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Georgetownbooks

  1. Happy that Francis Slakey is on the May Indie Next List Preview of "Great Reads": news.bookweb.org/news/may-2012-…
  2. Booklab to submit radio segments, especially for regional stations. Will we get on? Maybe if we feature you -- send ideas!
  3. Jessie Willcox Smith, 9/6/1863, said she "was born not in the month of September, but in the month of Clematis" ("The Red Rose Girls," 10).
  4. @LibraryJournal re spoilers. Wikipedia is notorious for this. DM if you want background on my experience with Stoppard's Arcadia.
  5. Turned on location finder because I don't mind if Twitter knows where I am, but it thinks I'm in Lee, VA... Big Brother indeed.
  6. Like Twitter much better when I work from the web page... it was the interface that had grown annoying, not the product.
  7. Taking faculty to university press booths at APSA tomorrow... met w/Yale editor yesterday, tomorrow MIT, Harvard, Duke, Chicago.
  8. A grad school friend, Phil Plait, who writes as The Bad Astronomer, is going to TV: http://is.gd/dJLBt
  9. Focusing on a 12-week schedule for the articles-only group. Booklab works on books, but we've gone crazy for journals, too...
  10. Caetano Veloso... just sayin' (good music when it's cold outside).
  11. Is there a connection between prewriting and hypnosis? Robert Boice thinks so. http://is.gd/4ZJYP
  12. @JenHoward -- The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett (1748), a picaresque quasi-naval adventure in 1st person. Funny.
  13. @JenHoward, how about - A fluctuating measure of how many times peer journals cite your core scholarly content in the most recent 2 years?
  14. Treadmill desks are the best! I'm walking on mine slowly now while doing research for a scholarly article. http://is.gd/4UfAA
  15. @StephenCoonts, when are you coming back to Georgetown University to teach us more about thrillers? You were a hit last time.
  16. Getting ready to work at Oktoberfest today (I'm on beer taps, stand back!), but thinking books as always. http://is.gd/3Ubgw
  17. I'm loving internet life now that Leechblock is in it. A nifty add-on for Firefox controls the time you spend at sites: http://is.gd/3QkqF
  18. Thanks to @Scoutliterary for the name check!
  19. Just interviewed Dr. Janet Mann, a dolphin expert, for radio, and learned how female dolphins become spongers: http://is.gd/3xrQc
  20. Blogging our way through a how-to-publish-articles book. A cwazy amount of work, but so worth it. http://is.gd/3xrJW