Shelf Discovery news

Shelf Discovery news Shelf Discovery holiday thank-you and FREE COPY communal action item

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Dear dearest Fine Lines readers and Shelf Discovery fans, <div> </div> <div>I'm sitting here working on pieces on New Moon, The Lovely Bones, and Push's transition from page to screen, as well as dissecting the particulars of Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir Committed, and I was suddenly overcome by a semi-procrastinatory but genuine RUSH of gratefulness to you all. I don't know that in the years of Fine Lines or since I've been able to adequately thank you for your wonderful comments, emails and assorted contributions to the uncovering of this miraculous period of now-not-forgotten literature. </div> <div> </div> <div>Your memories, questions, cover scans, and CORRECTIONS (I know! Let's blame copyeditors! Though it was pretty much all me!) about these works and MY transition from screen to page have meant more to me than I can say.</div> <div> </div> <div>Happy holidays! And let's raise a tattered copy to the authors we love,</div> <div> </div> <div>PSSSSSSSSSST! SEE MY P.S. FOR SOME TANGIBLE GOODIES.</div> <div> </div> <div>xoxoxo</div> <div> </div> <div>Lizzie</div> <div> </div> <div>TANGIBLE GOODY P.S. It is impossible to send presents to you all, but as thanks of a sort, I'd like to give away 5 free copies of Shelf Discovery to you people. All you have to do is tell me about the young adult work that means the most to you. It can be in any form: a sentence, a review, an essay, a poem, an MP3 or video clip. Feel free to tell me the funny story of your attempt to churn butter, or write a wish list of recipes you'd like to cook from fave YA books. It's all you!</div> <div> </div> <div>I will select THE BEST for free copies of Shelf Discovery, and I will also feature ALL submissions on my blog and Facebook (unless requested not to). </div> <div> </div> <div>You can submit as:</div> <div> </div> <ul> <li>Comment on <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com/2009/12/20/attention-dearest-fine-lines-readers-and-shelf-discovery-fans/">this blog link</a></li> <li>Post on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lizzieskurnick">Facebook page</a></li> <li>Email to shelfdiscovery@gmail.com </li> <li>Twitter comment <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lizzieskurnick">@lizzieskurnick</a> (for post-post-modernist 2.0'ers)</li> <li>GOOGLE VOICE CALL! (You must go to <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com/2009/12/20/attention-dearest-fine-lines-readers-and-shelf-discovery-fans/">my blog link</a> to do this. I have no idea if it will work, so you might want to double-up as insurance.)</li> </ul> <div> </div> <div>Deadline is January 1st. </div> <div> </div> <div>SHARE THE LINK AND SPREAD THE WORD with this link: <a href="http://bit.ly/6z9RH3" class="tweet-url web" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 132, 180); ">http://bit.ly/6z9RH3</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Cannot wait to hear from you!</div> <div> </div> <div>xo</div> <div>L</div>

