Drops of Blood

Word nerd alert: The word lovers’ radio program & podcast, ‘A Way with Words,’ starts its season this weekend with a new one-hour show. Check out their website for details:
http://www.waywordradio.org/
Strap on your dictionaries, and be there or be square. (Oh heck – do both. I know I will!)
[tags]A Way with Words, podcast[/tags]

I’ve had a run of unusually good luck recently with my favorite blogs and podcasts, through no special virtue of my own. First, I got a note from one of the uber-cool podcasters I love to recommend, Charles Hodgson of Podictionary fame, advising me that he was asking his publisher to send me a copy [...]

Things I learned from digging through the archives of The Writing Show podcast — in particular, the April 2, 2007, show:

There’s a difference between signed books and inscribed books. It inspired me to do a web search on the topic, and I found a thoughtful article on the topic here.
There’s a free search engine called [...]