Pamela Ribon's Blog: the latest from pamie.com

A great letter in my inbox today.

Hi, Pamie,

How are you? Last year, I wrote to you about how your book helped nudge me into joining my derby league, and I had my first bout March 2011. You were kind enough to write back, which was really awesome.

Anyway, I wanted to pass along to you something I’m super proud that our league is doing. We’ve created a scholarship for a female athlete, not based on athletic ability, but based on her passion for whatever sport she plays in whatever capacity. So...

“You don’t know about Pinterest? You don’t know about PINTEREST?!

Pinterest.

PINterest. It’s on the Internet. It’s like, the most, the most, THE most amazingly successful website…EVER. Something like the fastest, hundred million, it’s like– do you know Facebook? Like TEN times that. Yeah.

It’s all about beautiful things and style.

Okay, what happens is like I see a picture or something I like. And I pin it. I pin it. ‘Pin.’ I pin it and then other people like it too, so they pin it. And then oth...

* When I’m in a public restroom and a lady comes out of the stall, I really want to stop saying “Thank you” to her when I pass her on my way in. And I mean, I really thank her in a genuine way, every time. There is no need for this thank you. It’s not like I was about to pee my pants. If anything, all it does is draw attention to the fact that I’m about to use the toilet she just finished using. I will be in her “pee space,” as the mother of an ex-boyfriend of mine used to say when she’d scol...

Southland-area peeps! I’ll be at this weekend’s LA Times Festival of Books!

Sunday
Bovard Auditorium
3:00 pm
The Nerds Shall Inherit the Earth. (Panel 2093)
Maureen Johnson
Pamela Ribon
John Scalzi
Interviewer: Amber Benson

I love that this panel is coming right after the conversation with Anne Rice. I’m always next to her on bookshelves, so why not get slotted right next to her at a festival for books?

I’m extremely excited about my panel this year, and look forward to out-dorking myself. For t...

One day in and Dewey's already making the DCPL excited and teary.

We are at $1,440 as of about 5 minutes ago – I'm getting a notification about every 5-10 minutes!

Here's a very sweet note we just got from one of the donors:

In Honor of Louise Reid, my first school librarian. And also Mom.

Might be fun to ask people to tell their first library / librarian story in the "in honor of" section – along with Dewey / DC Rollergirls, of course. I bet we'd get some great feedback!

Again, we're thrilled –...

Hello, fine people. It’s that exciting time of the year when we put on our do-gooder hats and go send some books to some strangers. The Dewey Donation System is open for business, and this year we’re sponsoring two libraries in need brought to us by two very special pamie.com/Dewey fans.

Heather Askew is a long-time reader who once took a picture of one of my books at the Taj Mahal. And then she sent it to me. That’s a very special kind of fan love, you guys.

She went to Thailand through her ch...

Hello, fine people. It's that exciting time of the year when we put on our do-gooder hats and go send some books to some strangers. The Dewey Donation System is open for business, and this year we're sponsoring two libraries in need brought to us by two very special pamie.com/Dewey fans.

Heather Askew is a long-time reader who once took a picture of one of my books at the Taj Mahal. And then she sent it to me. That's a very special kind of fan love, you guys.

She went to Thailand through...

This week has taught me a few lessons I should’ve learned long ago. I’ll share them with you on the unlikely chance I’m not the last person to learn these things.

First: I got internet scammed.

I am mad at myself about this. No, actually, I’m just mad at my brain. This isn’t all of me’s fault. But sometimes it’s late on a Friday night and you’re sitting too close to the television watching someone in HD who looks a little scary in HD and you start thinking about your own skin and the state of t...

This week has taught me a few lessons I should've learned long ago. I'll share them with you on the unlikely chance I'm not the last person to learn these things.

First: I got internet scammed.

I am mad at myself about this. No, actually, I'm just mad at my brain. This isn't all of me's fault. But sometimes it's late on a Friday night and you're sitting too close to the television watching someone in HD who looks a little scary in HD and you start thinking about your own skin and the state o...

Aspiring television writers! Curious-about-writers people! Those of you sitting there thinking, “Uh, I know pamie doesn’t have a pilot, she’s not staffed, her latest book is turned in… so what the eff is she doing not updating pamie.com?”

Today’s Weekly Procrastination is for you.

Subject: YOUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION… although why do you let us do this to you?

Hi Pam,

This question is for Pam the TV Writer, not Pam the Author or Derby Girl or Cat Lover (although I have loads of questions for th...