He didn’t even have a telescope around his neck

Currently reading: The Prince of Frogs by Annaliese Evans

Last week I started interning for two literary agencies that share office space. Everyone who works there is odd in a good way, has unique tastes and areas of expertise when it comes to books, and is really nice and fun to work with. Even the other interns (there are 6 of us total) are totally fun. Especially when we’re sitting together reading query letters, passing around the ones with the most ridiculous contents, getting second opinions on the ones that seem like they might be worthwhile projects. I wish I could share with you all some of the amazingly stupid things I’ve read over the past two weeks, but unfortunately, I cannot. Not on the interwebz anyway.

Every time I go in there I know more and more that it’s what I want to be doing with my life. Reading manuscripts, talking about books, meeting new people… I’m even “required” to go to an industry schmooze fest with a bunch of Tor/Forge employees next week. At DBA. With Laura. Seriously. How could this non-job get any better? The long and short of it is that it couldn’t (well, I guess if I was getting paid, that might be an improvement, but I’ll take resume-improvement and school credit all the same).

Edited: September 17th, 2009

“A true ballad tells a story of real life.”

I decided, being in the publishing industry and all, that perhaps I should put my blog to use for something related to that. So here it is, my first serious book review. I definitely won’t turn this into an all-reviews-all-the-time blog, but I find it’s a nice outlet to share all the great (and perhaps not so great) stuff I’ve been reading with a wide(r) audience. Oh, also, I decided to post images of me with the book, if possible, rather than use copyrighted pics of the actual cover art from Amazon or wherever. I realize using them probably falls under “fair use” but whatever.

Title: Ballads of Suburbia
Author: Stephanie Kuehnert
Publisher: MTV Books
Length: 368
Age group/reading level: Young Adult (14+)

Summary: The summer before her senior year of high school, Kara nearly died from a heroin overdose. As a freshman, when she moved away from her best friend and then her family fell apart, Kara turned to music, booze, drugs, self-injury, and bad-boy Adrian to make everything better. Between all the parties and concerts, her friends collected their heartbreaking ballads of the moments that defined them. After four years away from her friends and family, Kara returns to Oak Park to confront her past, and to finally write her own ballad.

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Edited: July 23rd, 2009

Linkages

Today’s post is just a bunch of links random stuffs. Mostly things I find fascinating, but you probably won’t. So… enjoy?!

Sci-fi and fantasy authors on cities that have a sci-fi or fantasy feel to them.

Library pron. I want to visit all of these before I die. And also, I want somebody to buy me this book.

White collar criminals sentenced to write books. What a terribly unfitting punishment. As the editorial says, they should be ordered NOT to write books.

You must can do something. Apparently.

Also, I have a blog stalker!  Huzzah!

That is all. Continue on with yr daily lives.

Edited: June 17th, 2009

Making up for missed posts

I totally neglected this poor blog! Feeling super slackery and neglectful, but I know I haven’t written here for good reason, so I don’t feel too guilty. I’ve been way too busy reading. So here’s a very brief recap of the past few weeks.  But first, to make up for the following long, boring block of text, here’s a fun picture (courtesy of Agent M)

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Edited: June 12th, 2009