1. This blog is mine mine MINE all week, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
2. The fine folks at Random House gave me control of their blog because I am the author of Dreadfully Ever After, the sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
3. They also probably believed that I would do something worthwhile with the blog, such as write about my new book or offer helpful tips on breaking into the writing biz.
4. They were wrong.
5. I am aware that the #4 is not something you should know about me but something you should know about the fine folks at Random House. Still, it says something about me. Such as this: “That Hockensmith guy is off his nut.”
6. I also wrote the prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dawn of the Dreadfuls.
7. I did not write Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If I had, I would be so mind-blowingly wealthy I could hire Michael Chabon to do my guest-blogging for me.
8. Since I am not that wealthy, but I am spectacularly lazy, I had to hire a starving college student to do my guest-blogging for me. Her name is Amy Wang, she’s majoring in Journalism at the University of California — Berkeley, and she is going to get $50 and two college credits for being my “intern” this week.
9. Amy’s duties as intern include (A) guest-blogging under my name and (B) stealing several books I’m interested in from the Berkeley Public Library.
10. I am aware that #9 is not something you should know about me but something you should know about Amy. Still, it says something about me. See #5.
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