Monday, November 30, 2009

Presenting!! The Official Good Books Inc. Store!!






ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION!!!
Hey there marauders! It has been quite awhile since we have been up to any mischief hasn't it? We know there are no excuses for leaving our loyal followers in the dark so the only reasons we can give you are that we just absolutely suck with time management these days. With finals, food comas, and starting our own business, life has been hectic beyond comprehension and some of our treasured loves (the blogosphere) have somehow fallen by the wayside.
Hopefully you will all be happy to hear that Padfoot and Prongs are back and ready to review, post, comment, and continue on with all the fabulous book chat there is out there to be had!!!

!HOWEVER!
But most importantly we are so proud to announce to you the official opening of the Good Books Inc. Store!! This dream of ours has been in talk for many long months and we have worked tierlessly to bring you the best designs and products that we could produce. We are so excited to finally be sharing with all of our loyal bloggers what we have been up to and we hope you will love everything just as much as we do! Without all of you we never would have been inspired to begin this journey!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pnpprinting
Our products are all built around our lover for literature and featrue some of the most popular works out there along with original literary designs of our own. Perfect for the literature lover in your life, Good Books Inc. provides literary parephanelia that you can't find anywhere else!

Check out all that we have available now and be sure to check back in the future for more designs, products, sales and of course literary love! We can't wait to continue to add to the collection we have started so far. There will be constant updates of new products so be sure to bookmark us and check back reguarly!
So check out the shop and make sure to tell any of your literary friends.
As always we welcome and hope for your feedback, comments, criticism and compliments. Any opinions you have for us will help in our future designs so don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Thanks so much again to every one who has stuck around listening to our constant promises and announcments. We hope the wait has paid off. Make sure to check back later this week for more reviews, book club information and of course more of your favorite marauders!!

-mischief FINALLY managed-


Presenting!! The Official Good Books Inc. Store!!






ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION!!!
Hey there marauders! It has been quite awhile since we have been up to any mischief hasn't it? We know there are no excuses for leaving our loyal followers in the dark so the only reasons we can give you are that we just absolutely suck with time management these days. With finals, food comas, and starting our own business, life has been hectic beyond comprehension and some of our treasured loves (the blogosphere) have somehow fallen by the wayside.
Hopefully you will all be happy to hear that Padfoot and Prongs are back and ready to review, post, comment, and continue on with all the fabulous book chat there is out there to be had!!!

!HOWEVER!
But most importantly we are so proud to announce to you the official opening of the Good Books Inc. Store!! This dream of ours has been in talk for many long months and we have worked tierlessly to bring you the best designs and products that we could produce. We are so excited to finally be sharing with all of our loyal bloggers what we have been up to and we hope you will love everything just as much as we do! Without all of you we never would have been inspired to begin this journey!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pnpprinting
Our products are all built around our lover for literature and featrue some of the most popular works out there along with original literary designs of our own. Perfect for the literature lover in your life, Good Books Inc. provides literary parephanelia that you can't find anywhere else!

Check out all that we have available now and be sure to check back in the future for more designs, products, sales and of course literary love! We can't wait to continue to add to the collection we have started so far. There will be constant updates of new products so be sure to bookmark us and check back reguarly!
So check out the shop and make sure to tell any of your literary friends.
As always we welcome and hope for your feedback, comments, criticism and compliments. Any opinions you have for us will help in our future designs so don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Thanks so much again to every one who has stuck around listening to our constant promises and announcments. We hope the wait has paid off. Make sure to check back later this week for more reviews, book club information and of course more of your favorite marauders!!

-mischief FINALLY managed-


Monday, November 2, 2009

NaNoWriMo - Because I'm Crazy.


Hey there fellow writers and marauders!! Prongs here bringing you a very special blog update dedicated to that wonderful time of the year known as
National Novel Writing Month!!

For those of you who are sane enough to not to be participating, or are just unaware of what this event entails, here is the run down:
National Novel Writing Month takes place from November 1st-30th. In this time any one who is participating (yours truly) is committing themselves to writing 50,000 words of a novel.

I'm sorry....did I say 50,000.
Jesus yes I did. So like I said, for those of you who are not crazy and enjoy having any amount of a life, you can live vicariously through me and some fellow NaNoWriMo authors as we plunge our way through a month of literary hysteria!
I thought it would be a fun new weekly if I kept those of you who read our humble blog updated on my status and my story, as well as share information about other writers who are participating in the event. The road promises to be long and hard but hopefully at the end we will all have something that we can at least be remotely proud of.

Ok so with this first post I figured I would feature myself, since who knows how long I will be able to keep my own story going. For those of you who read the blog you know me as Prongs, the serious reviewer and witty partner of Padfoot. I have been interested in writing for quite some time but have never really had the dicipline to sit down and put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard). However this past fall I partook in a writing workshop which seemed to be the intial bump I needed to get the creative juices flowing.
You can follow my NaNoWriMo status here as well as through the blog and on twitter. Any comments, ideas, enouragments, or down right judgments are more than welcomed. This is a community event so the more people that meet and grow together because of NaNoWriMo the better.

