Jedi Defense at WordPlay

Hello everyone, Master Jedi Zack here.

WordPlay Saturday was a lot of fun, at least until that dang Sith broke the truce and tried to attack my booth! The evil menace even brainwashed one of our most loyal boys to help him. It is a sad sad day when a Sith tries to take an apprentice of his own. My own Padawan Trish was on hand but was not needed to foil the evil plan.

To make matters worse, Darth Bill even attacked some other boys when he was unable to take over the great Jedi booth! ------->

If you want to see more pictures from the Jedi Cam, I have them on the Matthews Flickr page here.

Now I must get back to defending the galaxy. Goodbye for now.

The Maze of Bones and WordPlay

I finished Maze of Bones recently and it was outstanding! I have no idea how I am going to wait 53 days for the second book. It should be interesting to see where the Cahill siblings go next.

Don't forget that this Saturday is WordPlay Saturday at ImaginOn. I have been hearing whispers that my truce with Darth Bill may be broken on that day. The Sith may try to take over the Jedi booth. I hope my information is incorrect and that the Sith can uphold the truce that he himself suggested!

A Truce It Shall Be

A true Jedi strives for a peaceful galaxy. As long as the (sometimes) noble Darth Bill can hold up his end of the bargain, I will agree to the truce.


The Carlman also mentioned Wordplay Saturday which is coming up this weekend. The one and only Master Jedi Zack will be on hand as well. I will be at the Throwing booth along with my Padawan Trish. Hopefully the truce will hold up through the weekend, I don't think anyone wants to see a Jedi/Sith duel during the festivities!

An Apology to Sophia and WordPlay Saturday

Well, now that Darth Bill has extended his hand in peace to Master Jedi Zack, we'll probably have a little quiet for a while. At least long enough for them (and you!) to read Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli and write about it. That gives me time to make an admission--I owe an apology to Sophia, one of the girls at Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy who have tried the hostile takeover of our blog. I'd written about the mean and sneaky girls who attempted this vicious takeover but I met Spophia last Friday when I happened to be at MRSA and she is very nice. (Her friend Mary wasn't there but I found out that she's nice also) I felt bad for what I'd written, so I apologized to her then and apologize to all the girls at MRSA now. They are all very nice.

So why, then, do they want to attempt a hostile takeover of our blog? They're all so nice--why would they try to invade and conquer our beloved home? This puzzled me for a long time. Then I figured it out--they are so awestruck by the greatness of boys that they want to enter our territory and find out what makes us so great!! Of course!!! They are so amazed at all the books we've read and how good our reviews have been that they want to join us! Why, then, we welcome you!. Send in those reviews. The more you send, the more you'll be like us!! And, please, all you boys at MRSA and everywhere else, send in more reviews so that the girls will see how great and cool we truly are!!!!!

Let me take this opportunity to tell you about something really fun: our WordPlay Saturday here at Imaginon. It will be Saturday, October 11. There will be bands, activities, crafts, and lots of fun stuff. There will also be some authors who'll speak and answer questions and sign books, including Charles R. Smith, Jr., who writes poems about sports, and graphic novel author Josh Elder (who does Mail Order Ninja and The Batman Strikes). Click here and here to find out more and even see a video about it! The Book Brunch with the authors will be from 9:30 am--11:00 am, WordPlay will be from 11:00 am--4:00 pm, and the authors will sign books from 11:30 am--1:oo pm.

Hope to see you there,

Carl