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A Conversation in Spam
My blog’s spam filter blocks all kinds of interesting comments, which are typically listed as being authored by an apparently verbal and sometimes intelligent pharmaceutical. Usually, the comments are along the unintelligible lines of, “qkweyfpewlku…@#$%!34.” But lately, I’ve had some rather coherent comments that actually started to make my spam queue sound like an online…
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LeVar Burton
Neal Conan recently interviewed the actor and former host of Reading Rainbow for Talk of the Nation on NPR. I really enjoyed their conversation, and loved what Mr. Burton had to say about the role of reading in the lives of children, and the mission of the show. This quote summed it up nicely: “Sesame…
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You laugh now, but wait till the zombie apocalypse!
A team at the University of Ottawa has contributed a groundbreaking paper to the study of infectious disease: When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection. Yes, zombie infection. From the abstract: “We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions.…
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What's in a name?
After much brainstorming, emailing, considering, and discarding, my book officially has a title. All the necessary people have signed off on it, so I can tell you here. My debut novel is called: The Clockwork Three I really like it. The challenge was coming up with something that worked for the whole book. I came…
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SCBWI 2009
Over the weekend, I was in LA for the annual summer conference of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and can I just say that I had an absolute blast! Seriously, I love writers. And I believe that as solitary an activity as writing is, writers need other writers. We learn from each…
The blog of author Matthew J. Kirby