Shelf Discovery news Steal this email

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:30:00 GMT

<a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com"><img alt="Shelf Discovery" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /></a>Hola guapas! Writing to say hello and happy holidays, and to remind you, if you are considering the matter, that that book to the left is actually a lovely and reasonably priced gift for your friends, family, or, you know, yourself. You can buy the book on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Shelf-Discovery/Lizzie-Skurnick/e/9780061756351/?itm=1&USRI=shelf+discovery">BN</a> or <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061756351">Indie Bound</a> or <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780061756351-0">Powell's</a>, or, in the grand tradition of my childhood reading technique, steal it from a friend and read it to decide if it is worthy. I am also writing in some new places! I'll be returning with some new Fine Lines to Jezebel ASAP, but in the meantime, you can also find me at: <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/lizzie-skurnick/">The Daily Beast</a>, writing on the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-01/fatherhood-gets-hip/">new culture of fatherhood</a> and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-05/what-tigers-mom-saw/">Tiger Woods</a> <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/bloggers/lizzie-skurnick">Politics Daily</a>, writing about why <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/06/in-no-particular-gender-why-are-best-book-lists-mostly-male/">book prizes always got to men</a>, the culture of <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/05/im-team-tsing-loh-whither-germaine-greer-indeed/">momhood</a> and <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/05/im-team-tsing-loh-whither-germaine-greer-indeed/">health care</a> The Chicago Trib, writing on <a href="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/10/books/chi-0110-a-hidden-life-boxjan10">Anne Frank</a> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=91708247">NPR</a>, covering <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112110781">Jaws</a>, among others As ever....find me on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lizzieskurnick">FACEBOOK</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lizzieskurnick">TWITTER</a>, OR <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2518231.Lizzie_Skurnick">GOODREADS</a>. xooxox (I wish I could FORMAT these better. I apologize.) Lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Tour & Talk etc.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Hello beautiful ladies! (And sole and handsome gentleman.) I have been VERY remiss in updating you on all happenings Shelf Discovery, mostly because I fried my computer and briefly lost the link to even access this list thing. But I am back w/Intel Centrino Duos and want to bring a few things to your attention: * Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 23 of September, at 3 pm, I will be appearing with NANCY PEARL, Librarian Extraordinaire of Action Figure Fame, on Blog Talk Radio! Click <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/show.aspx?userurl=LibraryLoveFest&year=2009&month=09&day=23&url=Nancy-Pearl-and-Lizzie-Skurnick-talk-to-LibraryLovefest">this link</a> to register to ask questions, to schedule a reminder, or, I THINK, to actually listen. This web radio thing is a new one on me. * I am SWIRLING AROUND THE DREGS OF MY TOUR in the bottom of my happy traveling glass! Starting Thursday, I will be appearing in Englewood, NJ; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; and Milwaukee, WI. (WI, right?) Please go to my <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com/events/">EVENTS PAGE</a> at www.lizzieskurnick.com/events to get more details. The Chicago part will be updated shortly, as will a later trip to...NEW ORLEANS, home of my ancient relatives, the Heberts and Lowerys, incidentally. * I have a FACEBOOK PAGE and a TWITTER THING and I'm on GOODREADS and RED ROOM. These things are set to propagate across platforms, but you may want to join one anyway. Click <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com/">lizzieskurnick.com</a> to find me anywhere in one click. * There has actually been a lot of press on this book! Presumably, you have the book and have formed your own opinions. But if you want to keep up with chatter, read <a href="http://lizzieskurnick.com/news">MY BLOG</a> at lizzieskurnick.com/news. I feel like there is more but I can't remember, because I spent the last two weeks being a bridesmaid and workshop leader and new blogger at Politics Daily, where I am writing all about getting your insurance to reimburse you for things that they don't want to, because they are crooks. I feel this is not really what you come to me for, but you can find me on <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/category/Woman-Up">Woman Up!</a> being all glowery about twice a week if you wish. Tomorrow I'm switching gears to talk about Sheree, fyi. MORE SOON! Don't forget to write! xooxox lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Events and Intimations of Things Distant

