Ordinarily, a box full of yarn fills me with untrammeled joy.
There is joy here, to be sure, but also dread. I've just started and I'm already behind...
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- Amazon
- Books-a-Million
- Barnes and Noble
- Borders
- IndieBound
- Powell's Books
- Green Toad Book Store
The Green Toad is my local bookshop, which is the best place to go if you'd like a signed copy of Sweater Quest. I can drop down to the store and personalize a copy for you, too. Just drop Michelle or Claire an email and they'll set you up. - Sweater Quest : Excerpt
Annnnnnnnd something to whet your desire. - The finished cardigan
Live and in person
Sweater Quest: Links
- Library Journal
Scroll down a tad...
Sweater Quest Blog Book Tour
Hillbilly Gothic: Links
- Simon & Schuster: Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (Hardcover) - Read an Excerpt
The first chapter. - The Boston Globe
- The SF Chronicle
I debated about adding this one, since it is less than flattering. However, if I'm going to point to the good ones, it seems only fair to point to the mediocre ones. After all, ignoring bad press is the federal government's job, not mine. - ELLE Magazine
- :: Metro Pulse Online ::
- Interview in the San Diego Reader
I can only begin to tell you how much fun this interview was. - Interview podcast from Psychjourney
- Wednesday Author Interview with John Scalzi
People who pay me
- Knitty
- Shaken and Stirred
- Austin Chronicle archive
- Austin Chronicle, more
- Metro Pulse archive, weekly wire
- Cooking Light: the Alton Brown piece
- Bookslut
- Moorcock's Miscellany - Content
- Washington Post Book World
- Cooking Light: the Ina Garten Q&A
- Babble: Food for Thought
- Washington Post Book World (Oct. sci-fi roundup)
- Babble: Post-partum depression times two
- Baltimore City Paper
- Locus Online: Science Fiction News, Reviews, Resources, Perspectives
- Edible Austin - Cooking Gluten-Free
- Edible Finger Lakes
- Edible Hudson Valley - on Lucky Dog Farms
on the nightstand
- James M. Tabor: Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
While Tabor's voice is workmanlike, the explorers he's talking about are fascinating - as are all of the things they do in order to go down in a hole. - Robert Charles Wilson: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
It's like Mark Twain meets Robert A. Heinlein with Wilson's usual lucid approach. He just keeps getting better as a writer. - Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl
Bleak. So very bleak. Very, very good and beautifully written but oh so bleak. Now I need a happy bunny rainbow chaser. - John Heilemann: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
So far, I have learned that the Clintons and I stayed in the same hotel in Concord, NH. Oh - and that I never, ever want to run for president. - Kitty Burns Florey: Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
I'm starting to ponder books for a college writing class. Sister B is amusing and gives me a better appreciation for grammar. I'm enjoying it - but will a student? - Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)
I managed to miss this when it was big but saw a $1 copy at my local used book store and was compelled. Dang, this is an amazing book. I can see what all the fuss was about. - Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan
All the cool kids were reading it. And I can see why. Great YA steampunk/WWI mashup with a strong female protagonist. - Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
I usually save Pratchett's Discworld books for the iPod but I've heard such good things about this one that I had to read read it, rather than listen read it.
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Already behind? How can that be? And what kind of yarn is that?
Posted by: Casey | March 27, 2008 at 09:35 PM
The yarn is Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift. The sweater is Mary Tudor. The deadline is self-imposed because I'm writing a book about the process (it's an extended metaphor, I hope) and the manuscript is due Feb. 2009.
If you wanna know where to get your own box of yarn -- holler. I'd love to have company on my Mary Tudor march...
Posted by: Adrienne | March 28, 2008 at 09:28 AM
I suspect that the knitting will go faster than you expect--stranded knitting does, for some mysterious reason. Just figure out how you're going to wrangle the color changes and manage the charts and you should be (I am touching wood as I type this lest I jinx) golden.
Posted by: Melanie | March 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Ah, you don't have to actually knit the sweater, just follow the lead of other memoir writers these days and pretend that you did.
Posted by: matthew | March 28, 2008 at 10:28 AM