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Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat to dis­cuss FIRESTORM by David Klass. Date: 3/21/07Time: 9:00 PM East­ernURL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php Here’s more about FIRESTORM: “His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn’t bro­ken the high school rush­ing record that night, he never would have known and noth­ing would …

I’ve man­aged to read my mar­i­nat­ing man­u­script twice since unwrap­ping it.  As promised, I read with­out a pen or pen­cil, and on the first run, I only wrote down com­ments two times.  Both com­ments were for new ideas that popped in my head as I read, and I knew I would for­get them later.  On …

I’ve posted the tran­script for last night’s ALAN Online Book Club Chat at http://alan-ya.org/chat_sandpiper.pdf for any­one inter­ested.  Thanks to all the lj-ers who joined in the fun and remem­ber that Ellen Wit­tlinger her­self will be join­ing us on 2/28 for a Q&A about her work.

Obvi­ously, my blog is in the gut­ter. thunderchikin’s Word Usage 1. scro­tum (63) 26. with (7) 51. month (4) 76. mod­els (3) 2. to (42) 27. do (7) 52. tagged (4) 77. maybe (3) 3. and (40) 28. them (7) 53. it’s (4) 78. online (3) 4. a (40) 29. not (7) 54. new (4) …

I went to a place today. They locked the door behind me. I wore the uni­form they gave me, the way that they told me. I sat where they told me. Did the job they assigned me. Ate what they told me When they told me. Exer­cised in the yard, Twenty min­utes on the grounds …

pro­fes­sor­nana  will be there, too. “We’re start­ing some­thing new at ALAN Online. Join the ALAN Book Club and become part of a new online group of read­ers unlike any other on the whole planet! Here’s how it works. Once a month, the third Wednes­day to be pre­cise, at 9 PM East­ern Time, we will meet …