Blog Posts for Max Sindell

Calling All Authors!... Help?

Max Sindell — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:32:32 -0800

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 ...

Red Room Welcomes Tin House Books!

Max Sindell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:06:06 -0800

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 ...

Meme Team!

Max Sindell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:28:37 -0800

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 ...

Seriously? Hypermiling? Really?

Max Sindell — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:24:43 -0800

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 ...

Coincidence?

Max Sindell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:06:52 -0700

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?

LitQuakin'

Max Sindell — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:07:44 -0700

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 ...

Meme Alert!

Max Sindell — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:11:44 -0700

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 ...

Ray Bradbury Sells Out

Max Sindell — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:22:07 -0700

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?

Meme!

Max Sindell — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:54:51 -0700

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. ...

The Divorced Kids' Bill of Rights

Max Sindell — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:07:35 -0700

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, ...