Congrats to today’s T-shirt winner, Mary Kruger (aka Lucy Ballbreaker of retired Derby Doll fame). She pre-ordered 32 CANDLES and now she’s going to be rocking a 32 CANDLES T-shirt this summer. Want one of your own? Just pre-order the book and let me know that you did, you’ll be entered to win. Speaking of [...]

. a life-in-books by Amy Brown Does anyone watch CASTLE besides me?  In the television show, the eponymous hero, a ridiculously famous and charismatic novelist portrayed by Nathan Fillion, plays a weekly poker game with his literary rivals, James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Stephen J. Cannell.  The authors banter, trade stories and assist with plot [...]

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 274 Time-Travel to the Present If your time-travel journeys to the past hurt Your forays into the future scare You can be back here safe right now with just one conscious breath.

Just in case you haven’t taken the time to meditate on your own adult history, this ought to get the old memory going. Thanks to HONEYSMOKE for the finger point!

. a blogumn by Debra Goykhman I never pictured myself completely geeking out on video games for hours in a day.  I grew up with two brothers who always parked themselves in front of a TV for hours playing the next greatest game and I always shock my head thinking, “What a waste of time.” [...]

… I think you know why. This is basically the last week of season finales, and then I’ll be left with … well, pretty much the same thing I had last summer. I’m planning to pick up ROYAL PAINS for another season. And I’ll probably watch the second season of THE MENTALIST in re-run, not [...]

You know what phrase I love to live? Killing two birds with one stone. Not IRL of course. I don’t do my own bird-killing, and even if I did, I would use stones. That’s just impractical. But proverbially, I’m about killing two birds with one stone all day. So imagine how happy I was to [...]

. a blogumn by Michael Kass While most self-respecting nerds out there settled in to get lost in the byzantine twists and turns of Lost’s final episode (which, from what I could tell from the screams of frustration coming from my neighbor’s apartment, was a bit less than satisfying), I went through my cell-phone looking [...]

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 273 Living in the Past Tense Again  Even as it’s happening I’m looking back on it, describing it As if it’s in the past.

So I bet you didn’t know there were TWO versions of the 32 CANDLES trailer — one to be broadcast without sound at hair and nail salons across the country. And one with the sound. Last week, we debuted the audio version, so I thought it would be fun to throw up just text version [...]