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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Which Author Will You Meet?


Meet The Author is a website out of the UK where you can see your favorite author talk for a minute or two about their book.
*It doesn't work well in C2S - it stutters - so try it outside C2S if you can!

I bet you can't guess who I watched. Or maybe you can. But only because he asked me to.

It sounds like it would be a tough assignment: "The author...sits and talks straight to a camera for a minute or so. It’s all one continuous take, no editing, so it’s sort of raw and stumbly, but real." You mean, if you mess up, there's no going back? Yikes!

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Too Many Secrets...

In Shannon Hale's new book, River Secrets. Razo comes into his own in this book, taking a central role in a way that his friends did in Hale's earlier books, Goose Girl and Enna Burning. You've really got to read the first two books to understand why Razo has to cover for his friend Enna when a burned body is found. Obviously, if Enna is killing with her magical power again, Bayern's peace mission to neighboring country Tira will be threatened. Can Razo keep it secret long enough? And what is the rest of his own mission on this trip?