Publishers often hold seasonal previews to get librarians and educators excited about upcoming titles. These are what Elizabeth Bird (AKA Fuse #8) often reports on, like this one. But normally you have to live close to the publisher to attend, which usually means New York City. But this year, Scholastic did something pretty cool. They did their Fall 2010 preview as a webcast. That way, librarians all over the country were able to tune in and get in on the excitement.
I mention it here because David Levithan had some very nice things to say about The Clockwork Three. You can watch the webcast here. My book comes up around 37:40, but I’ve had some difficulty with the player jumping to that spot. The slider bar looks like it’s there, but the time below doesn’t match. Anyway, it made me pretty happy.
I spent some time yesterday working on a new look for the site. I’ll probably be fidgeting a bit with it today as well. If you follow my posts in a feed reader, you won’t notice anything, but if you visit the site, you might see a glitch here and there until construction is completed.
Note: this is not to imply in any way that I am proficient at building anything on the internet. ”Construction” for me is more along the lines of “how can I get this free Wordpress theme created by someone much smarter than me to do what I want it to do?”
You may remember the SWAT house next door to mine. You know, the one that looked like this after the police department used it for training exercises one morning:
Well, it is sadly no more. After the police department had their way with it, a demolition crew got their turn, as recorded in the video below:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFpmJm8Eyt4[/youtube]
All that remains of the home is what you see here:
R.I.P.
SWAT House
