a Volcano God.
It contains passages like this:
"You are charged with breaking into people's planets and redecorating them," said a noble and imposing-looking Tyrannosaurus Rex. "And then with running away and doing it again somewhere else, over and over. You have committed crimes against the inhabitants of eighteen planets, and crimes against good taste."
"What we did to Rigel Four was art!" argued a globby alien.
"Art? There are people on Rigel Four," said an Ankylosaurus, "who have to look up, every night, at a moon with three huge plaster ducks flying across it."
I love that Fortunately the Milk is two different books -- one in the US, one in the UK: it allows them to be published a month apart, which is much easier on the author.
In the old days of publishing, books in the US were published up to a year before or after the same books in the UK, but that started changing about ten years ago, and the internet changed it, as it has changed so much. People who like authors will buy their books when the books come out, and if the book is published in the US, people in the UK will simply go to Amazon (or some such website) and buy it, and if the book is published later in the US then American readers will head off to Amazon.co.uk (or similar).
When my new adult novel, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE** is published, this summer, it will be coming out on June the 18th in the UK and the US too. This presents interesting challenges, mostly involving bi-location, and makes me miss Concorde, just a little.
No, I do not miss the sonic booms or the environmental damage, and, having been on one of the Concordes once, I do not miss the plane itself, which was small and dilapidated and chilly and old. But I miss the way one could fly to New York from London and feel like one had made a local hop and land three hours before one took off, and I miss the moment of looking out of Concorde's window and seeing the curvature of the Earth and feeling like all human problems were very small and far away.
(It was about 15 years ago. I had to get to Amsterdam to do a signing in high summer, and the UK trip I was meant to be doing was suddenly cancelled, leaving me without a flight. When the person on Northwest airlines' phone said, "Honestly, I can't believe how many miles it will take to get you there during the blackout week. You could take Concorde for that," and I said, "Hang on, I can use airmiles to fly Concorde?" and she said, "Well, yes.")
Which is a bit of a wander off the subject, which is that it now looks like I'll do a few days in the UK before publication, then fly back to the US on publication day, and then sign like a fiend across America, then go back to the UK and sign some more and then probably come back and do a handful of Canadian signings, and then collapse.
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Yesterday I read PLEASE, LOUISE aloud with students of The Wilkes School at Grace & Saint Peters and Midtown Academy. It was an enchanting afternoon sitting under the stars of Enoch Pratt's Night Room chanting aloud the text from PLEASE, LOUISE. After we read together, I shared a bit of my journey as a young reader and artist along with a conversation about where ideas come from and how long it takes to make a book. And of course, there were plenty of questions that followed. At the end, I did a live draw of Patrick, a second grader I believe. Unfortunately, though, most of the students didn't think that I nailed his likeness. Tough crowd ;-). Afterward, I signed about 60 books and gave away posters and bookmarks to all of the students who attended. What a great celebration of PLEASE, LOUISE and the power of reading!
A SUPER THANK YOU goes to the amazing Deborah Taylor, Coordinator of School and Student Services, who graciously offered her support of this launch and a second super THANK YOU to Dr. Carla Hayden, who provided each child with their very own copy of Please, Louise. Dr. Hayden believes that children should not only have books available at their neighborhood library, but that they should also have books in the home. I concur! Thanks also to Selma Levi, for all of her support and for sharing the space with us!
Exchange of the day:
After passing out books to everyone at the beginning of the presentation, one young man just couldn't believe his luck.
Him: "I can keep this?"
Me: "Yes, it's yours."
Him: "FOREVER?"
Me: "Yes, forever."
Him: "Whoa."
Special shouts out to the two big kids against the wall, literary homies, Mathew Olshan, and Jonathan Bean who came to show their support!
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As devotees of the Winged Elephant know, Peter Quinn read from THE MAN WHO NEVER RETURNED last Thursday night at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House. We were lucky enough to have some bloggers report back from the scene.
Here's some of the post from From the Balcony, A Publisher's Blog...
In a fulsome introduction, the representative of Ireland House noted that Peter Quinn's last opus, Looking for Jimmy, about Irish America, was a huge hit with students of NYU. "The one copy is always in demand and we are endlessly copying chapters for students," she said. Opening his reading, Peter Quinn spluttered in disgust: "Just one copy. And you're breaking the law by photocopying it. My attorney is present and I saw him take notes at that." He was only kidding, I think. Here he is signing copies. Fintan Dunne, the detective Peter created, rides again in the new novel. Read it.
