I have enjoyed starting off every post recently with giving away a Scarlett. Today is no exception!
When I last wrote a few days ago, I set a challenge to see if we could do something about the very poor state of the Amazon YA discussion board. At that time, it had eight sorry little discussions, [...]

First order of business: let’s give out a SUITE SCARLETT!
In case you are wondering how the winner was chosen, I wrote every name down and put them in a FESTIVE TIN. Then I had my mother, who is a registered nurse and therefore deeply impartial, reach her hand in and draw out a slip of [...]

Can you believe it! It’s CHRISTMAS EVE!
I have been looking through your comments today, and I have noticed something distressing. LOOK!
distraught beth said…*Sigh* Yet another loss. I like all the prizes and contest you have, MJ but it gets quite self-deprecating when you keep losing because you’re just not quite clever and/or insane enough.
And [...]

My recent experience on a jury makes me think that if the police ever suspect me of something and they come to me asking for an alibi . . . I could be in trouble. Case in point, last night.
So there I was, sitting with the MJ Holiday Signing Workshop Elves, signing a pile [...]

Hello, friends! I am pretty much falling over dead with Cheer! I hope you are the same!
A quick note of explanation before we go any further, because I have been getting a lot of comments about this . . .
Many of you who watched yesterday’s video will have noticed that I put the Nerdfighter thumbnail [...]

Hello, everyone! I have been so caught up in writing, signing holiday cards, and CHEER that I have fallen a bit behind again, but am coming back with a vengeance.
For today, I have made this video, which answers just a few of your many excellent questions. This is part of John and Hank Green’s Project [...]

Jingle, jingle, friends!
I am back at my desk, now that my jury service is over. Being on a murder trial is certainly interesting, and sometimes excruciating. It took us a few days of painful deliberation to come to a verdict. I was the jury foreman, and I had to stand up in the court and [...]