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Chapters 3–4 of Gullvier's Travels. Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#GulliverGuffaws): Twittering Question: Who do you consider the best modern-day satirist?
I will randomly select a name from this episode's responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet.

Fun stuff: Dr Brunner's useful posts on 10 character flaws that can derail even good people and prepare your child for trauma, Judge John Hodgeman and Alton Brown (what could be better?!) and the book I mentioned at SeedPod Publishing, After the Strawberry.

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Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter! Purchase a completed, knitted Cheddar from Penny for $36 via Little Acorn Creations!

 and now Wensleydale, Cheddar's Lilliputian friend

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April/May 2012 incentive—Your veddy own Defarge PAC (Don’t Lose Your Head!) t-shirt. Donate or subscribe to be put into the running for a shirt!

Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders!

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Ehren, I think you'll agree, rocks the Gulliver text. 

Chapter2 of Gullvier's Travels.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#GulliverGuffaws).

Twittering Question: What do you think Swift will attack first next week when the satire really kicks in? Discuss.
I will randomly select a name from this episode's responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet.

Fun stuf: Philip II with his jaw.

Father-in-Law Abe's gorgeous app, CowBird.com (no, really), and a Good Story is Hard to Find where we discuss The Wrath of Khan(and Montalban's chest... seriously).

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Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter! (a pattern)

 or get it by subscribing

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Totally forgot to mention:

And April/May 2012 incentive? Your veddy own Defarge PAC (Don’t Lose Your Head!) t-shirt. Donate or subscribe to be put into the running for a shirt!

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? —this time in color!—is in pre-orders!

And, more happiness—the husband gets more good press for his book, too! Yay books! Yay literate people!

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Ehren, I think you'll agree, rocks the Gulliver text.

Intro bits and Chapter 1 of Gullvier's Travels. Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#GulliverGuffaws): Twittering Question: What is your favorite moment from the beginning of Gulliver's Travels? (We'll have more interesting questions soon--this was a big BIG podcast to get out. My brain will be back shortly)

I will randomly select a name from this episode's responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet.

And, NEW! We have a survey so you can tell me what you REALLY want! And we have a new mailing list which will allow me to get announcements out to you (like when I—SURPRISE—find out I'll be at MDSW and stuff like that).

Type your email below and hit "enter."

I will never, ever give or sell your email information to anyone.

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SFF Audio—I've hit the big time! Listen to The New Mother here and SFF with me here. And then go take a look at Tara Swiger's book Market Yourself. Love! Her!

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Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter (pattern)!  or get it by SUBSCRIBING* (i.e., committing to a monthly payment to Just the Books)

Or

Purchase a completed, knitted Cheddar from Penny for $36 via little acorn creations (coming soon!)

And April/May 2012 incentive? Your veddy own Defarge PAC (Don't Lose Your Head!) t-shirt. Donate or subscribe to be put into the running for a shirt!

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Order via NetFlix or purchase from Amazon.

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders! 25+ patterns of yarny goodness (sweaters, mittens, a devilishly cute layette, and more all await you!). The good people at Cooperative Press have found a local printer who can bring you our new book still printed in the USA! Mwah!

Have I told you how much I love indie publishers?

And speaking of Cooperative Press! Two new goodies for you! First, the CP Sock & Mitt Club. Second, the CP Mag! Both of which yours truly will be working on! Yay! What is CP saying about the Magazine?

Let me share what CP says:

Our intentions are as follows:

• as with all things CP, we compensate our contributors fairly, work with indie designers and dyers, and generally keep great content coming at you;
• we will be publishing 3x per year (though we’re doing a special “issue zero” in time for TNNA, the big pro fiber arts tradeshow in June) via our own app. This app will eventually also offer other Cooperative Press content, too. Ebooks, special issues, etc.;
• by popular demand and in response to some early feedback, we’ll do a PDF version of the magazine, which will be available via our website and Ravelry. It won’t have the video/audio/interactive functionality of the main version, but for readers who aren’t interested in reading via app, it’ll offer access to most of the content;
• each year, we’ll collect the magazine content into a book book -- think the way Food&Wine or Martha Stewart republishes their "best-of" each year.