...and here's some from Hell's Kitchen, the blog of TheWildGeese.com.
Quinn, never at a loss for words, talked colorfully and candidly about his work, his writing process, and the judge's disappearance, more than he actually read. Quinn suggested, perhaps seriously, that readings such as his were archaic. They certainly do provide a vehicle for engaging with an auteur and his work, and the evening provided that in spades.
'The Man Who Never Returned" took shape, Quinn said, during a conversation he had a few years back with Paul Browne, deputy commissioner of public information for the NYPD and a fellow Manhattan College alum. Quinn added later that his writing was driven by character, not plot, and his characters emerge from conversations he has and those he readily imagines. This process emerges for him, in part, because, he said, "you are always writing about yourself," even in historical novels, which, he suggested, draw on the author's experience and personal history. He is famously in love with the historical research his books require, but said to be averse to the writing part. Novel writing is not only autobiographical, he wryly noted, "but psychotic."
What fun! We're glad you both enjoyed the event.
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If you're an author and are ever lucky enough to go on tour, then you might do something called the "drive-by signing." That's when you stop by a few (or all) of the other bookstores in the area where you have a scheduled signing, come in and meet the staff, sign the stock, and make a quick (and hopefully positive) impression before you are on to the next store.
And if you're again lucky, you'll have an escort who will have called ahead to check stock to make sure you don't end up in the awkward situation of standing at the info counter to learn that they have none of your books in stock.
(And if you're smart and have the energy, you'll have found out whether the escort planned to give the stores a heads-up about your visit. And if not, you have gotten the list of all the stores and tediously called them, one by one, a week beforehand, to see if they might bump up their stock so you'll have something to sign. Warning: making these calls will more than likely do a number on your ego.)
A Milwaukee bookstore owner looks at what makes for an excellent drive-by (or stop-by) signing, from his point of view. You can read his account of a "dreamy" drive-by signing here.
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If you make school visits, sometimes you are asked to sign body parts. I've been asked to sign kid's hands, and other authors have gotten in trouble for signing kid's bellies. But you have to see this picture of what Danika Patrick signed to believe it.
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Awwwww snap! Guess who's coming to New York next month. C'est moi! On November 4 from 5:30-7:30PM, Renée and I will be reading from our books, A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN, and WHAT MOMMA LEFT ME at Bank Street Book Store. I will also talk a bit about my illustration process and share sketches and inspiration from the book.
While in NY I will also get to check out the DRAWN IN BROOKLYN exhibition and be dazzled and inspired by many of my favorite illustrators and friends.
Somebody save me a seat at Enids for brunch! Fried cheese grits here I come!!!
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I thought you would like to see some video of Josh and I performing our "Berk Berk Balog" Vanilla Ice impersonation. Am I right?
Too bad. If you wanted to see it, you should have come.
Instead, I give you this picture:
And this one. The people at Barnes and Noble make awesome posters. I always have to take one home with me to frame because I am a dork. One of these days I may have enough to wallpaper my house:
It was a very fun signing, filled with lots of strange people, as usual. Many of them said our Berk Berk Balog dance was the highlight of their day, and several said it was the highlight of their existence. And that is not because they were strange, it is because we were AWESOME. And because Josh has a soft-mouth feel (more on that, later).
If you feel bad for having missed it, good. You have one more chance and then you're out of luck. Josh and I will be performing ONE LAST TIME (well, for now), at Farley's Bookshop in New Hope on November 21 from 1-4. Josh will also be on hand to explain the mystery of the soft-mouth feel, in case you are curious. It's guaranteed to be one of those life-changing events.
You'll be there this time, right?
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Ashley Bryan @ Library Lions 2008
I'm a little slow….
After receiving an e-mail last month about speaking with Ashley Bryan at the Auburn Avenue Research Library it wasn't until I spoke with my friend, Jan Burkins (Literacyhead.com) this morning that I realized I am being honored next year by Ashley Bryan in collaboration with the National Black Arts Festival!
Each year in collaboration with National Black Arts Festival and renowned illustrator Ashley Bryan AARL honors an illustrator for their commitment to the authentic and sensitive representations of people of African descent and Africana culture.