For those of you who are interested here is a bit about the story I have started:

(WORKING) Title: Trigger

Current Word Count:
252
Synopsis: A world exists where by simply uttering a single phrase could 'Trigger' something in your mind, causing you to drop dead. Some people can sense what their is, and some people have no ide
a.

Excerpt:
Jeffery L. Swiney calmly and evenly said to his wife, ‘Matilda dear, please pass the pork chops’ and then unsurprisingly dropped dead.

There was a quiet, controlled response from the dinner party as every one let out a regrettable sigh, pushing their chairs in to help Matilda roll over her husband’s tubby corpse. I watched as Mr. Hilden from down the road made his way from the dining room to the kitchen, and with no sense of urgency pick up the receiver to place a muffled call for an ambulance that arrived 15 minutes later. Chairs scuffed the hard-wood floor and Mozart continued gently in the background as more neighbors offered their condolences for Mrs. Swiney’s loss by absentmindly shaking her hand, while looking for their belongings.
The dinner party had seemingly come to an unfortunate stop, so one by one the neighbors began to retire back to their own homes just up the road, a long enough walk to remember Mr. Swiney, then possibly salvage the night with a stop for ice cream. Since Mrs. Swiney turned down my offer to help her clean up the wine her recently departed husband’s hand had spilt, and since all the other neighbors seemed preoccupied with the task of shallow valedictions, I picked up my fork and began to slowly pick at the last few potatoes left on my plate. After all, there was no reason to let the death of Jeffery Swiney spoil what other wise had been a perfectly pleasant evening.
There you go folks. A short clip of what is sure to be a ridiculous, unorganized, mess of a novel but at least it will be 50,000 words by the end!!

Remember to keep checking in on my status as well as information on other NaNoWriMo authors!!

-mischief managed-

NaNoWriMo - Because I'm Crazy.


Hey there fellow writers and marauders!! Prongs here bringing you a very special blog update dedicated to that wonderful time of the year known as
National Novel Writing Month!!

For those of you who are sane enough to not to be participating, or are just unaware of what this event entails, here is the run down:
National Novel Writing Month takes place from November 1st-30th. In this time any one who is participating (yours truly) is committing themselves to writing 50,000 words of a novel.

I'm sorry....did I say 50,000.
Jesus yes I did. So like I said, for those of you who are not crazy and enjoy having any amount of a life, you can live vicariously through me and some fellow NaNoWriMo authors as we plunge our way through a month of literary hysteria!
I thought it would be a fun new weekly if I kept those of you who read our humble blog updated on my status and my story, as well as share information about other writers who are participating in the event. The road promises to be long and hard but hopefully at the end we will all have something that we can at least be remotely proud of.

Ok so with this first post I figured I would feature myself, since who knows how long I will be able to keep my own story going. For those of you who read the blog you know me as Prongs, the serious reviewer and witty partner of Padfoot. I have been interested in writing for quite some time but have never really had the dicipline to sit down and put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard). However this past fall I partook in a writing workshop which seemed to be the intial bump I needed to get the creative juices flowing.
You can follow my NaNoWriMo status here as well as through the blog and on twitter. Any comments, ideas, enouragments, or down right judgments are more than welcomed. This is a community event so the more people that meet and grow together because of NaNoWriMo the better.

For those of you who are interested here is a bit about the story I have started:

(WORKING) Title: Trigger

Current Word Count:
252
Synopsis: A world exists where by simply uttering a single phrase could 'Trigger' something in your mind, causing you to drop dead. Some people can sense what their is, and some people have no ide
a.

Excerpt:
Jeffery L. Swiney calmly and evenly said to his wife, ‘Matilda dear, please pass the pork chops’ and then unsurprisingly dropped dead.

There was a quiet, controlled response from the dinner party as every one let out a regrettable sigh, pushing their chairs in to help Matilda roll over her husband’s tubby corpse. I watched as Mr. Hilden from down the road made his way from the dining room to the kitchen, and with no sense of urgency pick up the receiver to place a muffled call for an ambulance that arrived 15 minutes later. Chairs scuffed the hard-wood floor and Mozart continued gently in the background as more neighbors offered their condolences for Mrs. Swiney’s loss by absentmindly shaking her hand, while looking for their belongings.
The dinner party had seemingly come to an unfortunate stop, so one by one the neighbors began to retire back to their own homes just up the road, a long enough walk to remember Mr. Swiney, then possibly salvage the night with a stop for ice cream. Since Mrs. Swiney turned down my offer to help her clean up the wine her recently departed husband’s hand had spilt, and since all the other neighbors seemed preoccupied with the task of shallow valedictions, I picked up my fork and began to slowly pick at the last few potatoes left on my plate. After all, there was no reason to let the death of Jeffery Swiney spoil what other wise had been a perfectly pleasant evening.
There you go folks. A short clip of what is sure to be a ridiculous, unorganized, mess of a novel but at least it will be 50,000 words by the end!!

Remember to keep checking in on my status as well as information on other NaNoWriMo authors!!

-mischief managed-