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Chat & Interview a Raving Success! (Or am I Just Raving 'Cause I'm Tired???)

Who'da thunk typing for 14 hours could be so FUN?

OK, I was a wreck afterward, but I had a wonderful time talking with the people who came to my chat. We racked up over a hundred comments, and the conversation ranged over some really interesting stuff. I suppose it will remain up there on the Bitten By Books site - it's rather too long to post here! - so if you are curious you can pop over to Interview, Chat and Contest with Author C. June Wolf and leaf through the comments.

I find I am on...

Review: Bones Become Flowers, by Jess Mowry

Bones Become Flowers

by Jess Mowry

Windstorm Creative (2001)

Paperback, 392 pages

$18.95

ISBN 1883573912

Author of Way Past Cool, Phat Acceptance, Voodu Dawgz, When All Goes Bright, and Skeleton Key as well as other novels for and about black kids and teens, such as Six Out Seven, Babylon Boyz, Rats In The Trees, Ghost Train, Tyger Tales, and Children Of The Night. His novel Way Past Cool also available in film version.

After over thirty years of working with kids...

We're Live!

Wow. What an interesting experience this interview, chat, & contest at Bitten By Books is turning out to be! Rachel (our bitten leader) knows what she is doing, and offers so many ways for readers and writers to connect. I'm just blown away.

If you are around between now and 11 or so tonight, come on-site and leave a comment, ask a question. I look forward to writing the prizes!

Cheers,
Casey

Interview, Chat and Contest with Author C. June Wolf Posted under Contests, Interviews, Videos, Vlogs by ...

RSVP for extra chances to win AND See Me Make a Fool of Myself on Video!

I just got wind that anyone hoping to be there for the interview, chat, and contest on the 23rd will get 50 extra entries into the draw if you RSVP ahead of time. Here is the link:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=10376 You still need to show up for the online event, write a comment and ask a question to be entered into the draw. To my delight there are already 20 people signed up, each eager for a story written for her. I'm so psyched! This has got to be the most fun promotion I've done. Se...

Want Me to Write You a Story? Come to My Interview & Chat

It's true. If you enter, and win, I will write you a poem or a story (after consultation with you), and send you a copy of my book. Heck, I'll even phone you up and read you what I wrote, if you like. Or you may win a gift certificate for the Amazon of your choice. (You don't even have to tell me her name.)

So, Casey, tell me more.

On 23 September I'll be doing an interactive interview with Rachel at Bitten By Books, then settling down to answer questions and chat with whoever logs in to talk...

Making a Case-Bound Book

I stumbled across the term "Case-Bound Book" and thought, "Eh?"

What could I do but look it up? And there on the vastness of the internet I found a wonderfully detailed site which demonstrates, with clear and seemingly endless photographs, how to make a case-bound book.

Curious? Come with me:

http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres/manual/treatments/cbind/front.html

Making a Book Images and text by Garry Harrison,
Head, Circulating Collections Conservation,
Indiana University Libraries

Casey and Finnegan

Okay. It has nothing to do with writing, but it has a BIT to do with Mr. Dressup.

This is me with my aunt's dog, Finnegan, during our weekend together in Steveston, BC. Looks cute but boy can he dig in his heels. And before you ask: Brussels Griffon.

Photo by Mary Bragg. Thanks, Mare!

The Original Casey, Mr. D, and Finnegan

Did You Opt Out of The Google Book Settlement Today? Last Chance!

Finally made a decision on this, the last day. I opted out. What a headache this whole thing has been. So very confusing and...unnatural...

Below you'll find two writings on the topic, the first from Access Copyright, which looks out for authors in Canada, and the second from a South African news and technology site, ITWeb.

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Google Settlement Opt-Out Deadline is Today

September 4, the deadline to opt-out of the Google Book Settlement, is here. If you were wishing to opt-out of the...

"Dreamcatcher" and Roomies

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Well, it's out. <![endif:]-->Élisabeth Vonarburg, Mary E. Choo, and Candas Jane Dorsey. Editor Fiona Lehn interviewed Ursula LeGuin for the issue - Ursula's thoughts are always interesting - and there is a mini-interview of two authors who appeared in the 1981 SF issue, Eileen Kernaghan and...

La Chanson de Chanmas

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Below is my brief LibraryThing review of this stunning short book by Bob Belenky, author of Tales of Priut Almus: Participant Observation in a Russian Children's Shelter.



La Chanson de Chanmas, in Creole, French, and English, with photos.

If there were more stars I would definitely give them to this book. Robert Belenky and Gody Boursiquot have, in winning the trust of these girls living on the streets of Port au Prince, Haiti, and bringing their words, brief and crystalline, to rspan