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[1 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
Bureau Chiefs bring you music, comics, and more

Eugene Ahn aka Adam Warrock has been releasing singles in support of a donation drive for his upcoming tour. Head over for great free songs about beer and not watching Dr Who.
Matt Wilson has just launched robot noir comic Copernicus Jones
Also: Monday Movie recut comics -Thor
Fake Criterions takes on Woody Allen
Andrew remembers TV dinners
The Great American Scarf-Off
Dorian reminds the world about an important characteristic of Lex Luthor

Blurbs and Quotes, Featured, Headline »

[8 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]
FakeAPstylebook interview at Fast Company

FakeAPstylebook is featured in the Fast Company article, “Secrets To A Successful Fake Twitter Character.”
With a quarter of a million followers between them, the men and women behind a few of the better faux accounts show us how to create and maintain successful, character-driven Twitter feeds.
Other recent mentions:
14 Hilarious Fake Twitter Accounts You Need To Follow (Business Insider)
Ten Great Fake Twitter Accounts (SFWeekly)
Book Review: “Write More Good” is great (Motivated Grammar)

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline »

[26 Jul 2011 | No Comment | ]
Ask the Bureau Chiefs

All day today you can ask the Bureau Chiefs questions over on Blood-Red Pencil. How have you lived this long without our advice?

Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[13 Jul 2011 | No Comment | ]
5 funny books to beat the heat from NPR

Write More Good is featured in an article on NPR, Laugh Yourself Cool: 5 Funny Books To Beat The Heat by Dan Kois
“Oh, man, it’s so hot out this summer that you have to laugh. No, I mean it — you have to laugh, because if you’re sitting out on the broiling sand reading something funny and you don’t laugh, you bottle it up, it’ll get dangerous quick. In fact, your body temperature will raise 0.001 of a degree for each laugh you fail to emit. (It’s just science.) That …

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline »

[10 Jul 2011 | No Comment | ]
Bureau Chiefs News

From around the blogosphere, I bring you news of the Bureau Chiefs!
Ken Lowery created a blurb poster for Transformers 3 which is a thing of joy and beauty.
Eugene Ahn aka Adam Warrock has released a New Warriors EP
Matt Wilson shares Sponsored Movie Remakes
Andrew Weiss on Phantasy Star 4
Mike Sterling on a box of comics in “Excellent” condition
Have you visited Dorian Wright’s The Daily Donald?

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline »

[23 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Salon interview with Bureau Chief RJ White

Bureau Chief RJ White of Fake Criterions fame is interviewed on Salon.com:
“Not every movie is a masterpiece. But all movies deserve the chance to look like one. That at least is the concept behind Fake Criterions, a popular Tumblr that takes reader submissions for films that should get remade as part of the Criterion Collection series. With theme months and challenges, the site has quickly become one of the more popular user-submitted Tumblrs out there (and was included in Matt Zoller Seitz’ slide show of best movie fan art). We …

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Videos »

[1 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Behind @FakeAPStylebook with Dave Lartigue

Watch Bureau Chief Dave Lartigue read from Write More Good at Mass Live.

Bureau Chief Signings, Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline »

[30 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Bureau Chief Signings and Events

Do you yearn for the chance to meet a Bureau Chief in the flesh? Your desires may finally come true with this list of upcoming book signing events!
Thursday, October 20, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Anna Neatrour will give a talk about Write More Good and social media at the Salt Lake City Library
Friday, June 3, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Benjamin Birdie, Josh Krach, Dr. Andrew Kunka, PhD, and Chris Sims
Park Road Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, June 16 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Dave “Lego” Lartigue
Octavia Books
New Orleans
Signings you wish you attended:
Wednesday, …

Book Excerpts, Featured, Headline »

[20 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
New Write More Good Excerpt Available

The Visual Thesaurus is hosting a newly available excerpt of Write More Good. Now you can learn how to be a better wordsmith.

Bureau Chiefs News, Featured, Headline, Reviews »

[9 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Recent Reviews and Philadelphia Daily News

Time out for a little fun (The Blood-Red Pencil)
Humorous websites for journalists

Fake out: Twitter group writes the book on its grammar spoof (Philadelphia Daily News)