Imbrium! Schroedinger and his long-suffering cat have won you a copy of the new Big Big Love. Do please send your mailing info to me at hanne at hanneblank dot com at your earliest convenience. In other news, there’s still time to order your copy of Inappropriate Crush… and there are still about 25 copies [...]
As promised, today being the 5th of September, I am having another giveaway for another copy of the shiny new-and-improved brand spankin’ not-even-on-the-shelves-yet Big Big Love. To win, simply write a clerihew on the historical personage of your choice and post it in the comments on this blog between now and noon EST tomorrow, Tuesday, September [...]
Tari! Thanks for your delightful limerick — the slant rhyme totally got me. You’ll be receiving your copy of the all-new, fabulously illustrated Big Big Love in the mail soon. And for everyone who didn’t win this time, no worries. There are 4 more copies yet to be won! And, if you are a fan of [...]
I’m back, following many things including but not limited to a four-day power outage that Hurricane Irene left in the wake of her visit to Our Fair City last weekend. The power came back on last night just after we went to bed, which prompted a round of scurrying about the house making sure everything [...]
I’m up to my firm but pliant backside in deadlines between now and the end of August and something has to shift, so what’s shifting are a few of the truly optional things. Such as blogging and other forms of social media-ing. If you need me, email is the best way to reach me. Mrs. [...]
Dear Internet, This evening I discovered that at some time in the past, I made an error configuring some of the email settings for this domain (hanneblank.com), the result of which is that all email sent to addresses at this domain has, for the past several months, been lingering in a sort of electronic Purgatory. [...]
It is an odd and humbling thing, as a writer, when it is driven home once again that one really has virtually no control over how what you put out into the world will be received. All a writer can do is put their words and thoughts out into the world, and the world decides. [...]
I’m still taking applications for my intern search. I realized I had forgotten to give a cutoff date for applications (duh — you see why I need an intern!). The cutoff date for internship applications for Summer 2011 is May 6. And this would be where I take a deep, deep breath, and ask [...]
It has become clear, in reading the comments that you lovely and insightful people have kindly left here on Homework, that at times, when I express a strong opinion about a particular issue, some people take it very personally. Some people appear to feel that when I express a strong opinion about, say, the questionability [...]
Ahem, and tap-tap-tap-is-this-thing-on, and hello, and my, it’s been an unconscionably long time since I last addressed the Internet from this vantage point. Please take it as writ that I missed you all terribly and that I will attempt to make some sort of amends for my truant ways. In my own defense, I was [...]
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