Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

I now have floating bookshelves in my office tree! The secret: Umbra’s ‘Conceal’ bookshelves. Thanks to my husband for his handyman help.
I love my home office. Here’s what it used to look like when the previous owner lived here. Here’s what the rightmost corner (same photo) looks like now; I’ve turned it into my reading [...]

Yesterday I mentioned an article about a woman who was campaigning against kids’ books that didn’t have happy endings. Well, it turns out that Adrienne Small, Clare Hughes and the Happy Endings Foundation were all part of an elaborate hoax, a marketing ploy by ArtScience to promote the Lemony Snicket books (A Series Of [...]

Also see my more recent post: Happy Ending Foundation / Lemony Snicket Hoax: In Poor Taste?
So it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke, but it WAS a marketing ploy…and I admit I was taken in after seeing it on a library news site, hearing about radio reports here and overseas, and reading about it in several [...]

(Updated: ok, it wasn’t April’s Fool’s Joke but it WAS a hoax. See my recent post)
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For those interested, I’ve written a Blathering about Toronto’s Word On The Street event this weekend. Speakers include my sister, Patricia Storms of Booklust and Farzana Doctor (I interviewed Patricia and Farzana earlier this year for blogTO).
More info in my Blatherings today.
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Some of you may already know that I used to run a site for writers called Inkspot. It was one of the first writers’ sites on the Web, and you can read about what happened on the Inkspot Epilogue page.
Many sites still link to Inkspot.com, unfortunately. Which is probably why Xlibris sold (or gave) the [...]