Hopefully having multiple access points for the content will make everyone happy. And by having several digital options, it makes it possible to buy it from anywhere (even Australia and the UK!), because as we’ve learned selling books, not everyone feels like paying the (frankly absurd) postage rates these days. It makes me ill to have to charge half again the cost of a print book just to ship it to Europe, and from a purely capitalistic perspective, I’d rather you put that $12 towards another one of our ebooks! :)

And, more happiness—the husband gets more good press for his book, too! Yay books! Yay literate people!

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And my new pattern (that I'm so proud of!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating (more details on knitting blog).

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Ehren, I think you'll agree, rocks the Gulliver text.

grab the code (working on the JtB version...)

And, of course, I'm racking up moments of the usual start-of-book zeitgeist. (Have you seen the advertisement yet? Thank you, Jill!)

Booktalk starts at 28:30 or so. Audio

*Yes, I know you're not all knitters, but you can gift it. I do know that some of you ARE knitters, but don't have as much time for listening and this is easier than fast forwarding, so... JtB Subscribers will still get all the CraftLit goodies... plus.

BONUS EPISODE! "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald—part 2.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#FaveFitzgerald): Question: What is your favorite bit from the second half of "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"? I will randomly select a name from this episode's responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet.

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Defarge 2—What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—this time in color!—is in pre-orders! 25+ patterns of yarny goodness (sweaters, mittens, a devilishly cute layette, and more all await you!). The good people at Cooperative Press have found a local printer who can bring you our new book still printed in the USA! Mwah!

Have I told you how much I love indie publishers?

And speaking of Cooperative Press! Two new goodies for any knitters/crocheters you may know! First, the CP Sock & Mitt Club. Second, the CP Mag! Both of which yours truly will be working on! Yay! What is CP saying about the Magazine?

Let me share what CP said:

Our intentions are as follows:

• as with all things CP, we compensate our contributors fairly, work with indie designers and dyers, and generally keep great content coming at you;
• we will be publishing 3x per year (though we’re doing a special “issue zero” in time for TNNA, the big pro fiber arts tradeshow in June) via our own app. This app will eventually also offer other Cooperative Press content, too. Ebooks, special issues, etc.;
• by popular demand and in response to some early feedback, we’ll do a PDF version of the magazine, which will be available via our website and Ravelry. It won’t have the video/audio/interactive functionality of the main version, but for readers who aren’t interested in reading via app, it’ll offer access to most of the content;
• each year, we’ll collect the magazine content into a book book -- think the way Food&Wine or Martha Stewart republishes their "best-of" each year.

Hopefully having multiple access points for the content will make everyone happy. And by having several digital options, it makes it possible to buy it from anywhere (even Australia and the UK!), because as we’ve learned selling books, not everyone feels like paying the (frankly absurd) postage rates these days. It makes me ill to have to charge half again the cost of a print book just to ship it to Europe, and from a purely capitalistic perspective, I’d rather you put that $12 towards another one of our ebooks! :)

And, more happiness—the husband gets more good press for his book, too! Yay books! Yay literate people!

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And my new pattern (that I'm so proud of!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating. (more details on knitting blog)

Let me know what you thought of the movie by tweeting a response using this hashtag (#HungerGamesMovie): Question: What did you think of the Hunger Games movie"? (Thank you @ReneeRico, for the idea—and ditto on selecting a name for a bracelet!)

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Audible's Moveable Feast with the excellent reader, Zora Neale Hurston's lovely Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Soon Ehren and I'll have Gulliver ready for you. I'm racking up moments of the usual start-of-book zeitgeist. (Have you seen the advertisement yet? Thank you, Jill!)

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BONUS EPISODE! "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald—part 1.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#FaveFitzgerald): Question: What is your favorite bit from the first half of "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"? I will randomly select a name from the responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet (iffin you want one)!

Have an idea for a knitting pattern based on a Hitchcock flick? Send yourself over to Stephannie Tallent's blog and get the skinny on how to submit your ideas!

