Monthly Archives: August 2009

Strange as fiction

August 26, 2009
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Crime novelist Lisa Reardon is in jail in Michigan for allegedly shooting her father. According to the Detroit Free Press: Lisa Ann Reardon’s father is in stable condition today as she sits in the Washtenaw County Jail, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. He fled inside the home in the 6300 block of Brand after she shot him at 7:30 p.m. Friday. And after trying “numerous times” to follow him inside, she drove off and was later arrested in Livingston County.

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Senator Ted Kennedy has died

August 25, 2009
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Senator Ted Kennedy has died following his long battle with brain cancer. He was 77 years old. He has done a great deal for this country, and I wish his family well.

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Google Books, The New Rumpelstiltskin

August 22, 2009
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There’s a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he’s not going after the miller’s daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets full of gold. Judging from the panic issuing from home offices and cafes across the country, you’d think he was trying to steal our firstborn. I’m talking about Google Books, and a deal negotiated between the Internet giant and the Authors Guild: the Google Books Settlement. Maggie Shiels of the BBC writes today about the late but noisy outcry from Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon, who protest the settlement...

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Tonight at the Goth Hop: Zombie Lit

August 14, 2009
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Join me tonight at the Verdi Club in San Fran for the Litquake Goth Hop. A number of authors have been asked to channel our inner Satan and write short pieces for the evening; I’m working on mine as we speak. Naturally, I planned the outfit long before I even began thinking about the prose. I’ll be wearing that black leather corset that’s never seen the light of day–you know, one of those impulse buys that seemed so practical at the moment of purchase. Not to mention the tallest, most painful shoes I can find. I hear there will...

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Hassani Campbell’s foster father pleads for boy’s return

August 13, 2009
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Hassani Campbell’s foster father pleads for boy’s return

Louis Ross, the foster father of the 5-year-old boy who disappeared from behind a Rockridge shoe store in Oakland on Monday, went on local television yesterday to plead for the little boy’s return. View the video here. Hassani Campbell was apparently walking from the car to the shoe store–where Ross had gone to open a back door–when he disappeared. When this story was first reported, it sounded as though it might involve some sort of custody dispute, as Ross and his fiancee Jennifer Campbell are trying to adopt the boy, who is the son of Campbell’s sister.

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