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What is the name of my China equivalent? Zhangzhi, or something like that?

One day, I hope soon, there will be a companion volume, and I'll be able to look this stuff up!

Speaking of companion volumes, do any of you know of any companion volumes or guides to the worlds in book series? Here's what I've seen/have/know of:

LYRA'S OXFORD
the companion to the Septimus Heap books
the companion to the Percy Jackson books
the Tolkein companions
a mess of Harry Potter companion books for all ages
A TOUGH GUIDE TO FANTASYLAND by Diana Wynne Jones (edited to add: this isn't a companion to D.W. Jones' work, but more a companion to high fantasy in general--a very ongue-in-cheek one!)

(edited to add: I need titles, folks! Booksellers' search engines aren't real happy when you give them general descriptive terms--they spit back nonsense! Thanks!)

If you know of other such companions to fantasy books/worlds, please let me know! We start work on a Tortall companion this year, and we'd really like an idea of what other people have done!

And I apologize for neglecting you for so long. I have been following the crisis in Iran since the day after the election, because I got caught up after seeing pictures like this:

I've been blogging about it like crazy elsewhere. Also, Random House wanted me to join Facebook, and Facebook has been trying to devour my life. (Back, Facebook, back! The bad guys have burned the bridge over the swamp and now Beka & Co. have to go around!) (Yes, I've been working on MASTIFF, more than anything else.)

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Maeve Binchy is spot on:  just look at my haul:

--hands coned, angular boned, like shaping a small globe

-- reading from a distance too vain to wear glasses in public

-- let go a private burp

--ran her thumb over each of her fingernails as if to check her expensive manicure was still in place

--sucked on his cigarette with two fingers then let it go to enhance the draw

--whole body immobile except for his nodding head

--lantern-jawed

--glasses end of nose, stray scraped hairs clinging to the dome as if hanging over the edge of a precipice

--legs crossed, hands in lap, arms hugged about her

--fingers ran down nose removing the shine

--fingers like opened fans

--ran finger from inner corner of eye along cheek bone, stretching too much skin....

No wait!  That last was what I observed in the mirror....

Happy writing!
 

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Manuscript is in the mail. Well, it's in the e-mail and sent of to my editors Arthur Levine and Cheryl Klein . . .

It was crunch time last night to finish the second BOBBY book. And weird, since the first one's not even out yet. BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY) debuts in September . . .

I've taken to working in the library. Though I love my office dearly, there are, um, a few distractions . . .

And though I love my kids (and dog) dearly, they are a few distractions . . .

. . . especially when it's summer vacation. There should be a law that authors with kids do not have to write in the summer, but will be subsidized.

So here's my view at the library . . .

And here's my set up . . .

And here's how I work on Scrivener, the Mac writing program . . .

And here's how I don't work while at the library. That's my Facebook page. I had posted that I was writing and lots of my FB friends sent me encouraging words, expect for author Barry Lyga . . .

Barry tried to distract me. Ever since he got on Facebook and Twitter, he's tried to get other authors to procrastinate along with him . . .

Later, I worked at home until 3:30 a.m.-ish keying in all my changes . . .

I actually fell asleep while writing. Oh dear. Not a good sign! Well, it's done now. On to the next!

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I wish we didn't have a Canada day on the first of July. I wish we didn't have a Canada day at all. Same thing for the 24th of June, "La fête nationale du Québéc". I wish we didn't have any, on the 24th or on any other day. We have enough bad examples of what nationalism can do, to the South of our borders, and in Europe. We should know at this point in time that nothing good can come out of it. If we want to party we should do it at jazz festivals, comic book festivals, whatever festivals, but not in a misguided celebration over nationhood. Especially when we've got two nations sharing a single country.

I also discovered yesterday that you can pre-order a copy on Amazon! (Book's not out till February, but if you order now it'll ship when it's in stock.)

Paperback
Hardcover

And now that I'm done, I can focus on a couple of other things at hand: I'm speaking at an SVA class tomorrow night, and then next week Dave and I are teaching a 2-day teen comic workshop in Cape May, NJ! I don't know if anyone lives in that area and wants to come, but you need to sign up in advance if you do. The number to call is in the link! I'm looking forward to a few days of being on the shore, too...it'll almost be like a little vacation.

And of course, this weekend is the fourth, which means swimming and barbecue and raspberries off the bush and hanging out with friends, in the backyard which was the model for Stacey's family's yard in BSC#4--if you remember the scene with the kids chasing Louie the collie around and giving him a bath, you've got an idea of where I'll be!

After all of that, it's time to shift gears and work on my next couple of projects. I've got two things I'm excited to work on, although I won't really be able to talk about them for a little while. To tide you over, though, our X-Men manga comes out on August 11. We're hoping to throw a book release party the following week; stay tuned for details!

Hope everyone's having a great summer so far. It finally warmed up around here, and me and my tomato plant are both pretty happy about it.

http://www.girlamatic.com/comics/mell.php

Meanwhile, in The Chronicles of William Bazillion, is that ever really a "plus side"?

Page 144 of Family Man
now online!

Man, two big reveals in as many weeks!  Hearkening all the way back to, hey, page 3.  (Apologies for making you look at things I drew in 2006; I take comfort knowing it’s not nearly as painful for you as it is for me.)

Technically there’s one big reveal and one obscure tip-off.  But let’s not get greedy about it.

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COMMERCE: I’ve finally acquired the last of the stock items (spoons, some of the Lady Parts prints) that were holding back some very late orders on books and prints, especially international orders!  So if you have been patiently sitting on your hands over in the UK or Canada, don’t fear, I haven’t forgotten you.

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NEW STUFF:  I’ve got a new poetry chapbook out.  It’s called Private Island, and it’s for sale in my store at the LOW LOW price of $2.00, which is a mere ten cents for each page of action-packed verse, most of which has never seen the light of the internet before!

There are many flavors in this one, and it’s the prettiest thing I’ve ever made at a copy shop, so snag one at will.

That was the site fellow LAYA Michael Reisman's book launch party for Simon Bloom: The Octopus Effect. (BTW, does anyone else always get "effect" and "affect" mixed up?) . . .

Peepy was quite impressed by the chic-ness of the place. She also loved the food, especially the bookish cakes . . .

Later, she cornered Andrea Brown literary agent Jamie Weiss Chilton, and tried to wrangle book deal . . .

However, Jamie was apprehensive having heard of Peeps' run-in with Curtis Brown agent Ginger Knowlton when Peepy broke agent/author-to-be protocol and tried to slip Ginger a manuscript in the bathroom . . .

Meanwhile, Michael entertained us by juggling and donning his bathrobe to read from his books . . .

Above: Author Betty Birney, on the left, was so moved by Michael's (inexplicable) Irish accent, that she began to sob and had to wipe away her tears.

Good luck with your latest Simon Bloom book, Michael!

(BTW, that's author Amy Goldman Koss lurking in the shadows.)

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