I’m feeling so inspired with so many ideas lately, like the world is all connected in a beautiful web of thought. I’ve learned that I need to capitalize on these times, because there are lulls, but I cannot get a single fecking thing accomplished.
Publishing
Industry news and celebration of the book as an object.
Books in Fictional Worlds
Yesterday, I didn’t post, but I did start a Tumblr:
Tumblr (the title keeps changing)
A Sequel, of Sorts
In a wonderful stroke of fortune, our first book club selection is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee… and she broke the internet today (well, certain corners of the internet):
Go Set a Watchman, out July 14, 2015!
TribFest and Texas Book Festival
This year, the Texas Tribune Festival and the Texas Book Festival will take place on the same weekend, October 16-18.
It looks like it has something to do with UT Football’s bye week. The TribFest (on UT campus) and the Book Festival (on the capitol grounds) might make this a weekend worth staying out of Austin.
St. Brigid’s Feast Day
I’m proposing we start treating January as “Give Yourself a Break” month and not commence the “new year, new me” insanity until February 1. It is the start of the Celtic spring and the feast day of St. Brigid. She is patron saint of printing presses, but I’ve never figured out why, though I expect it has something to do with Wynken de Worde.

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