User:	coppervale
	Date:	2009-11-09 14:22
	Subject:	The Tour Continues - With An Ice Cream Book Party!!!
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Since the SHADOW DRAGONS signing event at the Barnes & Noble Desert Ridge takes place on the night before a certain author's (ahem-hem) tenth thirtieth birthday, we're going to turn it into a Book Signing Ice Cream Party!

Bring your kids! Bring your books! I'll be signing, sketching, and discussing the proper way to construct an ice cream sundae. Is this a full service author tour, or what?

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James A. Owen
The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Shadow Dragons

	User:	victorianist
	Date:	2009-11-09 19:53
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I want one that's humble and sharp.

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2009-11-09 11:04
	Subject:	Found it!
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Here's the other UNDER IN THE MERE piece that I'm putting up for sale. There are seven pieces total (with my favorites being the one with the Chinese Theater, and the one with the Questing Beast). Offers can be sent to my email address at coppervale at frontiernet dot net.

	User:	book_icons (posted by hypnotized_moon)
	Date:	2009-11-09 16:39
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[001-010] Emily Blunt
[011-016] Rupert Grint
[017-029] Daniel Radcliffe
[030-054] Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed & Kellan Lutz @ Glamour UK
[055-058] Nikki Reed
[059-103] New Moon
[104-146] Skins

TEASERS


There is no place like home when you got no place to go. @ tomorrowbleeds

User:	xkcd_rss
Date:	2009-11-09 05:00
Subject:	Sympathy
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http://xkcd.com/660/

	User:	olivia_circe
	Date:	2009-11-08 21:29
	Subject:	yuletide letter
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( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2009-11-08 22:11
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question for all you folks not currently residing in the united states :

i am no longer a regular smoker. however, i do enjoy the occasional djarum black clove when the fancy strikes-- usually when i'm drinking, but other times too. really i just love the smell and the taste, they're definitely a weakness right alongside 70% dark chocolate and really good gin. :3

so thanks to the US banning flavored cigarettes, they're pretty much extinct as far as walking into a store and buying them goes. the link above seems to be telling me that a pack is $22 to order them from the site-- which, not gonna lie, i'm not above spending since i'd know i'd have to parcel them out and they'd be like a treat or luxury thing. but i'm wondering if it might not be cheaper for me to try and get them other ways-- say, if any of you lovely folks would be willing or able to let me paypal you some money to buy me a few packs and toss them in the mail to me. they're not illegal to *have* in the US, they're just illegal to *sell*, so there wouldn't be a customs issue as far as i could see-- unless any of you know differently on that score, in which case please do enlighten me.

i'm willing to do just about anything in exchange; write you drabbles, mail you back a bath bomb or two from lush, whatever you like. just lemme know if any of you can find them cheaper than $22 a pack, and let's negotiate. :3 ilu guys!

(ps, i still want more prompts on the outtakes meme! and no, i'm not going to stop until more of you tag. XD)

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2009-11-08 20:09
	Subject:	UNDER IN THE MERE - Original Art Sale Heads-up!
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I'm going to be offering several of the original art pieces from Catherynne Valente's novella UNDER IN THE MERE for sale in the next day or two.

The cover was Cat and Dimitri's wedding present. DEATH, THE LOVERS, and THE FOOL were given to the publisher to use as raffle prizes, and  WHEEL OF FORTUNE was given as a gift. So the ones which will be available are the last three on this gallery page and the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth pieces on this gallery page plus the GALAHAD illo (in the bar with the Grail) which I can't seem to locate at the moment.

I'll be taking offers in the $100-$150 range. Interested parties can comment here or email me at coppervale at frontiernet dot net.

	User:	marjorieinchina
	Date:	2009-11-08 16:03
	Subject:	glasses & pails
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I was talking today to Susan, one of the teachers here whom I first met when she stayed with my family in the states, and I told her that one of the things I learned about teaching this summer was how much knowledge and understanding of a subject I need to have in order to explain just some of it to a group of students. It's not good enough to understand the material as well as the students are meant to understand it. Susan told me a Chinese saying: If you want to give your students a glass of water, you need to have a pail of it. I think that sums it up very well.

