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I've mentioned Catherine Madsen's work on this blog before. She's the author of The Bones Reassemble, a powerful critique of modern liturgical language. (She's also a former contributing editor to the journal CrossCurrents; if you want a sample of her nonfiction online, try Notes on God's Violence,

Vintage © 2007, 226 pages This could have been a very different sort of a book, given the set-up. Britain's most notorious criminal is a woman, never named, who together with her lover tortured and killed a number of children in the 1960s. After some thirty years in prison she has finally died of natural causes.

Weird Horror Tales 29 Aug It was announced today that artist Earl Geier is illustrating the upcoming book by author Michael Vance. Published in early 2009, Weird Horror Tales will be an homage to pulp magazines from the ‘20s, ‘30s, and ‘40s such as Horror Stories and Weird Tales.

When my mom left for the airport yesterday, I decided to take Lucas shopping for his preschool supplies. I thought that it might help take my mind off missing her (nope!). I’ve been *so* excited about this new milestone for him. It was our very *first* time shopping for school supplies! Of course, I took pictures.

The Daffodils (also known as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) is an 1804 poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by a walk during which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a long belt of daffodils. The memory of the daffodils is etched in the speaker’s mind and soul to be cherished forever.

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Book Business Magazine hosted my Kindle webinar, and I had a lot of fun with the presentation. If you missed it, you can still watch it via this archive link which also lets you download my slide deck. We received quite a few questions from attendees and I wasn’t able to address them all during the session—so I thought I’d try to tackle a few via a blog post.

Many thanks to Augsburg Fortress Publishers for sending a review copy of The New Testament and Homosexuality (publisher link) by Robin Scroggs, who is Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary in New York. This one goes back quite a few years, published in 1983.

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh August 29th, 2008 JfJfP: special book offer + campaigning workshop – special offer – buy a book and give money to a Palestinian cause Raja Shehadeh is the WINNER OF THE 2008 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING.

"In the first move by a major American publisher to publish iPhone-ready (and friendly) reference material, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has rolled out applications for four of its reference titles. The titles, which can be purchased in Apple’s App Store range in price from $29.99, for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, to $8.99 for Wall Street Words." - PW.