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:51:00 GMT

<img width="100" height="151" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /> Hello everybody -- just a QUICK note to let you know a few important things: I have been doing some radio and babbling terrifically, although at queerly different pitches and speeds, like a Victrola. (Bob Edwards in particular seemed to somehow prompt me to mimic his meditative, meandering tone, which is better than unconsciously imitating an English accent, I guess, which I apparently do all the time.) In any case! Hear me talk of V.C. Andrews, periods periods periods, and my favorite book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lives-Berthe-Amoss/dp/0316037400">Secret Lives</a>, on:   <ul> <li><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106931173">TALK OF THE NATION</a> (incest, Amoss)</li> <li><a href="http://www.bobedwards.info/ftopic918.html&sid=fa71b2e87198e5af0c5bce215c70fd77">THE BOB EDWARDS SHOW</a> (periods, boys)</li> <li><a href="http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2009/07/25/yalsa-podcast-74-words-in-your-ear-conversations-with-young-adult-authors-lizzie-skurnick/">A YALSA PODCAST WITH MICHAEL CART</a> (Richard Peck, death of print)</li> </ul> Attention NY'ers and Tri-State area people! I will be appearing at the TRIBECA BARNES AND NOBLE Tuesday night, doing Lord Knows What but it will be fun. Come if you can! <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/event-097242355202.ics">Download ics</a>, event info below, or <a href="http://www.booktour.com/author/lizzie_skurnick">click for BookTour thinger</a>. <h2 style="font: normal normal bold 1.45em/120% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: rgb(63, 53, 34); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Barnes & Noble Tribeca</h2> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(104, 99, 90); font: normal normal normal 1.2em/150% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; ">Date: Tuesday, July 28 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Barnes & Noble Tribeca Location: 97 Warren Street, NY, NY <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(104, 99, 90); font: normal normal normal 1.2em/150% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><big>If you'd like me to do an event at your bookstore/library/school, let me know. God knows in this economy, but I'll certainly try -- I'd love to meet you.</big> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(104, 99, 90); font: normal normal normal 1.2em/150% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><big>Thanks for reading!</big> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(104, 99, 90); font: normal normal normal 1.2em/150% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><big>xooxox</big> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(104, 99, 90); font: normal normal normal 1.2em/150% 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><big>Lizzie</big>

Shelf Discovery news July 21, 2009 is tomorrow!

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:48:00 GMT

<img width="200" height="301" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /> ....AND MAY I REMIND YOU   ....IS ALSO THE PUB DATE FOR SHELF DISCOVERY!   I would like to be soppy for one second. I've been doing this column now for almost a year and a half, and I can't thank you enough for your wonderful and witty comments, suggestions, corrections, exhortations, exhalations and manifestations in the comments section of <a href="http://jezebel.com/tag/fine-lines/">Fine Lines</a>, in my inbox, on Facebook, and in my life all the way through. It's been so wonderful to have the chance to revisit all these works that meant so much to me, and ALL THE MORE WONDERFUL to revisit them, CAPPED, WITH YOU.   Below, please find all the 2.0 places you can find me, where there will soon be more links to events, press, thoughts, assignations, and applications. You can also certainly buy the book. BUT. Mainly this is to tell you hello, and thanks.   xooxxoox Lizzie   <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shelfdiscovery" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(201, 15, 54); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">FACEBOOK</a>  |  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2518231.Lizzie_Skurnick" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(201, 15, 54); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border -bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">GOODREADS</a> | <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35314/Lizzie_Skurnick/index.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(201, 15, 54); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">HARPERCOLLINS</a> |  <a href="http://twitter.com/lizzieskurnick" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(201, 15, 54); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">TWITTER</a> |  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242044489&sr=8-1" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(201, 15, 54); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">PRE-ORDER THE BOOK</a> | <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com">LIZZIESKURNICK.COM</a>

Shelf Discovery news There are some 9,000 links in this email. Forgive!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:25:00 GMT

