IT IS DONE.
It took a while. I had about 315 entries to read and combine using SCIENCE, but your BEDA BUDDIES are now ready to go. And in case someone out there thinks this was RANDOM, I offer the scene from my desk:

100 pages of BEDA BUDDY notes, final draft of Scarlett Fever lurking behind, [...]

FlagHag asks: How can I overcome procrastination?
There are many good sites on the internet that have ideas on this. I’d search for them for a few hours.
Cjdriscoll asks: How do you deal with the pressures of deadlines when writing a book?Like this.
Andrea asks: What’s the best way to answer interview questions?
What?Miss May asks: I seem [...]

Can this really be the middle of BEDA? Can it? Have I been blogging for fifteen days straight? Have you too?
On this momentous occasion, I feel like I should tell you something about me you might not know—I really like animals. I’m the person who, when visiting someone’s house, will sit and pet their [...]

Rainbow asks: I know not everyone does their BEDA blog every day, but I didn’t do mine yesterday, and now I feel TERRIBLE. How can I redeem myself?
The answer, Rainbow, is not to feel bad at all!
I’ve been seeing comments like this a lot, people saying that they’ve failed. You can’t fail Blog Every Day [...]

Neil asks: I’m a poor student on a tight budget: how do you recommend I live my life TO THE MAX?
Neil, you have said a mouthful. How, indeed, can a poor student live his life TO THE MAX? Or, in this economic climate . . . how can anyone live TO THE MAX?
As a now-world-famous-and-excessively-almost-repulsively-rich [...]

So, I was getting off the train in Philadelphia, and I was standing in the vestibule between the cars, and the conductor turns to me.
“Hey,” she said, “guess what I just found out?”
This conversation could have gone a lot of ways.
“If someone rips off your thumb,” she said, “or, you know, it comes off . [...]

Megan asks: How do you manage to come up with an idea and stick with it throughout an entire novel . . . Also, I was wondering how you were able to continue with your novels without getting bored with them or without quitting half way through one? I know a lot of people who [...]