I got a really nice message from my editor today. Alexandra Fuller, who wrote the critical hits and bestsellers Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, sent a really nice blurb for my book Columbine:

"Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this is a vivid exploration of the broken logic that drove two young men to commit a terrible, senseless crime. A stunning achievement -- clear-eyed, compassionate, thoroughly researched. However much we may want to, we cannot afford to look away."

How cool to get compared to Capote, and In Cold Blood. I freaking love that book.

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FYI, here are the previous blurbs. (My editor says I can't repeat them too much. hahaha. So I just added them to the sidebar, too):

"Half the anguish of Columbine is our mystification. How did those boys get so twisted, so murderous? Now, after nine years of great reporting, Dave Cullen has done the impossible: you will know these killers -- and it will shake you up. This is a big-time work that will endure."
        --Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio and What It Takes

 
"Dave Cullen is the Dante of this high school hell. I came away from it thinking of Jack Nicholson hollering 'You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!'. Read this quietly powerful account of Columbine and find out if you can."
        --Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars

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BTW, I would greatly appreciate any links to my book site -- http://davecullen.com/columbine.htm -- preferably with "Columbine" as the anchor text--so that google searches on "Columbine" find it. I'm currently ranked #16 on that keyword, and need to break into the top ten. So the completed link would look like this: Columbine.

Thanks.

Whoa. I spent most of the weekend getting this blog to work again. (Don't ever use Radio Userland. That was an unnecessary caution, as it's a dying platform, due to its own inherent crappiness. It will do for now, but man . . . )

The last big, stubborn problem was with the permalinks which should now be fixed. It will propogate through the archives later today.

Yea!!!

I'm free to blog at will again.

For now.

A few years ago, Masterpiece Theater (now just "Masterpiece") was one of my favorite TV shows. I've still got it on my best list on Facebook and all my other friend sites (which are getting out of control).

Then all these really cheeseball productions--worse than Hallmark Hall of Fame. Did they switch producers a few years ago? But aren't they just buying most of this stuff from existing Brit productions--or do they have a hand in making it?

Last night, they kicked off their new season with Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which was marketly better. The first installment didn't play like self parody, but it was only barely engaging. I got interested, but it dragged, badly. And it didn't really get inside the characters very well. Just not very artfully crafted.

What's going on here? Just a show long past its prime? Time to write it off? Or do they just need to fire some nitwit and bring in a new team to replace the failed new team?