YAY!! C. Alexander London's Got A Book Birthday Today!!

A while back, the Don and I were captivated by C. Alexander London's We Are Not Eaten By Yaks. (See my interview with the author HERE.)

Now, to paraphrase the Goodreads blurb, siblings Oliver and Celia Navel are on another adventure, We Dine With Cannibals, traveling from the ruins of ancient temples to the shadowy forests of the Amazon. They'll need all their reality TV survival skills when they ride a llama, race the rapids, and even fly an airplane! If that's not enough excitement for you (it is decidedly too much excitement for Oliver and Celia), they'll be forced to learn the proper etiquette for a cannibal feast and confront the strangest and most brutal rite of passage ever devised by human imagination: dodgeball.

To celebrate his book birthday, C. Alexander London is teaming up with SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir Project and wants to know about your most accidental adventure. (Further details HERE) He'll be selecting a random mini-memoirist to win a Kindle!! Don Vito's 6-worder: Purveyor of fine Italian concrete galoshes. Oy Vey!

The Don's Goin' All-Out

The Boss has never been accused of subtlety. And he's become pretty obsessed with our blog stats, muttering things like "gotta rub out the competition." I tell him that we're all middle "top" grade friends, but old gangster habits die hard, I guess.

The latest: Don Vito's opened the petty cash box and sent me off to the local indie, Annie Bloom's, where I snagged the last copy of We Are Not Eaten by Yaks.

Youse gotta read this!

I've been instructed that if we hit 26 comments or over (lucky number 13 times 2), there will be a

second lucky winner.

So tell your friends. (Or not. 'Cos if we fail, I get to keep the copy.)

Here's what you must do: Comment at the original post. Multiple comments are welcome; just don't froth at the mouth. Contest will close on Sunday September 25 at midnight, PST. Ciao!!

So Excited!!!!!!!

Have you ever had a boss from whose good side you dared not stray? A boss whose motto was "don't get mad, get even?"

That's my boss.

THE BOSS

The boss likes two things: middle-grade Italian authors and humor. Well, middle-grade Italian authors are in short supply (though I'm trying hard to convince him that America's greatest living middle-grade author's name is actually Ricardo Peckorini). But humor isn't.

Those of you who follow this blog know that last month I raved over Rylander. And now, I'm laughing loudly over London.

C. Alexander London, to be exact. Yes, the very same author of the hilarious new series, An Accidental Adventure.

I'll be interviewing Signore London next Monday for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday. And he has very kindly offered a signed copy  (plus a "super secret surprise item") to one lucky blog commenter.

We go live on Monday the 19th. Hope to see you there.

Ciao from Michale Gettelini-Gilmartini