1. Kirkus Reviews closed up shop this week. Susan Wise Bauer has a great opinion on this over at her blog. My writing mentor just got a fabulous review from them a few weeks ago, but this is her eighteenth book and she’s been writing novels and memoirs for almost forty years. I think online blogging (very similar to what I do here and what other friends do around the Web) is the future of book reviewing. I know everyone thinks this may be bad news, but I’m kind of excited. It will once again level the playing field for book publishing. A self-pubbed, as Susan Wise Bauer notes, can sell just as much as a overly lauded book that got a Kirkus Review and is being picked up by librarians all over the country.
2. My husband is on a day hike over in the Olympics (near Forks) and I am staying home. Too cold! He and his buddy (who is in from out of town) are off hiking in beautiful forests and on gorgeous beaches in the bitter cold and I, his less-adventuring wife, am home today nursing a cold. I’m okay with that.
3. Trying to figure out which cookies to serve at our annual culdesac progressive snack/drink fest tomorrow evening. By the time everyone (around forty people) gets to our house, no one is hungry anymore, thus, I must pick some cookies to truly tempt them.
4. I am digging this pink Christmas tree from Making It Lovely. Saw another pink one in West Seattle the other night in a shiny new condo. It look really cool. I would have a turquoise one though. I’m mad about turquoise!
5. Today is proofing and reading and writing day. And sweeping and mopping and cleaning as well. Never a dull moment around here!
Have a good weekend!
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