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Happy 4th of July, my American friends!

To my British friends--don't feel too bad. You may have lost America, but you still have Chesney Hawkes!

Gravity's Rainbow Readalong

Moonrat's Editorial Mischief Hall of Fame

The Editorial Mischief is a group of bloggers who have been hanging about these parts for some time now (a "mischief" is a group of rats). We share our knowledge about and experience with the publishing industry here, and offer one another our help, support, advice, and encouragement. To be a part, just stick around.

The Mischief has a much higher than average success rate in the publishing industry. Because we are all individually so awesome, our collective awesomeness is even greater than the sum of our parts.

Here, in reverse chronological order, are some of the exciting things that have happened in The Mischief since November 2006:

March 31, 2009: Jaye Wells's debut, Red-Headed Stepchild, hits stores everywhere.

March 3, 2009: Wendy Cebula signs with Rebecca Strauss at McIntosh & Otis.

December 2, 2008: Kate Lord Brown signs with Sheila Crowley of Curtis Brown Ltd.

November 25, 2008: Sarah Hina's debut novel, PLUM BLOSSOMS IN PARIS, was picked up by Medallion Press.

November 23, 2008: Kelsey Timmerman's nonfiction debut, WHERE AM I WEARING? hit stores nationwide.

November 20, 2008: Stuart Neville's debut novel, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST, was picked up for US publication by Soho Press.

November 6, 2008: Kimberley Griffiths Little sells three books, THE HEALING SPELL, SECRET RITES OF THE GODDESS, and THE TRAITEUR'S DAUGHTER, to Scholastic.

September 25, 2008: Christy Raedeke sells her YA novel, PROPHECY OF DAYS, to Flux in a two-book deal.

September 17, 2008: Guadalupe McCall sells her YA novel, A MESQUITE IN THE ROSE GARDEN, to Emily Hazel at Lee and Low Books for publication in Fall 2010.

September 15, 2008: Ello signs with Bill Contardi at Brandt & Hochman for representation of her debut YA novel.

September 5, 2008: Andromeda Romano-Lax's debut novel, THE SPANISH BOW, was released in paperback.

August 12, 2008: Amy MacKinnon's debut novel, TETHERED, published by Shaye Areheart Books/RH, hits stores nationwide.

August 5, 2008: Stuart Neville sells his debut novel, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST, in a two-book deal to Harvill Secker/RHUK.

May 27, 2008: Cindy Pon sells three books to Greenwillow (Harper Collins), the YA novel SILVER PHOENIX, its sequel, and a children's picture book of her brush paintings.

May 14, 2008: Stuart Neville signs with agent Nat Sobel at the Sobel Weber Associates.

March 27, 2008: Marie Mutsuki Mockett sells her debut novel, PICKING BONES FROM ASH, to Graywolf Press. Her Book will be published in Fall 2009.

January 24, 2008: Jaye Wells sells three books to Orbit US. Her first book, RED-HEADED STEPCHILD, comes out in 2009.

November 28, 2007: Aprilynne Pike sells four books to Harper Teen. Her first book, AUTUMN WINGS, comes out in 2009.

Project Fill-in-the-Gaps

Red means "read" (past tense)

1. Native Son, Richard Wright (04/19/09)

2. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

4. Watership Down, Richard Adams

5. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow

6. Middlemarch, George Eliot (06/12/09)

7. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (06/15/09)

8. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence

9. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles

10. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

11. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (05/26/09)

12. Moby Dick, Herman Melville

13. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

14. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. Foundation, Isaac Asimov

16. House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

17. Persuasion, Jane Austen

18. Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

19. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

20. Dead Zone, Stephen King

21. Underworld, Don DeLillo

22. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

23. Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust

24. Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham

25. Bless the Beasts and Children, Glendon Swarthout

26. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (05/06/09)

27. While I Was Gone, Sue Miller

28. American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld (04/09/09)

29. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. Horace, George Sand

31. Digging to America, Anne Tyler

32. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (09/07/09)

33. War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy

34. East of Eden, John Steinbeck

35. A Light in August, William Faulkner

36. The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer

37. The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing

38. Memoirs of a Good Daughter, Simone DeBeauvoir

39. Carry On, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse

40. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong-Kingston

41. Gotham, Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace

42. A Fable, William Faulkner

43. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

44. American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

45. Finnigan’s Wake, James Joyce

46. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron

47. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver

48. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

49. The Plague, Albert Camus

50. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West (04/20/09)

51. White Teeth, Zadie Smith

52. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott

53. Push, Sapphire (08/14/09)

54. Farming the Bones, Edwidge Danticat

55. Silence, Shusaku Endo

56. Ulysses, James Joyce

57. Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima

58. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

59. The Known World, Edward P. Jones

60. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki (06/25/09)

61. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (04/08/09)

62. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (04/05/09)

63. My Antonia, Willa Cather

64. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

65. The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende

66. Herzog, Saul Bellow

67. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

68. The Boat, Nam Le

69. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

70. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein

71. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (06/20/09)

72. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

73. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (04/28/09)

74. Possession, A.S. Byatt

75. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch

76. Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson

77. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

78. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami

79. Runaway, Alice Munro

80. In America, Susan Sontag

81. The Stories of John Cheever

82. God’s War, Christopher Tyerman

83. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

84. A Model World, Michael Chabon

85. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (07/21/09)

86. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos

87. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

88. American Pastoral, Philip Roth

89. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx

90. The Book Borrower, Alice Mattison (04/04/09)

91. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

92. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (06/07/09)

93. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

94. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill

95. Empire Falls, Richard Russo

96. Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier (03/30/09)

97. March, Geraldine Brooks

98. The Second Sex, Simone DeBeauvoir

99. Gilead, Marilyn Robinson

100. Werewolves in Their Youth, Michael Chabon

Total: 18/100

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