Thoughts for Today

I just got Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut. This is a posthumous collection of essays and stories. I really like the picture of Kurt Vonnegut sitting in a chair next to some flowers on the back cover. Unfortunately, I cannot find any public domain images of Kurt Vonnegut.

I also am looking at the April copy of Previews. Previews is the magazine of the comic book industry. It lists all the forthcoming comic books and various parapernalia coming out in May. Most comic book stores carry it to select what they will order for the coming months. It is worth looking at because it lists the bestselling comics, graphic novels, manga, toys, and similar things during the previous months.

Today has been a slow day at the library.

I put Goblin War by Jim C. Hines on hold. It is being billed as light humorous fantasy.

The Last Whale, a blog which is going to be turned into a book in October/November 2008 by Fremantle Press joined me as a freind on Facebook. I think the book is about efforts to end whaling in Australia. The blog has a lot of information on it about Japanese whaling and Greenpeace. http://thelastwhale.blogspot.com/ The Last Whale is also an Entrecard member a part of another social networking tool.

So far, I am finding the Facebook experience to be quite entertaining. It seems to be much more appropriate for me to use than Myspace.

Nikki Leigh asked if I wanted to join her Blog Tour network for authors. It looks kind of interesting. This is it: http://www.nikkileigh.com/blog_tours.htm . I am really not sure if I want to do this yet. I took a look through the different blogs. The majority of the books appear to be vanity presses, self-published material, and romances. I will take a pass at joining the network. It is still a very interesting idea, however.

I still have not done any guest blogger posts. Nor, have I done any interviews of other people. It would be an interesting experience. But, I have not tried it before. I might be open to it. If anyone wants to make a suggestion on the best way to do this, please let me know.