A very quick note to say....<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242044489&sr=8-1">Shelf Discovery</a> will be alive and kicking in bookstores and other places of commerce on July 21, 2009! That is, my friends, so, so soon. I am freaking out! Sorry, I know you shouldn't really tell your mailing list that you are freaking out. And YET. Freaking out. A few items of information: (Forgot this: iii: The latest Fine Lines is on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Blackberries-Doris-Buchanan-Smith/dp/006440238X">A Taste of Blackberries</a>. Click for <a href="http://jezebel.com/5312083/a-taste-of-blackberries-only-the-goofs-die-young">Only the Goofs Die Young</a>.) 1. In the next few weeks the book will be featured on many outlets and inlets, including DoubleX, Newsday, Talk of the Nation, Bitch magazine, and Bob Edwards. I may EMAIL you when some of this stuff happens. I know you signed up to be emailed, so it makes no sense to pre-apologize for emailing you. But I was raised PRE-INTERNET.  2. I am launching <a href="http://www.lizzieskurnick.com">www.lizzieskurnick.com</a> in a few days, which will have a neato COVER GALLERY as well as a blog and many other ways to follow any goddamn thing I am doing. But: re: cover gallery. Do you have a cover YOU ADORE? Send it to this email or lizzie@lizzieskurnick.com and I'll post it. And if you'd like to write anything about what it, as they say, means to you, I will happily post that on the blog too, once I figure out how. 3. Two bloggers, Chair, Fireplace & Tea Cozy, and Chris & Qualler, wrote <a href="http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/2009/07/shelf-discovery.html">very nice</a> <a href="http://www.theblogulator.com/2009/07/shelf-discovery-by-lizzie-skurnick.html">appreciations</a> of the book. Go to their blogs, where they also have many other wonderful things. 4. I am 2.0! Goddamnit! Less so than I could be because I refuse to get an iPhone and I also have no internet right now. But if you are on these places, I would love to meet you: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shelfdiscovery" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(201, 15, 54); text-decoration: none; ">FACEBOOK</a> (where a cover gallery resides and people have made FUN YA QUIZZES);  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2518231.Lizzie_Skurnick" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(201, 15, 54); text-decoration: none; ">GOODREADS</a>, where I am about to write about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arrangement-Elia-Kazan/dp/0812810147">the weirdest book</a> by Elia Kazan EVER that it doesn't even list;  <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35314/Lizzie_Skurnick/index.aspx" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(201, 15, 54); text-decoration: none; ">HARPERCOLLINS</a>, which also has a cover gallery; <a href="http://twitter.com/lizzieskurnick" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(201, 15, 54); text-decoration: none; ">TWITTER</a>, where I always want to just write about what I am eating, though I understand that's a tsk-tsk. Let me tell you: the $12 jar tuna at Citarella is worth it. It's worth it! Judge me! <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">You can also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242044489&sr=8-1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; fo nt-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(201, 15, 54); text-decoration: none; ">PRE-ORDER THE BOOK</a>! I just got it in the mail the other day and it is very pretty. p.s. Rob Walker asked me to be part of the <a href="http://significantobjects.com">Significant Objects</a> project, where writers contribute fictional essays about items we never actually owned that you, the reader, may then bid on on eBay. I do that about shoes I don't buy in stores ALL THE TIME. Click to read my <a href="http://significantobjects.com/2009/07/10/pen-stand/">strangely moody piece</a>! p.p.s. I was on Ana Marie Cox on the Rachel Maddow radio show which is available on iTunes. I know, I know, my head is spinning! Scott posted directions to listen. I miss, my friends, the radio. But here you go:  a) Search the iTunes Store for “Maddow 960″. b) Click on the green Rachel Maddow icon. c) Select the 06/30/09 episode. d) Listen and be amazed (or at least amused). More, more coherently, soon! xooxox Lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Radio, quizzes and links, oh my!

