{"id":961,"date":"2012-06-19T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:35:48","slug":"authors-in-news-and-various-things-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Authors in the News, and Various Things I Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d meant to do a book review today, but this past week&#8211;including today&#8211;ended up bursting at the seams with stuff to do, places to go, crap to haul, people to see, and public speaking to suffer through. Suffice it to say that I AM TIRED.&nbsp; Therefore I am offering you these enticing links to amuse and entertain you, since I lack the energy to do so myself. Please to enjoy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-n38SPNjBYyY\/T9_nGacid9I\/AAAAAAAADr8\/MLGZNvurXIY\/s1600\/Writers_Clock_White.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Writers_Clock_White.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>A friend of mine from college sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2012\/06\/18\/writers-clock-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">this giveaway<\/a> and said simply &#8220;you need this.&#8221; I took one look at it and. WANT. Every writer should have a Writer&#8217;s Clock, and, gosh, it even has Adult Beverage Time on it. It&#8217;s perfect. Just look at it. And it couldn&#8217;t be easier to enter the contest. <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2012\/06\/18\/writers-clock-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\">GO DO IT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>YA author Megan Kelley Hall wrote a heartfelt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/megan-kelley-hall\/bullying-no-more-fear_b_1568785.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece on bullying for the Huffington Post<\/a>. She talks about her fears, her growing-up years, and what we can all do to help confront bullying. &#8220;One by one by one, we will stop the bullies and we will save lives.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Here&#8217;s another Thing I Want: John Scalzi&#8217;s new book, <i>Redshirts<\/i>. Our blog bud Sheila Ruth wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.wandsandworlds.com\/2012\/06\/book-review-redshirts.html\" target=\"_blank\">great review<\/a> of it, and now I want to read it even more. (Luckily, a friend of mine has already bought it and I&#8217;ve got second dibs on borrowing it.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>You know we loves us some Cover Chatter. Coverfail is always a major topic of conversation around here, and we particularly like it when there are good-quality, well-designed, diverse YA book covers that don&#8217;t just feature the same generic &#8220;pretty white girl&#8221; over and over again. Ellen Oh feels the same way, and contributed a must-read post for Racialicious on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2012\/06\/06\/why-the-pretty-white-girl-ya-book-cover-trend-needs-to-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why The Pretty White Girl YA Book Cover Trend Needs To End<\/a>.&#8221; Go, Ellen! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d meant to do a book review today, but this past week&#8211;including today&#8211;ended up bursting at the seams with stuff to do, places to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,7,60,10,86],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-book-news","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}