Word Count Books Blog

Nerdapalooza, and a quick take on DC's tabloid comics

Tod Caviness — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:46:16 -0400

Where my nerds at? Hopefully I'll find out in a few hours, when I leave work to attend the Nerdapalooza pre-party tonight over at A Comic Shop. Free beer, pizza and skinny people rapping about old-school Nintendo: this is as...

Bulwer-Lytton contest winners

Tod Caviness — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:03:20 -0400

How could the Bulwer-Lytton contest winner announcements pass me by? This thing is a literary holiday for me. Every year, I mean to send in some of my high school short fiction, even though it could never compete with prose...

Greg Dawson at Barnes & Noble tonight

Tod Caviness — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:02:35 -0400

A little in-house love today for the Sentinel's own Greg Dawson. The consumer columnist will be at the Barnes & Noble on 2418 Colonial Drive today at 7 p.m., signing copies of his new book Hiding in the Spotlight: A...

Neil Gaiman in a bathtub

Tod Caviness — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:36:58 -0400

Now that I have you ladies' attention ... But no, seriously: It's Neil Gaiman in the bathtub, courtesy of this delightfully odd interview with his girlfriend Amanda Palmer by comedienne Sara Benincasa. Sara actually spends much of the time plugging...

Picoult judges for Good Housekeeping

Tod Caviness — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:01:25 -0400

I'm not typically one to drop in a press release, but we have our share of Jodi Picoult fans out there - and so does Good Housekeeping, apparently. Jodi Picoult's judging their first short story contest for the 125th anniversary...

Michael Connelly interviewed

Tod Caviness — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:17:31 -0400

Here's the first of the glossy Bookstudio interviews I've actually watched all the way through: a sitdown with crime writer Michael Connelly. Not so much because of his writing, which is solid enough. Certainly not because of the worshipful Will...

Online Sites Help Solve "What To Read" Dilemma

Rebecca Swain — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:01:24 -0400

Wow, I think I actually wrote a headline there. With information in it. I'm certainly hitting on some of the procrastination crack, considering this is my second post in so many days, but a post at Lifehacker got me thinking...

Poetry and newspapers: Two troubled mediums unite

Tod Caviness — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:11:03 -0400

Grr. I'm sick of waiting for Austin Kleon's book to come out so I can re-hip everybody to his addictive Newspaper Blackout Poems. The compilation has been pushed back to February 2010, and the way things are going, the concept's...

Where Writers Write

Rebecca Swain — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:13:33 -0400

OMG! Who is this woman and why is she posting on this blog? Har har. Har. Yes, yes, I've emerged from the big black hole of working on a novel to share this fun site: Where I Write, a photo...

Father's Day book ideas

Tod Caviness — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:56 -0400

With Father's Day coming up, I'm more resolved than ever to get my Dad a couple books. I can't exactly argue with the statistics and noise proclaiming that guys just don't read novels anymore - my Dad's a perfect example,...