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:17:00 GMT

<img width="200" height="301" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /> Okay, no quizzes YET. But! The publication of SHELF DISCOVERY approacheth! And I have news for you! a)  This week on Jezebel, Fine Lines tackled <a href="http://jezebel.com/5302959/little-women-the-sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves">LITTLE WOMEN</a>. A commenter mentioned how boring Daisy and Demi are, something I forgot to put in the column itself. Thank you. b) I was on NPR talking about teen heroines and the glories thereof! You can listen <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105215167&ps=bb1">HERE</a>. c) I am now on TWITTER. As an old lady, tweeting is difficult for me, as I was raised to be ominously silent and carry a reticule. Still, though it sounds vaguely sinister, you may <a href="http://twitter.com/lizzieskurnick">FOLLOW ME</a>. d) I am also on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/shelfdiscovery">FACEBOOK</a>. And <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2518231.Lizzie_Skurnick">GOODREADS</a>. And this <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/35314/Lizzie_Skurnick/index.aspx">HARPERCOLLINS MICROSITE</a>. I update all these things regularly, allegedly. Join me there! QUIZZES! Okay, quizzes. This is the interesting part. Many of you have asked that the book tour (such as it is) involve QUIZZES! Yes, it will. But I would also like you to be INCLUDED in these quizzes. Thus, I am soliciting YOUR QUESTIONS TO INCLUDE AS WELL! What do I mean by questions? Here are some examples: <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">"When Cal returns from the war to Rass in 'Jacob Have I Loved,' Louise smears what on her hands?" <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">a) Cheap lotion b) Saltwater c) Her sister's left-behind perfume <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">ANSWER: A <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">OR <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">"In what Paula Danziger book does a girl trade her lunch for a peanut-butter-and-bean-sprout sandwich?" <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; ">ANSWER: The Divorce Express <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Those who submit questions (just hit "reply") will be entered for a chance to win a free copy of Shelf Discovery. If you make a FACEBOOK QUIZ on YA stuff, you win one automatically. Yes. You, too, can buy the book. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242044489&sr=8-1">HERE</a>. More soon. xoxoxo Lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Message

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Hello everybody! Just a very quick note to impart the following informations:  Fine Lines has returned...THRICE! If you missed it, please check out: Lois Duncan's 1974 thriller <a href="http://jezebel.com/5280403/down-a-dark-hall-getting-the-spirit-in-the-dark">DOWN A DARK HALL</a> Barthe Declements 1981 killer <a href="http://jezebel.com/5280403/down-a-dark-hall-getting-the-spirit-in-the-dark">NOTHING'S FAIR IN FIFTH GRADE</a> Judy Blume's singular <a href="http://jezebel.com/5235862/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-how-have-i-not-written-about-this-book-yet">ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET</a> and...Lisa Alther's 1976 <a href="http://jezebel.com/5256440/kinflicks-coming-to-rest">KINFLICKS</a> for Shelf Pleasuring, also off hiatus!  This is a terrific book if you've never checked it out.  I am also going to be in some MAGAZINES and on some RADIO! I will tell you all about it once I know more. Shelf Discovery is on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1644573229&ref=name">FACEBOOK</a> and we would be thrilled to have you attend our doings there.  You can also pre-order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244467836&sr=8-1">SHELF DISCOVERY</a>, if you have the means and will. Or you can just wait, because it is out July 21, 2009! Here 'tis pretty: <a href="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg"><img width="140" height="211" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="bottom" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/image/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /></a> On a totally separate note, I keep getting spring colds I can't shake. What are your best cures? My mother used to make us lemon-onion tea, and I just can't face that today.  Yours, with cruelly sore throat, awaiting wisdom, Lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Updates, updates

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:44:00 GMT

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244467836&sr=8-1"><img width="0" height="0" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/shelfdiscoverylittlerrealone.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244467836&sr=8-1"><img width="100" height="151" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/shelfdiscovery2.jpg" /></a>         <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244467836&sr=8-1">H</a>ello everybody! Just a very quick note to impart the following informations:  Fine Lines has returned...THRICE! If you missed it, please check out: Lois Duncan's 1974 thriller <a href="http://jezebel.com/5280403/down-a-dark-hall-getting-the-spirit-in-the-dark">DOWN A DARK HALL</a> Barthe Declements 1981 killer <a href="http://jezebel.com/5280403/down-a-dark-hall-getting-the-spirit-in-the-dark">NOTHING'S FAIR IN FIFTH GRADE</a> Judy Blume's singular <a href="http://jezebel.com/5235862/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-how-have-i-not-written-about-this-book-yet">ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET</a> and...Lisa Alther's 1976 <a href="http://jezebel.com/5256440/kinflicks-coming-to-rest">KINFLICKS</a> for Shelf Pleasuring, also off hiatus!  This is a terrific book if you've never checked it out.  I am also going to be in some MAGAZINES and on some RADIO! I will tell you all about it once I know more. Shelf Discovery is on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1644573229&ref=name">FACEBOOK</a> and we would be thrilled to have you attended our doings there. You can also pre-order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244467836&sr=8-1">SHELF DISCOVERY</a>, if you have the means and will. Or you can just wait, because it is out July 21, 2009! On a totally separate note, I keep getting spring colds I can't shake. What are your best cures? My mother used to make us lemon-onion tea, and I just can't face that today.  Yours, with cruelly sore throat, awaiting wisdom, Lizzie

