Look on its works, ye writers, and despair...

[rj_anderson]

Janet Ursel, a fellow fantasy author who was kind enough to accompany me to my first school visit in Ottawa last week, posted this on her blog and it is well worth watching -- if for no other reason than to find out how a book gets put together. But really, the idea of books-on-demand is simultaneously thrilling and harrowing, don't you think? Behold, the Espresso Book Machine:

And here's a couple of pictures of me talking to the crowd at that school visit -- 200 kids at Knoxdale Public School, on April 27th:





When I looked at these photos my first thought was, "Wow, that's a lot of kids," and the second was, "Man, I have really terrible posture." Do they still have those charm schools where you learn to balance a book on your head?

Comments

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

True. In our area, a red tailed hawk would fit the bill nicely (pun not intended!), but large raptors are not so common in England. I did wonder about the "carnivorous" bit, though. Of course, crows rob nests and kill nestlings, but it seemed to me a grown faery would be a bit bigger than that.

Anyway, I'm glad you liked the review. I liked the book. )