“You know, fellow blog reader, Chandler’s blog is beginning to read a lot like a monologue. She keeps talking and talking and talking-”

“I know what you mean! It’s like she can’t shut up. You’d think she believes she owns Fumbling with Fiction or something.”

“Yeah, like yesterday, she wrote two posts. Two posts! How could one person have so much to say!?”

“Exactly my point! I mean, let someone else chime in, why don’t ya?”

“Right! She can’t just sit there and narrate the entire publishing industry to us. I’d rather smell like Funyans for the rest of my friggin’ life than listen to that!”

“And we thought Stephenie Meyer’s descriptions were tedious! I’m sitting here like, ‘Chandler, hello? Some dialogue might be nice!’”

“No kidding. Doesn’t she know that a few snippets of witty repartee might keep her readers from being bored into rigor mortis?”

“Not to mention speed up the pacing. Geez!”

“Um…guys?”

“Oh shoot! Do you think she heard us?”

“Too soon to tell!”

“Of course I heard you, you’re on my blog!”

“Classic example of a heavy-handed author, no?”

“Excellent diagnosis.”

“Guys! I can still hear you!”

“Awwwkward!”

“Ugh! I do use dialogue! The comment section. Ever heard of it?”

“The comment section…the comment section. Nope! Doesn’t ring a bell.”

“No ringing here either.”

“The comment section, y’all! And! If you get your bony bums over there you might just win yourself a copy of Heather Terrell’s The Map Thief while you’re at it.”

Status: Goodies from Random House today! I now have the advance reading copies of The Gargoyle in my hot little hands and Random House threw in a couple other books for fun. I got One More Year by Sana Krasikov and the bound galley for When We Were Romans by Whitbread Award Winner Matthew Kneale. They all look great and I look forward to reading and reviewing them.