Shelf Discovery news Shelf Discovery goes cable

Tue, 19 May 2009 21:56:00 GMT

<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; padding-top: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; "> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; padding-top: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; "> Hello all! I am currently in the process of creating yet another new site that will either give me some central place to post news for the book or (more likely) create yet another site to update. But until such time as all this is fed into some grand aggregator in the sky, some recent news/links about Shelf Discovery for your amusement: <img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1335" title="areyoutheregoditsmedodai020" src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/areyoutheregoditsmedodai020-94x150.jpg" mce_src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/areyoutheregoditsmedodai020-94x150.jpg" alt="areyoutheregoditsmedodai020" hspace="5" width="94" height="150" align="left" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left; " />I started up the Fine Lines column again two weeks with Judy Blume's Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, and discovered I was a terribly old lady who was probably only about one week away from needing a full set of fake teeth. <a href="http://jezebel.com/5235862/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-how-have-i-not-written-about-this-book-yet" mce_href="http://jezebel.com/5235862/are-you-there-god-its-me -margaret-how-have-i-not-written-about-this-book-yet">Read the full column here</a>.       <img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1338" title="kinflicks051509" src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/kinflicks051509-104x150.jpg" mce_src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/kinflicks051509-104x150.jpg" alt="kinflicks051509" hspace="5" width="104" height="150" align="left" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left; " />I also started up the Shelf Pleasuring column again last week with one of my favorite books, Lisa Alther's now mainly unsung Kinflicks, which I gifted in the days before Mustela sets and diaper caddies were all the rage. <a href="http://jezebel.com/5256440/kinflicks-coming-to-rest" mce_href="http://jezebel.com/5256440/kinflicks-coming-to-rest">Read that full column here</a>.       At the LA Times Book Festival two weeks ago, I sat on a panel about reading with the marvelous Laura Miller, Jane Smiley, and Sara Nelson. Then C-Span put it on TV! I find this, inexplicably, hilarious. <img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1339" title="2" src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/2-210x300.jpg" mce_src="http://www.theoldhag.com/wp-content/uploads/2-210x300.jpg" alt="2" width="210" height="300" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; " /> You can <a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true" mce_href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true">watch the entire panel here</a>, or, if you like, I've assembled some handy clips. (You'll have to allow popups for the player to work.) <a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=971.84&clipStop=1074.50" mce_href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=971.84&clipStop=1074.50">Wherein I discuss the infamous pancake slashing incident</a> <a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=550.94&clipStop=704.92" mce_href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=550.94&clipStop=704.92">Wherein I recall how wondrous were the days when parents had no idea what you were doing</a> <a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=1864.97&clipStop=1974.47" mce_href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=1864.97&clipStop=1974.47">Wherein I manage to move the conversation around to erections</a> <a href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=2179.79&clipStop=2275.60" mce_href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285490-3&showVid=true&clipStart=2179.79&clipStop=2275.60">Wherein I clear up the misconception that the Little House books are heartwarming</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242747218&sr=1-1" mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242747218&sr=1-1">Shelf Discovery</a> is on Facebook! (Though disturbingly NOT showing up on Amazon searches today. Oh, AMAZON...) My Facebook friends get to vote on which book will be next! Become one with us! <a mce_style="font-family: "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;" title="Shelf Discovery's Facebook Profile" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Shelf-Discovery/1644573229" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Shelf-Discovery/1644573229" target="_TOP" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">Shelf Discovery's Profile</a> <a title="Shelf Discovery's Facebook Profile" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Shelf-Discovery/1644573229" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Shelf-Discovery/1644573229" target="_TOP"><img mce_style="border: 0px;" src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/1644573229.19.2127281478.png" mce_src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/1644573229.19.2127281478.png" alt="Shelf Discovery's Facebook Profile" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></a> <a mce_style="font-family: "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: #3B5998; text-decoration: none;" title="Make your own badge!" href="http://www.facebook.com/badges.php" mce_href="http://www.facebook.com/badges.php" target="_TOP" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">Create Your Badge</a> I will also be doing a signing at <a href="http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/" mce_href="http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/">BEA</a> next Friday at 11:00 in "the signing area," wherever that is, and sitting on some panel or other at <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/events/printersrow/" mce_href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/events/printersrow/">Printer's Row in Chicago</a>. Then I will be doing like 68 other things. More info on that and other events as those dates approach.  You can also just <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242747218&sr=1-1" mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242747218&sr=1-1">buy the book!</a> (If you read my blog Old Hag, you will note the above bears a suspicious resemblance to what I just sent you. Yes -- I cribbed from my own blog. I am so tired. Does anyone else need a drink?) Write me at shelfdiscovery@gmail.com about ANYTHING. I am procrastinating right now, and I love mail. See you in teenland SOON! Lizzie </div> </div>