We would be honored to have you (Shadra Strickland) as the 2011 honoree. The event is schedule for Thursday, July 07 at 6:30 p.m. Honorees are asked to facilitate a discussion about their work and participate in a conversation with Ashley Bryan. This event would also include a book signing.
We would also like to exhibit your (Shadra Strickland's) artwork in our small gallery during the month of July.
Yeah, don't ask me how I missed that. They had me at "conversation with Ashely Bryan". WOO HOO!!!!!!! What a tremendous honor!
Many thanks to Ashley Bryan, the National Black Arts Festival, the Auburn Avenue Research Library, (and Jan Burkins for making me go back and read my e-mail slowly). See you in July!
This is fantastic news! What a wonderful acknowledgement of your work that is well deserved. Words can't express how proud I am of you. May you achieve many, many more.
Thanks Auntie
woo hoo! You're a STAR! will have to try to make this particular award ceremony…so proud of you!
WOW!! this is fantastic!! I am so proud of you cousin and I will be there!
Thanks cousin~
Ha! Hardly a star. I'd love to have you here in July Z.!
Thank you~
Congrats, Shadra!
Thanks Julie!
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I've got a couple of things cooking as far as YA author signings in Southern California.
First of all, the superlative Lisa McMann will be signing her new novel, Cryer's Cross, at Borders Glendale: Friday, February 11, 2011 at 7 pm. I'm collecting RSVPs to better help plan the event. Just in case you haven't yet picked up her previous books in the Dream Catcher series, I want to make sure they have enough there! You can fill out the form below if you think you're going to attend.
From Goodreads.com:
The community of Cryer's Cross, Montana (population 212) is distraught when high school freshman Tiffany disappears without a trace. Already off-balance due to her OCD, 16-year-old Kendall is freaked out seeing Tiffany's empty desk in the one-room school house, but somehow life goes on... until Kendall's boyfriend Nico also disappears, and also without a trace.
Now the town is in a panic. Alone in her depression and with her OCD at an all-time high, Kendall notices something that connects Nico and Tiffany: they both sat at the same desk. She knows it's crazy, but Kendall finds herself drawn to the desk, dreaming of Nico and wondering if maybe she, too, will disappear...and whether that would be so bad.
Then she begins receiving graffiti messages on the desk from someone who can only be Nico. Can he possibly be alive somewhere? Where is he? And how can Kendall help him?
The only person who believes her is Jacian, the new guy she finds irritating...and attractive. As Kendall and Jacian grow closer, Kendall digs deeper into Nico's mysterious disappearance only to stumble upon some ugly—and deadly—local history. Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried.
I can't wait!
My good buddy Janelle is also using her super-fangirl powers on Cassandra Clare and Holly Black... which means Borders Glendale *might* also be hosting another super-exciting Midnight Release Party as well... so if you want to be contacted about that, check the appropriate box--you'll help us show the publishers and Borders how many people they can expect at the party. If we throw it, fans will come!
I'm also going to be starting a YA publicity networking group on Facebook in the next week or so; if you want to be emailed when that launches, please check that box, too.
If you can't see the form be
Kaitlyn, Sandy, and I will definitely be there!
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They look yellow but they are actually green. I got them on tour at University Book Store in Mill Creek, WA.
Here's the rest of my CRYER'S CROSS TOUR:
Sunday, Feb 13, 2011, 3pm (with Caridad Ferrer -- When the Stars Go Blue)
19401 Alderwood Mall Parkway
Tuesday, Feb 15, 7pm
2825 West Main St.
Bozeman, MT
Wednesday, Feb 16, 6:30pm
2342 Bissonnet St.
Thursday, Feb 17, 7pm
14532 Memorial Dr.
NOTE from the bookstore's website: This event is free and open to the public. In order to meet Lisa McMann for book personalization, you must purchase Cryer's Cross from Blue Willow Bookshop.
A limited number of autographed copies of Lisa's books will be available for purchase after the event. If you cannot attend the event, but would like a personalized copy of her book, please call us at (281) 497-8675.
Friday, February 18, 2011, 7pm
A Real Bookstore
113 Prairie Road, Fairview, TX 75069
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 3pm
603 North Lamar Blvd
*note from the bookstore: You must purchase a copy of Cryer's Cross from BookPeople in order to get any of your books signed.
