Comments on: Fusenews: Love to eat them mousies. Mousies what I love to eat.

By: Jonathan Auxier

Jonathan Auxier — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:42:30 +0000

What can I say? You tell me to blog, I blog. Such is the power you exert over your readers.

Also, that Shel Silverstein thing was brilliant. It’s also the reason I never plan to read EDWIN DROOD.

By: Debbie Reese

Debbie Reese — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:44:29 +0000

Thanks for pointing people to my site!

And on the topic of creating houses… Romance fiction writer Cassie Edwards lives in a mansion modeled after Tara. Smart Bitches took her to task for plagiarism. She plagiarized from many, including N. Scott Momaday.

By: Kristi Hazelrigg

Kristi Hazelrigg — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:51:20 +0000

Someone suggested to me that Robert Downey Jr. would make a good Haymitch. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. Then there’s the whole “easy on the eye” issue, as well.

By: Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:40:43 +0000

Agreed. The idea of young Lois is enticing but the writing needs some work. Frankly, I don’t think we need Clark in there at all. But a young gutsy girl reporter middle grade series? Love it! Like Kiki Strike but with some social awareness.

Oh! Not to tear up the 3 Investigators for bags, but rather to do a book by book analysis of the plots, Leila. There’s a lot to pick apart there. Like the fact that they win a week with a personal chauffeur . . . and that week somehow never ends over the course of the entire series.

By: Leila

Leila — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:40:25 +0000

Yes! That does make sense — I’d have never even considered shelving Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys under Stratemeyer instead of Keene/Dixon, so Arthur it is… until I dig out my Hitchcocks, that is. *Then* I’ll have to re-evaluate.

I don’t think I could bear to tear up one of the Three Investigators books, as I don’t have as many doubles. But maybe, someday…

By: Elizabeth Fama

Elizabeth Fama — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:27:18 +0000

I love Dean Trippe’s and Daniel Krall’s concept for young Lois, too, but the adventures in the proposal aren’t, well, adventurous enough yet (book one: a respected pharmaceuticals representative has cheated on the asthma drug’s safety tests in order to get a promotion and a raise; book two: an elite boarding school is giving scholarships to children of celebrities and politicians…). Also, Clark is influenced by Lois, but they haven’t met at this point, so if Clark’s story is presented separately in the same book, it will sort of stall Lois’s action. There are kinks that need to be worked out, but it’s a great concept. Is DC the only publishing outlet, because they own the characters?

By: Jennifer Schultz

Jennifer Schultz — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:16:55 +0000

I love Cake Wrecks-I thought about sending you a link, but I was pretty sure that you were a Cake Wrecks reader!

By: Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:11:42 +0000

Leila I wish I had enough 3 Investigators to have that problem. Mine are all Arthurs, but if I had a Hitchcock or two I’d probably store ‘em with the Arthur like you did.

Boy, what I wouldn’t give if you did with them what you did with Nancy Drew *hint hint*.

And thanks, David!

By: david e

david e — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:30:53 +0000

what rams said. there’s no way i can hear those opening lines by b. kliben and not sing the rest of that song.

what a power-packed post. so much goodness shared, so much to check out!

By: Leila

Leila — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:41:16 +0000

In filling my new bookshelves (hooray!) I actually got some of my Three Investigators up there. Where do you put yours? I considered shelving them by series title, since Robert Arthur only wrote the first few, and I thought about filing them under Hitchcock, since that’s who everyone associates them with (and because I have a bunch of those Hitchcock collections), but I ended up putting ‘em in the ‘A’s.

But I still might move them when we add more shelves.