Author Archives: Meg
The Lasting Value of a Classical Education
Harold and I drove past this shop tonight, and I started giggling. “Cato Fashions!” I laughed, “I mean, it’s no Gatsby luxury haircare, but it’s pretty great, right?” “What?” Harold asked me. “What’s so funny about a women’s clothing chain?” … Continue reading
The Blogger Abides: A Practical Guide to Writing Well and Not Starving
The Blogger Abides: A Practical Guide to Writing Well and Not Starving is Chris Higgins’ new book on freelancing. (Disclosure: Chris is one of my favorite things about Mental Floss and he sent me an advance copy of the book … Continue reading
Two Steps Back
Looks like the Dead Island: Zombie Bait Collector’s Edition will feature a disturbing extra for zombie fans: A headless, armless bikini-clad girl’s torso. Ick. From the press release, because I could not make this up: Paul Nicholls, Sales & Marketing … Continue reading
Also, I Have Terrible Taste In Music
I just did a story on MySpace’s re-re-re-relaunch, which allowed me to have a laugh at a failed social networker getting some new investment capital to relaunch as a shiny new social networker, and also allowed me to enjoy some of … Continue reading
Bohemian Throwdown
Harold has written a new story for the comics collection Country Ass-Whupping, called Insights Into My Fiance’s Anger Issues, sorry, I mean, the story’s called Bohemian Throwdown. The other thing is just what I call it. This book is a one-shot fundraiser for … Continue reading
It’s Numbered, Too.
Harold: Oh, wow! Is this for me? Were you trying to hide this to give it to me later? Meg: No! That’s, um, that’s my Star Trek action figure that I was, um, storing in an unmarked box in the back of … Continue reading
Spaceteam!
I played Spaceteam with some friends this weekend. When you have a group of people who work in games and think critically about games, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up talking about mechanics, but I had so much genuine … Continue reading
Author, Publisher, Entrepeneur
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book is Guy Kawasaki’s new self-published ebook on, well, self-publishing and ebooks. The book opens with a short narrative about Kawasaki requesting 500 ebook copies of Enchantment from a traditional publisher, who was unable to … Continue reading
This Is Why I Can’t Tell You Things, Facebook.
Nothing good comes of the relationship status on Facebook. At least I still have a WarCraft targeted ad too.
The Forgotten Queen
D.L. Bogdan’s The Forgotten Queen is a novel about Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII. I’d previously read Secrets of the Tudor Court by this author, which is what interested me in The Forgotten Queen, and I was really … Continue reading
