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Not Like The Other Like: An Sesame-Tastic Interactive Multi-Media Blog-Sperience

Oh Best Beloveds, TOMORROW I am going to post a one SHORT succinct post that that explains The Virtual Book Tour without my usual 1,000 digressions. The new one will show ALL the prizes. *excite*

But today I want you to play this You Tube video, and as the nice lady sings I want you to look at the image just below, a screen capture of things our dear friend Facebook suggests that you might if you like me:

Here is the screen capture:

HOW DID YOU DO? The Alice Hoffman, Julia Spenser Flemings can b...

Art Story (and a Thanks!)

Dear Kazamir Malevich,

I SUPER love the way you play with perspective—Cow and Fiddle? RIGHT ON. Englishman in Moscow? You have so brought on the sexy there. This self portrait? Yes, PLEASE, I’ll take two. But later on in your life, right about the time you started doing all this Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions thing, you kinda lost me. I am sure this grieves you deeply.

Love, Philistiney McPhilistine

It’s because of narrative. My unholy love of narrative. Ha...

My Cool Friends

I have the coolest friends. One of them is Skeet, a guitarist with LOOK WHAT I DID.

He dropped by the blog and heard my CANDY song – which, if you have not HEARD the Saga of the Candy song, you really need to drop down one entry and Read this first.

We will wait.

Back? Okay, so, now that you have higher opinion of the highness of my high mental illness number and have heard my candy song, I can tell you that Skeet was so TAKEN with my great work of musical genius that he did a REMIX. He sent...

Targeted Warbling

FIRST, For Beloveds Far and Near: Check out this interview I did with Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter Crooked Letter) and Beth Ann Fennelly (Great With Child) about their new novel THE TILTED WORLD. This is an excellent, entertaining, gorgeous book about how these bright, fragile, hopeful threads of human connection spin out and entwine, even in a world where all that is beloved can be washed away in a moment.

Is anyone else amused that the first time I get asked to do an “Amazon 1 on 1,” there...

The Technophile’s File

The facebook link will get fixed today. It is broken because Tavia, a friend of mine at Morrow (who also happens to be a genius), saw the whiny, fussy entry before this and merged my facebook pages. Now I have only ONE facebook page!

And therefore no reason to fuss. BOO.

You know I love fussing about technology. But also YAY, because now all my facebook is one thing forever. But also BOO because I can’t remember my password to use it, because it’s been so long since I had to sign into facebook...

Do You Like Me? ___Yes. ___No. ___ No, but we are friends anyway. (Check One)

LOOK! I went to SIBA. It’s the Southeastern Indie Bookstore Alliance Tradeshow. SUPER FUN and I dressed correctly. I know because I am dressed JUST like an awesome handseller from a store I love in Athens — Avid.

This is the only outfit I wore at SIBA that I did not get THRIFTING, and I have no pics of me in either of the 6 dollar skirts I wore with various V neck black knit tops. If you were at SIBA and got a pic of me in my skirts, put it on my facebook wall???? PLEASE? Even if I have the c...

Murdle-Turtle

We have had a very wet summer here in Georgia. Umbrellas have proliferated in my house, de-humidifiers the size of VW Beetles are all over my church, and a weird flesh-leafed bog plant is popping up all amongst my fescue. I seriously think it may be lily pads. My lawn is full of LILY PADS.

So I got a lawn service to come in.

They have put up a sign that baffles me. What does this mean? Because to me, this sign says BE AWARE, GANGS OF DIAPER CLAD BABIES ARE KICKING A TURTLE TO DEATH.

Am I to ru...

The Year of Living Thriftorously

First the tour is up. Am I coming to a town near you? Are you coming to the town near you to see me?

If I am NOT coming to a town near you? Well. Now you know. And you can take steps to get the signed, personalized copy of SELS you need to be happy and fulfilled as human being.

Meanwhile, I need a whole new wardrobe. I have almost no clothes that fit me. Literally. I have four outfits I can wear that aren’t yoga pants, but I don’t want to sell a kidney.

After a botched attempt at TJ MAXXini...

FB, B, F, in that Order.

FB (Funly Business): Scott got the button for THE VIRTUAL TOUR up. See it over there? In the sidebar to the right. Hit that button and you can get a signed or personalized hardback first ed first printing of book I TRULY think you (or someone on your Christmas list) will enjoy, signed the day it comes out and sent to you from THE ALABAMA BOOKSMITH.

Bonus tracks: You will be supporting my habit of feeding and clothing my children, supporting a great indie bookstore, AND I will think you are a...

The VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR is GO!

What is The SELS Virtual Book Tour?

You may be saying, I already know what the Virtual Book Tour is, and I want to participate because I am a noble, gorgeous creature, so I will go ahead and click this link right NOW and get down, quick and dirty, to the hot, hot business of bookly commerce.

If you are saying, HMMM what IS the virtual book tour? Please. Read on.

When my new book comes out, I’ll partner with THE ALABAMA BOOKSMITH so that people who cannot come to the real tour due to geography...