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Okay okay, I am guilty of name-dropping. But Jenny's work on Web 2.0 stuff (gaming in particular) is fantastic and I wanted to make sure everyone had heard about the event going on in Virginia next month.

It's called Changing the Way Libraries Do Business: Meeting the Challenges of the Web 2.0 World, and of course the title alone was enough to pique my interest (oh she that loves change for change's sake!). But on top of that, Jenny is the keynote. And there's a raft of additional interesting people slated to speak, too:

*Kate Sheehan from Darien Public Library
*Jamie Coniglio from George Mason University
*Jennifer Howell from Western Maryland Public Libraries
*Karen Calhoun from OCLC

This has been an incredibly busy fall for Not Your Mother's Book Club - and I am sure, for all of you as well. We are going to take a much-needed break in December which means our very last event of the year is coming up on Tuesday the 13th. It's gonna be a pizza party with FOUR great authors - don't miss it!



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Today is the last day of the WBBT - with tons of great interviews:

Loree Griffin Burns at Chasing Ray
Lily Archer at The Ya Ya Yas
Rick Riordan at Jen Robinson's Book Page
Gabrielle Zevin at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Dia Calhoun at lectitans
Shannon Hale at Miss Erin
Alan Gratz at Interactive Reader
Lisa Yee at Hip Writer Mama
Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple at Shaken & Stirred

I'm drawing live at the Cut and Paste tournament for Varoom magazine and Doodle Earth!
Varoom / Doodle Earth Details

Varoom / Doodle Earth at Cut and Paste Digital Design Tournament

Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
Saturday, October 20th 2007, doors open 7pm; Competition from 8 – 11pm
Tickets £10 in advance; £12 on the door
To book your ticket visit www.cutandpaste.com

The AOI www.theaoi.com and Varoom magazine www.varoom-mag.com have teamed up with Squint Opera www.squintopera.com/and Doodlearth www.doodlearth.com/, to bring a live interactive drawing installation to Cut & Paste, part of a global tour stretching from San Francisco to Tokyo, where designers go head to head in an adrenaline-fuelled design competition.


On the night, a cityscape animation film will be screened onto a backdrop. Illustrators Tim Ellis, Rod Hunt, AOI deputy Chair and Miss Led, winner of Secret Wars at Designersblock Illustrate, will add their drawings and doodles to the paper in order to create a painting inspired by the projection's progression. The work will grow and take on a life of its own as members of the public are invited to join in.
Thanks to Sharpies for their fine marker pens.

If you would like more information on the Varoom/Doodle earth event please contact Beth King, Events and Marketing Coordinator on 020 7324 7222 or email [email protected].

So today was Kidquake, a division of the San Francisco literary festival Litquake. Seemed easy enough to do. Take a day off from work. Sleep in until 6:20 (normally I have to get up at 5am). Hit the road for the one hour drive into the city. Maybe an hour plus 20 considering the morning traffic. Okay, an hour plus 30. Nope. It took me 2 hours 10 minutes to get there and the first hour was just trying to get OUT of San jose. There's a reason I go to the day job so very early in the morning - it's so I can skip all the crazy drivers and accidents and delays on the road. ARGH!

But eventually I made it to the San Francisco Public Library. (Thank you Mr. GPS.) There was a parking place RIGHT IN FRONT of the library but I couldn't take it because I couldn't stuff enough coins in it to cover my time inside. Instead I drove around the block a couple of times trying to find the entrance to the underground parking.



Here we all are waiting to be introduced. From left to right:

Emcee: Regan McMahon
me, Maya Gonzalez, Lynn Hazen, Marissa Moss and Henry Neff


What you can't see in the pic above is the fact that my feet don't quite touch the ground.



I have no idea why because I SAW the emcee using the microphone at the podium but when she introduced me (I was first) I went to the microphone right in front of me. Duh! After me, everyone else used the one with the podium. But hey, at least when I stood up, my feet hit the ground.

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I love how interested Marissa Moss looks in my reading! We only had 8 minutes so I really just had time to give a brief overview and then read a few poems


And here's the crew that put it together! 

Me, Deborah Krant (Kidquake producer), Laura Mancuso (Marketing & Publicity at Tricycle Press) and Summer Dawn Laurie (former editor at Tricycle.) I hate seeing this pic of me. Sigh.





This pic was supposedly a flubbed one, I sorta like it. After all, we shake in a quake!


Thanks to Summer's mom for taking all pictures for me.