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Max Sindell's Blog
December 2, 2008
- So... I've been asked to do a little research on the best sites online, whether it be blogs, magazines, or anyplace else that conduct great author interviews. Google has been a bit of a dead end, and then I realized that I've got the best resource on the web - you!If you wouldn't mind sending me an email or leaving me a comment, I'd really like to hear the places on the web that you were ...
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November 26, 2008
- As Author Liaison for Red Room, I’m very excited to announce that Tin House Bookshas partnered with us to be the official online home for its authors! I’d like to take a moment to introduce you to the wide variety of exceptional writers whom Tin House publishes: Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine. He published Oregon Magazine from 1976 to 1988, has ...
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November 24, 2008
- Ok, I'll play.The things I've done thus far are bolded. 1. Started your own blog2. Slept under the stars3. Played in a band4. Visited Hawaii5. Watched a meteor shower6. Given more than you can afford to charity7. Been to Disneyland8. Climbed a mountain9. Held a praying mantis10. Sang a solo11. Bungee jumped12. Visited Paris13. Watched a lightning storm at sea14. Taught yourself an art from ...
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November 10, 2008
- Much like me, this rabbit disapproves of the selection of "hypermiling" to be the "Word of the Year" by the "New Oxford American Dictionary." Quick poll: Am I the only person who had maybe heard of the word once before, if that? Now I know it's easy to be a critic and not offer a better alternatve, but I'm hoping for better suggestions from our community than ...
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October 30, 2008
- So I was walking by a newsstand the other day when I thought I saw my book on the cover of Newsweek. Silly me! ...It's not just me is it?
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October 13, 2008
- This was my first Litquake, and it definitely won't be my last. It's nice to know that literature is still alive and thriving—you read enough news alone with your blog and you feel like no one reads anymore.But they do! Boy, do they ever. Whether it was at LDM on Monday, hearing U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and others (including Dan Bellm) in Grace Cathedral, or the reading I attended at the ...
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September 29, 2008
- 1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car/motorcycle): Ziggy Outback 2. Your gangsta name (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Chocolate Puma 3. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Cameron Los Angeles 4. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Sin Ma 5. Superhero name (favorite color, favorite ...
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August 18, 2008
- This is by far the Best. Prune. Ad. Ever!Ray Bradbury hocks prunes This is too hilarious for words. Advertisers definitely need to bring this back. I, for one, would be thrilled to see our biggest authors getting the exposure they deserve... say, Salman Rushdie selling condoms. Or Stephen King doing a late night infomercial for exercise machines.Any more ideas for great author / product matches?
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August 12, 2008
- I've been very lax in posting more blogs to my Red Room page-they've been keeping me busy! I'll try and post a little more in the future, but this is particularly appropriate for my fourth blog post. It's been an exciting several months getting to know some of you in the Red Room community, and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow! Four jobs I have had in my life: 1. Server 2. ...
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July 15, 2008
- Today I posted what I feel is one of the most important parts of my book: The Divorced Kids' Bill of Rights. It seems like everyone has a Bill of Rights these days. All Americans have one in their Constitution. The Geneva Convention has a Bill of Rights for prisoners of war. And if you Google "Bill of Rights," well, it looks like just about everybody has one: doctors' patients, ...
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June 18, 2008
- I've been thinking a lot lately about the importance of retraining your brain. It's all too easy to fall into routines—the same breakfast bar, the same walk to work, the same delivery menus... The last couple of months, with my move from Brooklyn to San Francisco, and starting a new job, have really been a smack on the head about all the routines I'd fallen into. Even more, it's amazing that ...
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June 13, 2008
- So thank goodness I'd never heard of Blue Bottle Coffee before I started working here, or I'd have been in biiiiig trouble. Or 3 feet tall. This stuff is like the crack of coffee. And they only do double shots of espresso. One of my friends who studied psychopharmacology told me that technically, caffeine takes nearly three hours to enter the blood stream from your digestive system, and any ...
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June 10, 2008
- Paris. Paris. Paris! What else is there to say?What is truly amazing is how they keep a city that sees 72 million tourists a year so damn clean! Even the merde de chiens seems to be (for the most part) off the streets, and building by building, the monuments are being scrubbed and blasted back to white stone. Notre Dame looked almost brand new!My mother's apartment is right off the Champ de Mars, ...
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May 27, 2008
- Before I get too settled in here at the Red Room offices, I'm heading to Paris! My mother is taking me for my birthday, and I'm excited to catch the tail end of spring in the city of lights. Before I go, there’s a lot to be done, of course. I've been spending the past few days getting familiar with all of our author pages and their content, and I think it's stunning that people like Amy Tan ...
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May 23, 2008
- So it's winding up to the end of my first week here at Red Room, and I think I can safely say I made the right choice. I'm definitely not bored. There's so much going on, as we're going to be launching tons of new features in the coming weeks. I'm still kind of learning the ropes, so I've been quietly collecting all of our data from various sources and putting it in a few nicely organized ...
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