this is the story...of one girl....picked to write about books.

This is not my life story. This is just an approximation.

So, maybe a year or so ago, I was promoted to managing staff of a not-so-hip web magazine. (To remain unnamed, and thus undistinguished from all the other not-so-hip web magazines out there.) At first we were on a roll - big names, decent content, even a fucking ILLUSTRATOR.

Then...

Well, then, everyone realized that they weren't going to get paid any time soon, and abandoned ship rather rattily.

I hung around.

Now, said web magazine is on a prolonged hiatus (our only web designer has initiated a redesign best described as ".gif barf") and I have a stack of books from publishers. FREE books. My one unpaid, web magazine perk, delivered to my door because I promised publicists from companies stretching from Harper Collins to Warner Books that we were a growing publication (we were!) with a readership of 10,000 global readers a month (not a lie!) . Now? We're a blank page with a "coming soon!" banner.

And I'm left with a stack of journalistically approved but completely unpublished book reviews.

Things are gonna change.

Anyone who doesn't like it is going to get brained by my shoes.