So I'm off and running on the new blogger format .... we shall see what adventures await!

News and old news shared by shelf-awareness:
February 12, 2007~~ Fred Mustard Stewart, who wrote such bestselling novels as The Mephisto Waltz, Six Weeks and Ellis Island, all of which became movies or TV miniseries, died last Wednesday at age 74.A New York Times obit today quoted him saying, "I love to do saga books because I love to write about families. I think it's the best genre to write in because it's the least restricting. You don't have to depend on one plot device to hold it together. The family holds it together."


December 12, 2006 ~~ from shelf-awareness.com Congratulations to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher and bookseller, who is now also a Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, following a presentation at the French consulate in San Francisco on Friday, Bloomberg reported. Ferlinghetti was honored for his poetry and publishing; he apparently joked that now he could command, among others, George Whitman, "my old friend at Shakespeare & Co. [the one in Paris]. He's only a chevalier. I can order him around!"