Saturday, Feb 26, 2011, 3pm
The Poisoned Pen
4014 N Goldwater Blvd. Suite 101
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Monday, March 7, 2011, 9pm Est / 8pm Central
Watch for me on OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network)! I'll be on the show Searching For... and some West Michigan fans just might be too. Hint...My search has *something* to do with Cabel from the WAKE trilogy!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson, AZ
Saturday/Sunday March 19 & 20, 2011
Teen Author Festival NYC
more info to come
Monday, March 21, 2011, 7pm
Little Shop of Stories
133A East Court Square
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 7pm
7660 Northpoint Parkway
Suite 200
March 23, 2011, 7pm
Indigo - Yorkdale Mall
3401 Dufferin St.
Toronto, ON
(416) 781-6660
Also appearing in 2011 at:
*LA Times Festival of Books Apr 30/May 1
*Phoenix Comicon May 27-29
*more info to come
LOVE the glasses. Super cute.
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Whenever I get something from Ben Hatke, it is always adorable. So I've received in the mail adorable bookplates, adorable family adventures, occasionally even adorable chickens. I've come to conclude that Ben just naturally generates things that are adorable. And his book that came out from First Second this month, Zita the Spacegirl, is no exception – it's filled to the brim with adorable mice, robots, aliens, and an adorable protagonist to top it all off.
Ben's just done his first book signing, at Politics & Prose. Guess what? It's adorable too!
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Great for junior naturalists! Get a pair of them when you purchase a copy of Habitat Spy (until they run out).
More Signing info:
1356 South Fort Thomas Avenue
Fort Thomas, KY 41075
Phone 859.781.0602 FAX 859.781.0728 e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
website http://www.bluemarblebooks.com/
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I made this in the slow cooker - for the sake of time and simplicity, I literally just put all the ingredients in the cooker pot, gave it a stir and left it on low for 7 hours. I omitted a 1/4 cup of the water, increased the meat to 500g, and used regular diced onion - and used the flour at the end to thicken. Really nice mellow flavour and the whole family enjoyed it! - 23 Feb 2012
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Chertoff's Cousin Penned Popular Mechanics 9/11 Hit Piece
Chistopher Bollyn for American Free Press | March 7 2005
Dictators like Saddam Hussein have always used nepotism to protect their secrets and maintain control. Like a dictatorship, the inner cabal that directs the actions of the Bush administration uses the same tactics to confuse the public and conceal the truth of 9/11.
Dictators have always employed nepotism, the placing of family members in key positions, for one simple reason: only loyal family members can be trusted with the secrets that keep them in power. For this reason the shameless nepotism of the Bush administration should alarm Americans because it indicates that a dictatorship is encroaching upon the United States.
The Defense Department defines nepotism as the situation when relatives are in the same chain-of-command.
An egregious example of dictatorial-style nepotism occurred when George W. Bush won the White House ? twice ? thanks to the key "swing state" of Florida, where the presidential candidate's younger brother is governor. In 2000 and 2004, against all odds, Florida swung decisively, the Bush way.
With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher.
But the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) plumbs new depths of nepotism and Hearst-style "yellow journalism" with its cover story about 9/11. PM's senior researcher, 25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, authored a propagandistic cover story entitled "Debunking 9/11 Lies" which seeks to discredit all independent 9/11 research that challenges the official version of events.
"Conspiracy theories can't stand up to the hard facts," the cover reads. "After an in-depth investigation, PM answers with the truth," it says. But the article fails to provide evidence to support its claims and doesn't answer the key question: What caused the collapses of the twin towers and the 47-story World Trade Center 7?
The Chertoff article goes on to confront the "poisonous claims" of 16 "myths" spun by "extremist" 9/11 researchers like myself with "irrefutable facts," mostly provided by individuals in the employ of the U.S. government.
But who is Benjamin Chertoff, the "senior researcher" at Popular Mechanics who is behind the article? American Free Press has learned that he is none other than a cousin of Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
This means that Hearst paid Benjamin Chertoff to write an article supporting the seriously flawed explanation that is based on a practically non-existent investigation of the terror event that directly led to the creation of the massive national security department his "cousin" now heads. This is exactly the kind of "journalism" one would expect to find in a dictatorship like that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Because the manager of public relations for Popular Mechanics didn't respond to repeated calls from American Free Press, I called Benjamin Chertoff, the magazine's "senior researcher," directly.
