Lara Zielin

STATUS: My cat’s breath smells like cat food. I got a link this morning from Colleen where you can Simpsonize yourself, and I totally had to try it out. Unfortunately, it had some issues with the photos I submitted, so I’m posting Colleen’s Simpsonized photo instead of mine. It really does look uncannily like her. If she was yellow and a cartoon, that is. Also, in honor of Homer and the gang (not to mention the new movie, which I haven’t seen yet but will soon), I’ve changed the links under “Something Shiny” to all things Simpsons (or at least things they’d approve of). I feel this is especially relevant since Homer loves donuts and I’ve got a book coming out with a title he’d totally dig.In the meantime, Rob and I are in the throes of figuring out how to make my author website rival YouTube. Well, not really, but we do want it to be cool. He pointed out the Calamity Physics site, which is kick-ass but is really more about the book (and filling in All the Things You May Have Missed) versus a true author site where you learn about the author and all their books, not just one book in detail. I like the Catherine Gilbert Murdock site, but she looks kinda … severe or something. I probably shouldn’t say that because I want her to blurb my book at some point. So, um, picture her site with way more laughs, and that’s pretty much how I want larawrites.com to be.

As soon as it’s up, I’ll of course link to this blog.

If anyone has good author websites to use for benchmarking, pass ‘em along!

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