Everybody loves the Farmer's Daughter. She's one of those great stock characters of literature (and the subject of more than a few dirty jokes, usually involving a Traveling Salesman). Depending in the needs of the narrative, she can be plucky, optimistic, and naïve, or seductive, manipulative, and dangerous. One of my favorite versions of the [...]
We're over at Jan and Randy's for veggieburgers and the baseball game. I'm having a New Belgium Lips of Faith Super Cru. Super Cru pours ruby-golden with a full, quickfalling head leaving tendrils of lacing. Crisp pearskin on the nose. Sweet and fruity up front, bright and boozy with a quick Fat Tire bitter along [...]
This was a good afternoon to sit and read, so I indulged in a little non-work-related reading, picking at a my perennial pair of voluminous tomes: Wise and Fraser's Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural and Michael Shea's The Autopsy and Other Tales. These are heavy books, 2 lbs, 1.8 oz for Wise and [...]
So Jennifer figured out what to do with the money. We're donating it to the Sonoma County Public Library Foundation, along with the following note: "This donation represents $1 for each book we read in 2009 - an accomplishment that would not have been possible without our public library system. Thank you!"
What happens when an independent publishing company with somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred and fifty titles decides it's time to finally move out of the garage and into a warehouse? Short answer: CHAOS! Last Thursday, the decree came down from the top. We were moving. That weekend. Wheels had been in motion for [...]