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Anxiety

There are some days when you stop and think LOOK AT ME, I’M THE MAYOR OF ANXIETYTOWN, and there are other days when you realize there aren’t any other days because they’re all like that.

10-minute ballpoint-pen-on-notebook-paper monster of the day.

10-minute ballpoint-pen-on-notebook-paper monster of the day.

I drew a sad monster, but it made Caroline Hooton too sad, so I...

I drew a sad monster, but it made Caroline Hooton too sad, so I added a flying doughnut. Now it’s just a puzzled monster.

"If you’re fired up about this important topic, tweet about it with the hashtag #DiversityatALA (it’s..."

“If you’re fired up about this important topic, tweet about it with the hashtag #DiversityatALA (it’s probably best to use this in conjunction with the official conference hashtag, #alaac14). This is a great way to get buzz going and to ask people to join in on making sure everyone who works at every booth hears this question over and over again. It’s an important one (What are you doing to diversify your list? Does diversity matter to you and your company?), and it’s my belief, at least, tha...

CHOSIN: HOLD THE LINE. Illustrated by my cousin, Thomas Jung. In...

CHOSIN: HOLD THE LINE. Illustrated by my cousin, Thomas Jung. In many ways Tom and I grew up together, and I’ve always had a special place in my heart for him. He’s had a successful artistic career in the video game industry, but he’s pursuing storytelling now, and this is his first graphic novel. I couldn’t be more proud.

The 1978 World Series

A bit sad to know former Dodger pitching phenom Bob Welch died. As one of the world’s most spectacularly unathletic kids, I don’t have a ton of sports-related memories about my dad, but I do remember a couple of trips we took to Dodger Stadium, and I vividly recall watching the 1978 World Series on TV with him at home during our first autumn in New Jersey. I was so homesick for California, and watching the Dodgers play in Yankee territory was jarring, but I still remember Dad talk...

Last Day of School

Before seventh grade I was often a little sad at the end of the school year, not because I didn’t look forward to summer vacation, but because I genuinely loved school and felt good about myself in the classroom setting. Then I was moved up a grade, from sixth to seventh, and everything changed. School became a place that felt unsafe in so many ways, so there was enormous relief at the end of theschool year, if only because I could escape some of my tormenters and my unaccustomed experi...

summerscourtney:So here is some news about my next project...

summerscourtney:

So here is some news about my next project that I have that just went up in Publishers Marketplace!

Courtney Summers’s PLEASE REMAIN CALM, an e-novella sequel to her zombie novel THIS IS NOT A TEST, about the remaining survivors from the first novel, discovering just how high the cost of death is in a post-apocalyptic landscape, to Sara Goodman at St. Martin’s, by Amy Tipton at Signature Literary Agency (World English).

I think THIS IS NOT A TEST is the novel I get the most se...

A question of worth

Sometimes I struggle with feelings of unworthiness and inadequacy. I fear being exposed as fraudulent, ignorant, biased; I fear I won’t be able to rise to the occasion, or meet the standards being set by people I’ve chosen to affiliate myself with. I’d say those fears rear their heads with the greatest force immediately before events like today’s #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel at BookCon, except that today was the first time I’ve ever participated in such an event. Am...

Yes, All Men

Yes, All Men:

chrisroberson:

I’ve mostly kept my mouth shut in this latest round of calls decrying misogyny after the tragedy in Santa Barbara on Friday night, but a variety of reasons. Chief among those reasons is the fact that I am a straight white middle class dude who is the absolute embodiment of “privilege” in American…