May 29th. 6:30pm. Jefferson Market Library. New York, New York.
- Diana Peterfreund - Across a Star Swept Sea
- Suzanne Young - The Program & Just Like Fate
- Cat Patrick - Just Like Fate
- Cristin Terrill - All Our Yesterdays
- Ann Stampler - Where It Began
- Leila Sales - …
Come meet Cristin Terrill, Elizabeth Scott & dozen other fantastic YA authors at Teen Author Carnival during BEA!
Sometimes you just need a picture of a baby bat.
Brace yourselves, it’s time for another visit to the Department of Debilitatingly Awesome Cuteness as we meet Blossom the bat in Queensland, Australia:
Blossom is a Blossom Bat who was rescued after a suspected cat attack and taken to Bat Conservation & Rescue Queensland where, if these photos are any indication, she was lovingly cared for by Louise Saunders.
“Blossom Bats are nectar specialists which feed and groom themselves with the aid of their long tongues. They are known to hover in front of flowers as they forage and are important pollinators of many rainforest plants. A baby at the time of arrival, the little bat was fed a nectar mix recipe and the occasional milk formula. Blossom gradually gained weight and began to practice flying during the night. Often she would dart in and out of rooms and even hover above Louise as she slept before retiring to her little brown bag at dawn.”
We’re pleased to report that the impossibly cute Blossom completely recovered and was eventually released back into the wild on Macleay Island in Queensland, Australia.
Head over to ZooBorns to learn more about Blossom Bats and view even more photos (and video!) of Blossom.
The cover for Chimes at Midnight, the seventh book in the October Daye series (forthcoming from DAW Books on September 3rd, 2013). Somehow I missed reblogging this cover a week and a half ago when Seanan first released it, but I still love it!
This still bothers me. Perhaps that’s why it inspired one of the longest conversations I’ve ever had on Twitter (with Cristin and the lovely Tiffany Trent).
So, the other day on Twitter, I made what turned out to be a VERY CONTROVERSIAL statement:
I was watching The Empire Strikes Back at 3am because I couldn’t sleep, as you do, and maybe it was my fatigue but my EYES WERE SUDDENLY OPENED.
Luke can’t possibly have been on Dagobah with him for…
Orbit Books art director Lauren Panepinto designs another amazing cover for Parasite, the debut title in Mira Grant’s new duology (release date October 29, 2013).
Favorite Authors ♥ Claudia Gray
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is a physical book thing! My publisher posted photos of it here. It is so thick! 280+ pages!
… yes, I dedicated it to my fellow girl geeks.
NCPGW will be out from First Second Books in May. If you are attending the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, it will be debuting there!EDIT: oh, stupid me forgot! The cover was coloured by my amazing friend Noreen who is amazing at colours!
If you live in New York, you probably know that apartment space is worth its weight in gold. Therefore any furniture that is compact, yet stylish is always welcome. With that in mind, designer Athanasia Leivaditou of Studio NL has created the “1.6 SM Of Life”, a desk that turns into a compact bed, which was inspired by her “experiences while studying and working in New York.”
During the day, the lid of the desk is pulled down in order to create more space. However at night, the front facade comes down to form the base and mattress of the bed. The right facade also slopes so that it can function as a headrest. The left side functions as a storage area. It’s also surprisingly compact at 2m x 0.8m x 0.8m, although the design varies depending on personal preference.
Speaking about her design, Athanasia said: “The main concept was to comment the fact that our lives are shrinking in order to fit into the confined space of our office. Eventually I realized that each civilization may have a very different perception of things depending on its social context. For example this desk could be used for a siesta or for a few hours of sleeping at night between deadlines.”
The prototype took a month to conceptualize and build and was semi-inspired from the exhausting working hours of Athanasia’s classmates that did not have an apartment close to the university.
“My classmates were putting chairs together in order to take a nap during the night at the graduate school. As such, the desk can be converted into a bed for the hectic schedule of the contemporary working man (or woman).”
via shoeboxdwelling.com and inhabitat
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The contest is open through Valentine’s Day, and the winner will be chosen at random on Friday, February 15th. I can only mail to the US and Canada at this time. Happy reblogging!
I would have a collection like this.
How to Abandon Ship (1942)
How to Abduct a Highland Lord (2007)
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)
How to Avoid Intercourse With Your Unfriendly Car Mechanic (1977)
How to Be an Ocean Scientist in Your Own Home (1988)
How to Become Extinct (1941)
How to Boil Water (1976)
How to Break Out of Prison (2003)
How to Bribe a Judge (2002)
How to Buy an Elephant (1977)
How to Deep-Freeze a Mammoth (1986)
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (1979)
How to Embalm Your Mother-in-Law (1993)
How to Get a Gorilla Out of Your Bathtub (2006)
How to Hold a Crocodile (1981)
How to Label a Goat (2006)
How to Ride a Tiger (1983)
How to Run a Bassoon Factory (1934)
How to Tell a Blackbird From a Sausage (2007)
How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist (2007)
How to Travel With a Salmon (1994)
How to Trick or Treat in Outer Space (2004)
How to Wreck a Building (1982)The librarians have kept a list of amusing names and titles since 1971; Eric v.d. Luft published a selection in 2008 as The Inscribed List: Or Why Librarians Are Crazy. “We librarians don’t go deliberately looking for these little nuggets of delight,” he writes. “We don’t have to. They just appear.”
“The author’s intricate portrayal of witchcraft—including its theories, rules, spells, and history—raises this novel a notch above others in the genre, and Nadia is an appealing heroine as she juggles personal pain and looming supernatural disaster.”
— Publishers Weekly on Claudia Gray’s Spellcaster
The paperback cover for SHADOWS CAST BY STARS, out June 4th!
Cristin Terrill’s new business cards, which are almost as awesome as her book.