	User:	book_icons (posted by sallymn)
	Date:	2009-11-08 10:20
	Subject:	A Handful of Icons from Books Covers...
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All from "The Medieval Murderers" books, just a little... twisted :)

01. 02. 03.

More this way...

	User:	book_icons (posted by ch4ndler)
	Date:	2009-11-07 03:01
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Icons:
01 - 38 Bones
39 - 46 Lost
47 - 54 Friends
55 - 80 Charmed
81 - 100 Pushing daisies
101 - 112 Mary Poppins ♥♥
113 - 121 Sailor Moon
122 - 128 Carmen Consoli

Sneak peak




the whole package here @ inrerumnaturae
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	User:	book_icons (posted by peuvaindesosse)
	Date:	2009-11-06 13:45
	Subject:	Babies Part Deux, and Banners
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	User:	book_icons (posted by copperknob)
	Date:	2009-11-06 16:42
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Astrid Lindgren, A Swedish Love Story, Barbie and the Rockers, Elsa Bescow, Alexander Skarsgård faces, Enid Blyton, Jean Jullien, My Melody, The Great Gatsby, The Moomins, Vintage Christmas



In my journal!

User:	xkcd_rss
Date:	2009-11-06 05:00
Subject:	Lego
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http://xkcd.com/659/

	User:	book_icons (posted by dazzling09)
	Date:	2009-11-06 02:46
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ICONS
[001 - 005] Blake Lively
[006 - 039] Emma Watson
[040 - 059] Harry Potter
[060 - 062] Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
[063 - 070] Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner
[071 - 099] Kristen Stewart
[100 - 113] Robert Pattinson
[114] Taylor Lautner
[115 - 152] Twilight

Preview


CLICK @ dazzling09

	User:	wurds (posted by yoella)
	Date:	2009-11-05 20:08
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"We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've no idea."

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2009-11-05 12:36
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my yuletide signups are done at last-- only took me about two and a half hours to do. hmph. so much for finishing my taxon app today. ;_; ( for the record, i signed up for... )

it's thursday already. i'm hungry. will be putting on V for Vendetta as background to my afternoon, because it is the fifth of november, indeed. even now, several years after i saw this movie for the first time, it still brings me to tears in places (probably not hard to guess which ones) and leaves me with an unshakable bittersweet feeling. i adore it for its ability to do that to me over and over, probably more than almost any other movie i can think of.

oh, and you all should go prompt me for outtakes from my fics. come on, this is your chance to have your very own writing slave, lol. do eeeeeeeet.

♥

	User:	coppervale
	Date:	2009-11-05 09:05
	Subject:	Spread the word, get a free DRAGONS shirt!
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The "Read HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS For Free!" promotion ends next Monday - so I'd like to make a big push before this weekend to make sure as may people as possible know about it and get a chance to read the book online for free before it disappears. So I'm enlisting my current readers to help me do that.

Sometime in the next 48 hours, write about the promotion wherever you post online (facebook, livejournal, blogger, wherever) and include the link:

http://promo.simonandschuster.com/dragons/

	User:	book_icons (posted by peuvaindesosse)
	Date:	2009-11-05 00:52
	Subject:	Tamora Pierce Icons
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Yay..Its almost 1am, i think it took me 3 hours to finish this...i kept getting sidetracked..
anyways --->


I think Tobe looks soooo cute!


More Here @ Peuvaindesosse

	User:	betweenthebliss
	Date:	2009-11-04 22:37
	Subject:	GODDAAAAAAAAMN.
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SO BIG BANG IS DONE HOLY GOD YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. and because all of you are so amazing and supportive and wonderful for putting up with me throughout this insanity, i present for you all a meme that requires almost no effort on your part and will result in me writing more fic. XD

THE OUTTAKE MEME!

so you know that scene you always wanted to see in that fic i wrote? that missing chapter that would've just made your day to read? now's your chance to let it see the light of day. prompt me with an outtake or deleted scene from any of my fics, a "what happened next" or "what happened before", "the next day" or "five years later", and i will write a drabble answering the prompt. i'll take prompts for anything on the master list of my fic including the drabbles!

my responses will mostly be short, but if the inspiration takes me i might write longer pieces (and some of you have probably picked up by now on the fact that 'drabble' to me is several hundred words, lol).

zoppity