Friday's Author Blogging Roundup

The last several posts to this site have been contest alerts.  I'm working on getting a new author interview up soon. In the meantime, here's a roundup of author blogs for Friday (note: not all of these posts are new, but all are well worth reading):

Barbara Delinsky, asks, "Has Your Life Gone According to Plan?"... Jacquelyn Mitchard wrestles with the decision to dress her daughters in geisha costumes for Halloween... Marly Youmans puts out a call for poetry and prose about insects... Janice Erlbaum buys sweaters for homeless cats... Brendan Halpin tries to start a literary feud... Billy Mernit reviews "Dan in Real Life"... Phil Town weighs in on whether Walgreen's is a stock to buy... Tod Goldberg gets angry at his DVR [warning: strong language]... Pam Ribon, a writer for "Samantha Who?", chronicles her picket-line experiences in Hollywood... and Chris Anderson ponders the promotional value of authors giving things away for free. [More on this later!]