Shelf Discovery news Fine Lines returns!

Wed, 06 May 2009 14:42:00 GMT

<img width="150" height="226" vspace="2" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://tweeny.me/fckupload/n1644573229_266524_3954098.jpg" />Hello my beauties!!!!!!!!!!!! I am writing to let you know that, if you are not yet aware, Fine Lines is back and better than ever! (Well, it is back.) It will not be appearing exactly weekly, mostly likely, but certainly at least twice a month, with a few Shelf Pleasurings thrown in for good measure. A FEW LINKS for your enjoyment and edification: My <a href="http://jezebel.com/5235862/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-how-have-i-not-written-about-this-book-yet">latest column</a> was on 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' I have absolutely no idea how I managed to not do this book in the entire time I wrote this column. Now I did it! Let me know what you think. I am on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1644573229&ref=profile">FACEBOOK</a>! Friend me! I do nothing there, but soon it will be a great place to learn about events and giveaways. HarperCollins has given me a lovely <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061878671/Shelf_Discovery/index.aspx">Author Minisite</a>. I haven't done anything on it, but I plan to soon! Seriously. Bookmark or sign up for those author tracker thingees if you want. No idea what they do, but what is life but one big sign-up you can have the satisfaction of eventually canceling?  You can BUY THE BOOK on Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shelf-Discovery-Classics-Stopped-Reading/dp/0061756350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241619453&sr=8-1">here</a> or on Powell's <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Shelf-Discovery/Lizzie-Skurnick/e/9780061756351/?itm=3">here</a>. I love to see what other books you buy! ("Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar"? Really? That must have been a nod to Janet Lunn's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Root-Cellar-Janet-Lunn/dp/0140380361/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241620545&sr=1-1">The Root Cellar</a>", I just know it.) I am planning my tour, such as it is. Would you like me to visit your library? Your class? Your bookstore? Your book club? Your podcast emporium? A big party you would like to throw on Ellen Conford's behalf? Your...Twitter feed? Let me know now so I can try to make it happen. You can always write me at shelfdiscovery@gmail.com (I still get jezziefinelines@gmail.com too.)  Stay tuned...July 21 doth approacheth! Love, Lizzie p.s. THAT IS MY COVER! HOW AWESOME IS IT! It fills me with delight.