Who is this Woman?

...and what does she have to do with the next month of your life? Why it's the lovely C.E. Murphy, or as we like to call her, January Selection. The votes have been tallied and in a close horse race, Heart of Stone has been selected as the first ever book for the League of Reluctant Adults Book Club.

Please limit your applause to a polite clap or two, we've got business to discuss up in here.

Lest this be your average, run of the mill book club, we have engaged the services of a wandering band of hellspawn to keep things interesting (They may or may not respond to the name Gary). They'll pop in from time to time, when not busy toiling in the pits of despair, forging objects of torture and ridicule for sale in the Hellmarkets of depravity. So beware of becoming too serious.

That's frowned upon.

Again, we're so excited to be reading Hearts of Stone. I'm planning on using a notecard as a bookmark so I can jot down questions like: Are gargoyles always hard? and Does fear of heights effect their performance award?

Things like that.

And!

We might be able to convince the author to troll the discussion and give up the inside scoop on the scenes that didn't make it into the book--like a DVD extras scenario. Or not, I'm just talking out of my ass here.

So, let's give it a good month and leave the last week of January open for discussion. Oh...and be thinking about the next book you want to read. We're going to leave the nominations for the February book up to the readers (we'll probably vote on that mid-January)!