[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xobv5cUMt0&w=854&h=480] That’s not the beginning to a joke, it’s how three writers became friends and collaborators. I first met A.R. (Amy) Miller and Rachel Eliason at an Iowa author signing in Des Moines. Then the three of us hosted a panel at ICON39 discussing urban fantasy, and we discovered that even though our backgrounds were […]
This article from Business Insider (click on the image to read it) about a young woman’s travails because her name is Beyoncé, reminded me a promotion we did at WMT-FM way back when called “Famous Names.” We invited anyone who shared a name with a celebrity to attend a fundraiser. About thirty showed up. I specifically […]
Psychologists say that most people’s musical taste is forever frozen in their teens or twenties. And I suspect that every music-head ever born has looked at the older generation and thought “No oldies for me. I will always stay current by listening to Top Forty Radio.” Or today, perhaps it would be better to say […]