Poetic License

When I pick up a new poetry book
I always glance first at the biographical note
If the poet has children I don't read the book

--Bill Knott

Watch for These Books

Look what some of my YA clients have been up to!

Katie Alender, BAD GIRLS DON'T DIE


Tanya Egan Gibson, HOW TO BUY A LOVE OF READING


Fran Cannon Slayton, WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS

Quote for the Day

“People think it’s so hard to leave New York, but it’s easy. You just pack up all your stuff in boxes and call a truck.”

--Garth Stein (THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN), quoted in NYT State of the Unions

That's what The Ex and I did 20 years ago (to our friends' horror), only we had our own truck so didn't even have to make a call.

The hard part is moving back to the city. Which I'm not about to do, though living two hours up the Hudson would be fine by me.

Happy April 1

Much-needed laughs for April Fool's Day:

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink
• Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
• Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters

If the Dogs Had Twitter (ROFBOL!)

Some jokes just write themselves:
Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes