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Awwww, that is so nice of you not to tell them you ghost wrote for me for 2 years. Happy news and happy new year!
End of an era... or maybe an episode
I can’t believe this is my last blog post of 2010. Where did the year go? Where did the decade go? Come to that, where did my life go? Not only is it my last post of the year; it’s also the last Wednesday after a Barbara Poelle Tuesday. Fortunately I’m the least competitive person in the world,...
Happy and Safe Holiday Wishes
Posted Dec 21, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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A Final Memo From the Desk of Inga VonPeepenskeeven
Posted Dec 14, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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And Then There Were Four
by Barbara Poelle So after a lot of soul searching (yes, that is always accompanied by the sound of the martini shaker) I have realized that my time here on Tuesdays at Dead Guy has come to its natural end... Continue reading
Posted Dec 7, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Have You Seen These People?
by Barbara Poelle So I recently did a juice cleanse and the 72 hours of sobriety were an absolute REVELATION. Don’t worry, I won’t be doing THAT again. But after the initial shock at realizing potato vodka doesn't actually qualify... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Tryptophan the Light Fantastic
Posted Nov 22, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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And the winner is...DAISY! Just showing up is half the battle! YAY! But I would be remiss if I didn't also tip my hat to Allan Leverone as runner up- I will connect with you to get you CJ's books!GREAT ADVICE ACROSS THE BOARD GANG... Happy Writing!
Mother DID Know Best
by Barbara Poelle I returned from debauchery and a subsequent liver transplant to a few grumblings that my last entry was “TL, DR”. Since I refuse to acknowledge acronyms, I can only assume that means, “Totally Lambastic, Don’t Re-Sober!” (Yes, only two of those words are recognized as English, ...
Mother DID Know Best
by Barbara Poelle I returned from debauchery and a subsequent liver transplant to a few grumblings that my last entry was “TL, DR”. Since I refuse to acknowledge acronyms, I can only assume that means, “Totally Lambastic, Don’t Re-Sober!” (Yes,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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From the Desk of Inga VonPeepenskeeven
Dear Sashay McAdverb, interviewer for Aspiring Pens, I hope that your telephone interview this morning with my boss, Barbara Poelle, and her colleague Zolly Woot, went as well as could be considering that Ms. Poelle is in Mexico on her... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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How Tweet it Is
By Barbara Poelle Once when I was 9, my friend Sarah and I secretly climbed up on her roof and built a fort where the upstairs eve hung over the lower level one. We ran an extension cord out of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Latin and London and Love- An Expert Speaks.
by Barbara Poelle Say it with me: Benedict Cumberbatch, will you marry me? Alright, technically since I am already married, I’ll have to offer up someone in utero instead. (Yup, that’s a real Latin term. It means “instead”, like: “They... Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Best. Conference. Ever.
Posted Oct 18, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Ten Little Murderers Are My Bffs
By Barbara Poelle Sometimes you invite your dearest friends over for a murder mystery party and then sometimes there is a thunderstorm with vibrant lightening and timpani thunder and you keep yelling, “OMG guys it’s like I’m really going to... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Oh, and I'm a Former Olympic Gymnast
by Barbara Poelle I had a tête-à-tête with an editor yesterday where I asked for a thing or two and she replied something to the effect of, “Why yes! You can…..IN OPPOSITE LAND.” Later that day -as I am sure... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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It Had Eight Arms to Hold Me
by Barbara Poelle So, um. I have an idea. Let’s talk about excess. Like, how, oh I dunno, for example, say maybe someone who is not 22 anymore decides that it would be a great idea to attend two Sharktopus... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Modeling Parabolic Flight in the Context of Fictive Subaquatic Biology
by Barbara Poelle In reading Susan Casey’s comprehensive and compelling work on global wave influence and the impact said water behavior has on costal and environmental markers, one is both engaged and awed with her prose. THE WAVE is one... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Long Winded Short Cuts
by Barbara Poelle Yesterday I was on the elevator heading down to the lobby and it stopped on the 6th floor. The doors slid open. There was a pause. Then, a large black fly lazily boarded. The doors closed. We... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Slapping is a Moment...Family is Forever
By Barbara Poelle At first glance, my grandmother, my mother, my sister and I all have similar tastes in reading. We like genre fiction, upmarket prose and a protagonist that we can feel both voyeuristic and empathetic towards. We are... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Killing Me With Kindness
by Barbara Poelle I have seen some examples of what being nice can do for you in this last month that have left me confused at the overall concept of niceness. Example #1: Agent Lovely is kind to an author... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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I Tot I Taw 140 Characters
by Barbara Poelle So, I don’t Facebook or Twitter or My Space, I'm not LinkedIn, and this is the only blog I play nice on, and that’s only one day a week. So far I have managed to happily avoid... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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From the Desk of Inga VonPeepenskeeven
Confidential Internal Office Memo Interns, you have done a fine job so far this summer- especially those of you involved in the near fiasco we’ll just call the Home Waxing Kit. However, those of you who have survived, you have... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Neesie and Yeti and Skadge, Oh My(Tai)
Posted Aug 3, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Ain’t No Cure...Except for This
By Barbara Poelle I got an email from a colleague recently that just said, “Is this March?” Now because you don’t speak Death Kitten, I will translate: March was a tough month for me. I felt like I was zipped... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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Sharktionary Volume One
Posted Jul 20, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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RUNNING FROM THE SKADGER
by Barbara Poelle Thrillerfest was an actual thrill this weekend as my author Jamie Freveletti walked with the ITW Award for best debut for RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL. Hurrah! All hail the Freveletti! Doesn’t that make you ALSO want to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2010 at Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
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