Thanks to everyone who applied for free tickets to Book Expo America VIP tickets for 2016. These have now all been claimed.

If you wanted a free pass but were unable to get one, I still highly recommend going to BEA — it’s a great show and a lot of fun, plus I’ll be speaking there on Friday. Bookcon (which is the day after) looks great, too, and I plan to be there as well.

Remember that if you like comics and pop culture, librarians, educators, and other pros can still apply for a free Friday badge for C2E2.

Gene and I are settling into a nice rhythm with our audio commentary - we just posted all the Library Mascot Cage Match episodes. Several fans have told us how much they enjoy listening to these even without the book in front of them, so if that’s been holding you back we encourage you to dive in.

P.S. If you do want to follow along, you can get paper or digital editions of our books.