Greetings from Charlottesville, VA, where I’m taking part in the VA Festival of the Book, but mostly ensconcing myself in a hotel room for five days, so that I can finally catch up. Other than missing my family terribly, it is awesome. Especially the part where I subsist on packaged food like I’m in my [...]

1. WARNING: Do not, not, NOT look at this SeaWorld penguin cam unless you want to lose at least 20 minutes. We made the mistake of showing it to our daughter right before bedtime, and immediately got sucked into a group thrall, from which we weren’t released until a penguin accidentally knocked over the camera. [...]

From Ernessa: Well, if you’ve been following this blog since the beginning, you know I stan ALL DAY for comic books — especially graphic novels. So when Joshua Irish from “Game On” let me know that he was co-hosting a weekly comic book review show and asked if FaN could pretty please repost, I was [...]

If you have decided to pursue writing as a career, the voices in your head will ask you this question often. “How about if no one likes your story?” Or the more dramatic version: “How about if every one on Earth rejects what you have written?” As far as insidious questions go, this is probably one of [...]

In lieu of an apology for not being around much online or off the last three weeks, I’ll just post this (slightly edited) email that I sent our co-editor, Amy Robinson, this morning: My inbox is currently FUBAR [...] Last big deadline of the season is on Saturday and then, I’m going to be so [...]

Hey-o, Over at Girlfriend’s book club this week, talking about why I tend to get much more worked up about the romantic twists on NEW GIRL than the current state of publishing. Check it out if you’re interested in my opinions about not having a strong opinion on this particular subject. *warning: there are F-bombs [...]

1. If you ever wanted to see vaginas dressed up as superheroes, go’on ahead and click through. I’d say NSFW, but if anyone’s looking at your computer screen closely enough to actually tell what these are, they deserve to see what they see. [The Mary Sue] 2. “Do you make decisions quickly based on incomplete [...]

My alternate title for this post was “Super-Easy Way for Women to Get a Fellow Geek’s Attention.” In any case, click here to purchase this male-geek-bait BSG pilot wings necklace for $32. ~via Fashionably Geek    

So I’m coming out from underneath a crushing February 15th deadline (seriously, who contractually obligates somebody to turn in a project on the day after Valentine’s Day — and what sucker writer agrees to it??? Me, that’s who. [sad face]), to bring you this special, extra lurvely batch of procrastination. Though, seriously, as much as [...]

I’ve talked quite a bit about the many things that happened after my first official date with CH. But in the lead up to Valentine’s Day, I’d like to talk about the stuff that happened before the Friday we went out to dinner six and a half years ago: 1) We met at a dive-bar birthday [...]