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Tee hee!
I also saw Julie Andrews last week!!! OMG! She was stumping for her new poetry collection, imaginatively titled Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies, and she was exactly as I always imagined she would be, which is to say, practically perfect in every way (obvs). And as I refrained from fainting, bursting into tears, or launching into a rousing rendition of "So Long, Farewell," I would say it went quite well. (And here's the plug: The watercolor illustrations in the book are off the chain. Check it out.)
Julie Andrews is awesomesauce.
Hey, here's some Twitterverse news: Neil Gaiman is going to "launch [a] crowd-sourced story on Twitter." And the prehistoric-chic publishing industry collectively reaches for its smelling salts!
On account of he won the 2009 Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book, not to mention the existence of his extensive backlist, Gaiman is Kind of a Big Deal. (In case you have been living under a rock.)
To paraphrase, The Graveyard Book says, "Death? I'm cool with that."
I just read Graveyard a week or so ago, and in addition to being very, very English (and you know how I love things that are very, very English, Harry Potter!), it's a lovely story about how death isn't that bad, really. And our hero, Bod, has kind of an unassuming badass thing going on, which will be hawt when he gets older.
But the point is, the publishing industry should probs thank Gaiman for being willing to be all brave and go out into the big bad Interweb all by his lonesome to see what there is to see. God knows they're afraid to do it themselves.
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