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In the flurry of coverage following his death, I was reminded of this advice for writing a short story: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character...

Kurt is up in Heaven now. I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We had a memorial services for Isaac a few years back, and at one point I said, “Isaac is up in Heaven...

They sound like the students knew about the contest. Kind of a so-bad-it's-good challenge.

Huxley, study this: http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/Keables/KeablesGuide/PartFour/Commas.htm

In her fun little book, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, June Casagrande includes a chapter titled "The Comma Denominator--Good News: No One Knows How to Use These Things," and makes a convincing case with excerpts from standard grammar books that disagree with each other. Just sayin'.

"Anything but a book," she said. "I have one."

Actually, I had fun watching the movie. Al Gore was charming.

Ray Bradbury reworked Fahrenheit 451 into a stage play. Check it out.

Further thank-yous, poppy, flor, and ds. Yes, the incubation continues apace. I really didn't have much morning sickness. Mostly, food just seemed very unappealing. Very. The avatar is just me smiling, and with less theatrical makeup. I have simplified that kind of thing lately.

Market them! The maternity market is evergreen! As you know. Especially "Spare me the horror stories." Omigod I need that one. Now. Badly.

Oh come on it wasn't that bad. Except maybe the t-shirts. But hey, I'm going to need all the big t-shirts I can get pretty soon, right? If only they didn't have all those stupid expressions on them. We already know what's on board, how it got there, etc., ok?

Thank you all! The plush bookworm was last year. This year the theme was gag gifts having to do with maternity. :rolleyes:

I'm excited, I'm excited, I'm excited! Er...eh-heh...:o Nothing to see here, folks. Just go ahead back to what you were doing.

Abebooks gives you an idea of a used or rare book's retail value. Most of the listings are entered by professional booksellers, after all, so you're going to get the high end of price ranges--always higher than the price that an individual will get when selling a book herself. However, if...

Thank you for your replies. The idea of spreading the books out was a good one, except that we own more books than anything else. We'd end up distributing the other stuff among the books instead. We're going with small boxes, quite a few of them in fact. About a hundred I think. At one...