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Just humor me while I post a bunch of Buffy quotes.

The BtVS episode "Intervention"--i.e., the one where the Buffybot is introduced--is much better than I remembered. Not only does it have the first genuine and non-spell-induced Buffy/Spike kiss, but the awesome quotes abound! Behold...

Buffy: Weird love is better than no love.

Buffy: So, how's it start?
Giles: I, uh, jump out of the circle, and I jump back in it, and then, um...(sheepishly) I shake my gourd.
Buffy: Oh, I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the hokey ...

Swamp Things, dragons, and tidy barbarians: meet author Jennifer Schwabach.

Help me welcome today's actual live published author willing to let me interview her: Jennifer Schwabach!

Welcome! First tell us a little about your two published novels with Double Dragon.
First of all, thanks! Dark Winter was written first, but Curse's Captive was accepted and came out first. (On some listings, it's called Captive's Curse.)

DW has lots of zombies, because what's life without zombies? And necromancers, because that's where zombies come from. Saril is a lost colony world that ...

Cliche count

One of the sponsors for "Sesame Street" on our PBS station is a certain multi-location family resort chain that shall remain nameless, because I'm about to pick on their advertising copy. They say, in their voice-over:

"...because the family that plays together grows together, sharing precious moments and turning wondrous adventures into a lifetime of memories."

Or something very close to that. It befuddles my mind every time, because, jeez, they packed four cliches into the space usually reser...

You heard it here first: "The CIA loves Facebook." Meet today's author!

Today my author spotlight falls upon Doralynn Kennedy, who has a background in the military police as well as being a great writer. She's the author of Sleeping with Skeletons, a thriller-romance about a double-crossed American spy hiding out in Ireland (from both the bad guys and the CIA), who knows it's a bad idea to fall in love with a famous film star working nearby on a movie adaptation of Jane Eyre, but can't help doing so anyway. Welcome, Doralynn!

As I've let you and the rest of the...

LJ/FB/DRAMA/etc.

I chose this icon because it seems to express how many of you are feeling toward LJ lately.

Rest assured I won't click that "cross-post to Facebook/Twitter" box on any comments I make on your posts.

And while I do have my LJ posts showing up on FB (and have for several months now), it's actually fed the other direction: namely, I have FB check for new public entries (it won't catch friends-locked ones) and put them up as notes. It only posts my entry; not your comments.

I have a permanent LJ acc...

Summer Term is here! Also, a perfume review (New Haarlem).

My copies of Summer Term arrived, all glossy and beautiful! And the ebook version is now exploding onto the e-reading screens of the world too, via Kindle and other formats.

Also, I recently discovered a very cool site that helps you support indie bookstores. It's called Indiebound, and from it you can order practically any book (including mine) and have it sent to an independent store near you for pick-up. Give it a try!

And now for today's perfume review: New Haarlem, by Bond No. 9...

Yum! De...

Summer Term! And the unread letter trope.

Woohoo! You can now pre-order Summer Term, my latest frothy/raunchy/chick-flicky novel, either direct from the publisher (I get a bigger kickback that way), or from Amazon.com.

And I'm proud to say Summer Term does not include this occurrence that pops up left and right in films and books, and which annoys me into hives every time: namely, when a character receives a significant letter from someone, and, basically out of spite, doesn't read it. They send it back unopened, or shelve it for yea...

Poem - "The Reader"

I don't read a lot of poetry, but occasionally a poem grabs me. I liked this one, found in the Book Club of Washington email newsletter. Enjoy...

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The Reader

by Robert Bringhurst

Who reads her while she reads? Her eyes slide
under the paper, into another world
while all we hear of it
or see is the slow surf of turning pages.

Her mother might not recognize her,
soaked to the skin as she is in her own shadow.
How could you then? You with your watch and tongue
still running, tell me how much does...

BPAL obsession: it's back!

Thanks to a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab launch party at Knows Perfume last night, today I smell divinely of the fragrance Dee:

John Dee: master of science, alchemy and magic, Hermetic philosopher in the schools of Rosicrucian Christian Mysticism and Platonic-Pythagorean doctrine, and Queen Elizabeth's astrologer, advisor, cryptologist and spy. With Edward Kelly, he created a field of study and work in Angelic Evocation, and isolated the Angelic language: Enochian. His scent is soft English leath...

Love stories, streetwalker shoes, and...diazeugma?? Meet the author of 'The Love Thing.'

New feature on my blog: once in a while I'll snag an actual live author and interview him or her! My first subject is one I'm proud to have, as I recommended his novel The Love Thing a while back: Chris Delyani.

Welcome, Chris! As you know, I loved reading The Love Thing, and one of my favorite features was its humor. Who would you cite as your biggest influences in comedy?

My late father used to tell me that I reminded him of his own mother, who died two years before I was born. She liked to ...