Jul 24, 2006
Your EQ is 160
50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you’d have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You’ve got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You’re average. It’s easy to predict how you’ll react to things. But anyone could have...
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What? Me Lie? Never.
Jul 6, 2006
Dear Sir or Madam: Could You..?
Today, I sent out a peck of query letters to editors about SPEED KINGS. After being agented for the last 15 months, it felt like turning back the clock. Scary, really. It also felt good to be in charge of my work, which is why I decided to go it alone with this novel. I know that when you’re unagented, publishing moves at speeds that make glaciers change to the fast lane, but I need to test the market... read more
Jul 4, 2006
Freedom of Speech Ends Here
In honor of July 4th, I’d like to point out that there should be some limits on free speech. Rather, there should be be limits on where speech takes place. For example. Yesterday, I went to see Superman. It was a pretty good movie, an opinion shared by another man who was in the theatre at the same time I was. I know this because after the show and a large Diet Coke, I made a pit stop on my way... read more
Jul 1, 2006
Konnichi wa
Last week–or was it yesterday because I’m still jet-lagged–I got back from Osaka, Japan after a two week adventure with two colleagues and a baker’s dozen grad students in Osaka. We spent a week in schools, which included pre-school, elementary, junior high, and high school with a tour of a university. We saw some amazing things and some not so amazing things. In the end, we... read more
David Macinnis Gill is the author of the young adult novels Black Hole Sun and Soul Enchilada, both from Greenwillow Books.