And my new pattern (that I'm so proud of I'm even sharing it here!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating. (more details on knitting blog)

If you would like to purchase the pattern you can do it here through my regular shoppe account via the cart button below, or via my Ravelry shop where the pdf will be stored in your Library. This sock is for the adventurous intermediate or expert knitter (or for a new knitter who hasn’t been told that socks, cables, and double knitting are hard, the therefore is able to do anything) Skills​ knit and purl stitches, YO, right and left leaning increases, decreases, cables knitting in the round on two circular needles reading lace and charts; use of stitch markers to delineate repeats knitting both Continental and British (as commonly done in Fair Isle) is helpful if you wish to include the optional hidden pocket knowledge of double-knitting is useful but not required. Tutorial included. Size​ (S,M)L— for accurate fit, measure around ball of Foot (7in,8in)9in, Gauge​ ​ 28 sts=4 in/10cm; 38 rows=4” on sole-stitch stockinette; same on stockinette arrowhead lace Yarn ​ ​ SOLE: held double; sample knit with The March Hare in Scarlet Letter [70% Merino, 30% silk, 435 yards/ 398 m, 100g; 18 WPI]; INSTEP/LEG: Mountain Colors: CrazyFoot in Headwaters [90% superwash Merino, 10% nylon, 425 yards/ 389 m, 100g; 18 WPI] Needle ​ ​​ Two US 1 (2.25 mm) circs; cable needle or appropriate substitute tool; one set US 1 dpns for optional pocket Notions​​ ​ stitch markers or paperclips (many)   CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weekswe will be featuring different producers' apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app... your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot

246—Chapter 27—THE END of Dracula! Whoot!

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CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weekswe will be featuring different producers' apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app... your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. (go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, Maurice Mengel, and Elizabeth Klett for our audio this week! Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot

245—Chapter 26 of Dracula! Whoot!

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HENRY Irving--not John Irving (caught it too late!)

The book on decision making:

Mina's typewriter (perhaps)

Once again we need our map:

this comes to us via Syrie James @Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Syrie James’ novel Dracula, My Love.

Misty won Caramel! Heather(!) won one of Mighty Distractible's embroidery kits! From this month's incentive drawing!

CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weeks we will be featuring different producers' apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app... your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. (go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, and Elizabeth Klett for our audio this week! Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot

244—Chapter 25 of Dracula! Whoot!

(Scroll to the bottom of the page for a player or grab the show on iTunes or via this feed). The Husband wrote an awesome post on being an outsider. Now you know (another reason) why I love the guy. Degenerate art, a catalog of the show I saw.

Here's the SFF #094 episode Julie was on chatting about Gulliver (spoilers).

Once again we need our map:

this comes to us via Syrie James @Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins;

Syrie James’ novel Dracula, My Love.

Do you like Caramel? Yes I like Caramel! Do you like embroidery? Yes I like embroidery! Incentives this month! A pound of Caramels or Mighty Distractible's embroidery kits! Donate in the sidebar to be put into the drawing!

The store is now open!

CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weeks we will be featuring different producers' apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app... your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. (go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, and Jon's friend Charlie Allen Wall for our audio this week! Just the Books is now paralleling CraftLit in real time—for Dracula. We'll be uploading the books between Pride and Prejudice and The Woman in White as time and storage space allow. AND the CraftLit Family page is up and growing! Add what you're up to there and share your "betterness". Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot

243—Chapter 24 of Dracula! Whoot!

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Do you like Caramel? Yes I like Caramel!

Do you like embroidery? Yes I like embroidery!
Incentives this month! A pound of Caramels and Mighty Distractible's embroidery kits! Donate in the sidebar to be put into the drawing!      

Winchester Repeater

CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! Wizzard Media just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weeks we will be featuring different producers' apps and this week your CraftLit has been chosen! Download the FREE Podcast Box app... CraftLit will be front and center when you launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. Let Jon know you're a fan. (go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, Elizabeth Klett, and Maurice Mengel for our audio this week!  Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set by Webdesigner Depot

242—Chapters 22–23 of Dracula! Whoot!

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This week's speciality...Knives! All kinds, like…
Kukri from Nepal	Machaira of ancient Macedonia
Kopis ("chopper") of ancient Greece	xiphos of ancient Greece
harpé of Greece	falcata of Iberia
And a Bowie Knife

Let Jon know you're a fan.

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Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard for our audio this week!

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