My head has been exploding all week because I’m in that part of the book where I stop futzing around with plot and dialogue and try to make the whole thing work, try to understand the characters who’ve shown up, make sure their actions and their emotions are true and not something left over from [...]

Stupid Sock Creatures by John Murphy tells you how to make bizarre and frightening sock . . . things.
The first 37 pages of the book are about the zen of creature making along with basic skils. The next 65 are detailed instructions on how to make eight specific creatures, Jordan, Owlsley, Red [...]

My friend Meg gives amazing presents which is not why she’s my friend but it helps. Meg is the one who, when stuck on Christmas Eve wrapping Christmas presents for the next day and birthday presents for that night for her daughter, ran out of Christmas wrapping and substituted birthday paper by writing “Jesus” [...]

Since I’m trying to organize my life, I’m also trying to read my way through the books that have accumulated in my TBR pile. And I thought that maybe I’d review the ones I read here because I need to organize this blog, too, and a review thread seems serious and focused. [...]

So the guy I write with wrote a solo novel and it’s very good. At least PW thinks so (even if they can’t spell “Mayer”):
Lost Girls
Robert Doherty. Forge, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1127-6
An alias of prolific bestseller Bob Meyer—whose second novel with Jennifer Crusie, Agnes and the Hitman, is due in August (Reviews, June 4)—Doherty [...]