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Any collection of essays by Mark Twain.

Wow, lots of really great ideas. I'm afraid it didn't quite work that way for me. It was more like a word association test. When I saw the question, the first suggestion that popped into my head was "They're Mine and You Can't Have Them." Maybe I wasn't cut out for bookselling after all.

I will risk turning it back into something he might have imagined by having a little rant about some other forums I belong to. I participate in forums where writers post drafts for critique, seek career advice, etc. The answers are often lengthy and well thought out, and clearly took some...

I find them remarkably accurate, but only if I give them an innuendo not suitable for an open forum.

It's a good sign when kids can express things when they go through that kind of phase. A friend of mine--a single father--once provoked his children into marching around him with protest signs: "Daddy! Stop being evil!" "No more evil daddy!" and from the little one, "No! No! No! No!" The...

One of my favorites is the first line of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, especially when read out loud: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy... To me, the beauty of it is that the first line can be reduced to this...

Stranger in a Strange Land is more of a commentary than his other books. It's his classic that reaches beyond s.f., and beyond an s.f. readership. I group it with Brave New World.

Clue: He's the fourth. Besides, read the book. It's excellent.

Hair. Makeup. Clothes. Shoes. Ok, actually my friends and I talk about how much we loathe women's magazines and chick lit.

Married by Common Law a year and a half. Our dates always included a stop at a bookstore; now we read to each other. We're almost through the Arabian Nights; the Odyssey is next.

For bus rides, etc., my husband prefers to read tattered paperbacks, tearing off the pages as he goes, so that the books he's carrying gets lighter and lighter, and the top page is always the one to resume reading on (no need for a bookmark). I've seen people looking at each other nervously...

I skim non-fiction, or just use the index to target what I really need. But fiction I read word for word. When I try to skim fiction, I always miss the key to the whole thing, so it just isn't worth it.

I write coming-of-age novels. What I really want to write is poetry.

Belated, but hey-- Happy birthday. Don't look at this--enjoy your vacation instead!

Just kidding.

Oh dear The title The Book Forum has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title. My full name has a 14.6% chance. :(

Ray Bradbury.

I think it was a dreadful romance book that made me think, "I could do that. I could do that better." So I suppose some unnamed romance writer inspired me to write. I think the main influences on my writing style are Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, and Kurt Vonnegut, not that I actually attain...

People give me plants, apparently as some kind of capital punishment--for the plants, that is.

The title for my latest novel has a 63.7% chance of being a bestseller. Too bad I got another rejection for it just yesterday.