News: It's not too early to start talking about a great Halloween book which is one where I have an important advisory part. It's a ghost story, naturally, which you could read right now and not explode, except from fright and laughter. Also, another one already on the shelves is Tery Ordway's story which maybe I mentioned before got that nice long review in School Library Journal, a place where librarians find good stuff for kids to read, is a huge big success.

   But the big news I am sneaking in here is about my own great book about a really weird woman who nobody ever saw in the daytime and who got a lot of money out of us dumb Balonaclucks supposably to publish our poetry which never got published. So I wrote this weird book about her and stuff. It's coming out in October, so you could read it and Community Spirits, together, except you could read Community Spirits right now.

    A new BalonaBook coming out in November has Mr. Don Keyshot telling about his fun and painful adventures in Balona. Mr. Keyshot mentions me by name in the book which is titled, A Perched-in Soul, and tells how I'm a pretty good journalist, etc. He also talks about my journalistic rival, Mrs. Bellona Shaw, but enough already about her.

   I said before, you can buy books right on this Web site on PayPal with your credit card. You could, for example, find a good story about real rich Claire and me who is not so rich. Buds is really pretty good. Also,now that my Pales are gone, I would also feel a lot better if you will e-mail me and tell me if you like my blog.     Patella's E-Mail