Side Note–OMG my egg hatched!  He’s a little dragon!  Click him to help me raise him.  He’ll die if you don’t.  Do you want that on your shoulders?  And yay for the psycho-fastness of Barnes and Noble shipping!  My copy of Why We Suck by Dr. Denis Leary arrived today.  My lord and savior, I have thee in book form.

USATODAY named Stephenie Meyer author of the year.  Why, you ask?  Good question.  I have no idea.  Nor do I have any idea why she would approve such a god horrible picture to be released of her.  She had to approve that picture, you know that, right?  Was no one able to tell her that only people weighing less than 80 pound can pull off an upshot like that?  Eek!

Anyway, I’m trying to figure out what renders Meyer suitable for author of the year, because it certainly isn’t the writing.  Not in this case anyway.  Yes, she has something that keeps you reading.  I don’t know if anyone knows what that something is, but that’s all she has going for her in the writing department.  I’ve seen better written prose out of a ten-year-old.

People say she revolutionized the YA market.  Nope.  Sorry.  JK Rowling beat her to it years ago and with much higher quality work.  So stop.  There’s just no comparing.  Harry Potter is something that will be filed into the “classic children’s literature” category 30 years from now while no one will even remember what Twilight was.  At least I can severely hope.

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