Chertoff said he was the "senior researcher" of the piece. When asked if he was related to Michael Chertoff, he said, "I don't know." Clearly uncomfortable about discussing the matter further, he told me that all questions about the article should be put to the publicist ? the one who never answers the phone.
Benjamin's mother in Pelham, New York, however,
was more willing to talk. Asked if Benjamin was related to the new Secretary
of Homeland Security, Judy said, "Yes, of course, he is a cousin."


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It was another close game for Lakeside on Tuesday night and another heartbreaking defeat.
Trailing by one with 36 seconds to play, the Panthers
(11-14, 2-8 Region 2B-AAAA) had to take two timeouts and ultimately could not get a final shot off in a 53-52 loss to Statesboro.
"We just came up short," said Panthers forward Chris Hall. "We were under pressure and we didn't get it."
It was the seventh game the Panthers have lost by five or less and have lost two of its past three games by a free throw.
The game was crucial for Statesboro (13-12, 7-3), who entered tied for second with Evans in the region. Evans will face South Effingham on Friday night and a win would put tiebreakers into effect to determine the region's second seed.
The Panthers were aggressive in the first half and got to the free-throw line frequently, hitting 13 of 17 attempts while building a 31-25 halftime lead.
Hall, who led all scorers with 18 points, was especially effective, getting into passing lanes and turning steals into layups.
The second half was a different story as the Blue Devils, who outscored the Panthers 18-11 in the third quarter and entered the fourth with a 43-42 lead.
"We attacked well in the first half, in the third I wasn't sure it was the same team I was watching," Panthers coach John Kucela said.
The Panthers took a 52-51 lead on a Chris Watson layup with 1:06 to go. Johnathan Taylor corralled an offensive rebound on the Blue Devils ensuing possession, was fouled and calmly sank both free throws with 36 seconds remaining.
The Lady Panthers had a tall task at hand, facing the top team in the region, with Statesboro entering with a 12-game winning streak.
The Lady Blue Devils
(24-1, 10-0) took control early with their size and speed, cruising to the 55-31 win.
"At the beginning of the season if you said we could win 10 games, I would have laughed," said Lady Panthers head coach Jody Hilley, referring to his team's inexperience. "It's a tribute to our kids, they've worked hard. Tonight we were out-
Alisia Jenkins led the Lady Blue Devils with 14 points.
Rosalyan Talley led the Lady Panthers (9-14, 3-7) with a game-high 15 points.
The Lady Panthers heads into the Region 2-AAAA Tournament next Tuesday at Richmond Hill, most likely as the five-seed.


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NYRR's 9+1 program gives NYRR members a means of guaranteed entry into the marathon. Members who run in nine qualifying NYRR races and volunteer at one NYRR race in a calendar year are guaranteed entry into the following year's New York City Marathon. NYRR's announcement means that, even though the 2012 marathon was canceled, it will count as one of the nine qualifying races for guaranteed entry into the 2013 marathon.
The announcement, however, does not appear to have much import.
At the November 2 press conference announcing the marathon's cancellation, NYRR CEO Mary Wittenberg said that all 2012 registrants would be guaranteed entry into the 2013 marathon or the 2013 NYC Half, the organization's signature half-marathon, held in March. As such, it would appear that NYRR members who had planned to use the 2012 marathon as a qualifying race for the 2013 marathon won't need to compile the necessary 9+1 credits--as 2012 marathon registrants, they're already part of the larger group that NYRR has said will have guaranteed entry into the 2013 marathon.
When asked about this apparent overlap, a NYRR spokesperson told Runner's World Newswire, "The information about 9+1 is totally separate from the bigger marathon resolution issue or what Mary said at the press conference. A lot of folks were concerned that they wouldn't get credit for the 2012 Marathon so while NYRR is working through all of the issues related to the bigger issue they wanted to at least address that question."
In response to a follow-up question, again questioning the relevance of the 9+1 announcement, the spokesperson said, "There's no change to what Mary said about guaranteed entry to 2013. However, since many members were asking if they were getting the credit we wanted to address that question. In terms of how runners can use those credits, that's something still being worked out."


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Throughout its history, Nebraska has mined the state of California for top running back prospects such as Tyreese Knox, Terry Rodgers, Derek Brown, Lawrence Phillips, and just recently Terrell Newby.
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