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Some Things About Myself That I Need To Work On

* 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...

Two Places to Find Me

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...

Libraries, My Mother, Dewey and You.

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 –...

It’s Dewey Donation System Time!

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...

It's Dewey Donation System Time!

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 in “Somtimes I’m Stoopid.”

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 in "Somtimes I'm Stoopid."

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...

Hey, Pamie: “What Does a Non-Staffed TV Writer Do in February?”

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...

Hey, Pamie: "What Does a Non-Staffed TV Writer Do in February?"

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...

Here Comes My Old Lady Rant

I bought the worst tea the other day!

That's really all you have to read, but I'm going to elaborate.

I have been out of tea for a while because I don't drink it.

That's not exactly true. There are three hundred packets of stale Lipton tea in my pantry right now because I buy a new box for my mother every time she comes to visit, but nobody I've ever met other than my mother drinks Lipton tea. This spans more than one continent, because when my mother was in Paris she told every waiter we had...