Friday Five and New Scene for LAMENT

1. First of all, since this is the last Friday before Lament's release date, my Friday fiction over at is a new, never before scene from LAMENT (it's not spoilery for those of you who haven't read it yet).

2. I talked at Robinson High School in Fairfax on Wednesday and Thursday and yoiks that place was huge. 4200 students under one roof. Jenniferohcious from LiveJournal caught me on film there wearing my Dr. Seuss Old Navy shirt and she also fed me lots of cookies. I don't know what I'm smiling at in her photos, but I look happy, or something.

3. Holy. Crap. People, this is my last weekend before Lament is out in bookstores. Did I say that already? Holy. Crap.

4. I converted Jeannine Garsee, author of Before, After, and Somebody Inbetween, who is a non-fantasy person, to the dark side. After reading Lament, she said,

"this is an awesome, contemporary-yet-otherworldly story with one KICKASS heroine who wishes to be anything but ordinary--and gets her wish in a complicated and very disturbing way. "

And was Karen Mahoney was "blown away" by Lament. I think in a good way, not in the way that characters were in that Jeff Bridges movie called Blown Away. The one where the IRA guy sings along to U2 songs while he builds bombs.

5. I watched Juno with Jenniferohicious these week, by the way, and I'm afraid people are right. I do kinda look like Ellen Page.