Book News
by Marshall, July 4, 2007 12:40 PM
Patriotic Book News: Coming to you with sparklers in hand, fireworks exploding and the sounds of Francis Scott Key blaring in my ears; I can only ask myself one question... what the hell am I doing at work today? The blogosphere never sleeps, my friends. Just remember that while you are eating your hot dogs and BBQ potato chips! - The True Meaning of Freedom: Lewis "Scooter" Libby is enjoying his 4th, I am sure... Maybe he will deign to pen another book as a follow-up to his classic 1996 suspense novel, The Apprentice.
Best to find productive use of time when you're on "probation." Good advice for Paris Hilton as well? Hey, I'm feeling a new book display idea coming on!
- Free Money: Kudos to you, Summer Wood. Author of the "critically acclaimed" novel Arroyo, she is the recipient of the recent 2007 Literary Gift of Freedom Award, a $50,000 grant to further a woman's artistic vision. Wood is using the money to support herself while she finishes up her new novel, puts together a book of short stories, and buys a truckload of Budweiser tall-boys for thirsty bloggers. (Okay, I made that last part up.) Funded by A Room of Her Own, a non-profit organization inspired by Virginia Woolf, it is the largest grant of its kind. They don't have a non-gender specific blogger award... yet.
- Now, that's a summer vacation: Author Mark Peter Hughes is taking his show on the road, literally (I'm so punny). Published in March, his YA novel, Lemonade Mouth is enjoying a 26-city tour in Hughes' 1996 Honda Odyssey ? with his entire family, a wife and three kids, in tow.
[He] says, "the whole point is to have fun. We have two major goals: to promote the book and to have fun as a family. We're fitting it all in. We're going to take the kids to Disney World, to the Grand Canyon and to wine country in California. I'm thinking his next book will be a horror novel, where a seemingly harmless father and author snaps on a family road trip and...
Now go out there and eat some watermelon, people! Sheesh!
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