APRIL HENRY, WRITER

In an article for the Oregonian, Blake Nelson talks about how the most unlikely inspiration sometimes leads to great books (including Destroy All Cars): “A joke. A side project. A bad mood. From such things, great work occasionally appears.”

Read more here.

At BEA last week Roxanne Coady offered these figures on where books are
being sold:

30% of all bookstore sales are through bookstore chains
15% are sold online
10% are sold in independents
45% are sold in big box/specialty stores

Oh no! I spend every Monday and Wednesday in a kung fu/kickboxing class, feeling all cool and deadly. I'm probably one of the few people in the class old enough to have memories of when actor David Carradine starresd in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu." A news report says he hung himself in a Bangkok hotel room using a cord for the curtains.

Rest in peace, Grasshopper.