Blogging Time and Changes Are Ah-Foot

Just a great great post on author Robin Brande's website on the vacuum that is blogging and how it has a nasty tendency to eat away at your soul. How authors blog and write at the same time is a delicious mystery to me. The comments from fellow bloggers are certainly worth reading in and of themselves and something MotherReader mentions got to me. The time-suck that is blogging is essentially a second job. A second job that does not pay. And for the moment, no one in the kidlit circle is getting paid, right? Outside of the publisher blogs, of course. If we did, would that mean that we were selling out? If something's a labor of love rather than a paycheck, is it more legitimate or on par?

Just thinking out loud.

Strange Statues From Around the World

I'll just give you a little sense of what I'm talking about.


See? How can you resist that? The BB-Blog has a regular feature of less than normal statuary around the globe. This is just a taste.

This kind of stuff should be a non-fiction children's book. I'm just saying. And if someone would like to sponsor me to travel all around the world FINDING such wacky statues, I'd be more than willing to do so. Otherwise, I think it's the BB-Blog's obligation to the world to write the book herself. She's got mad skillz, after all.