Jenn Northington is a very busy person. She reads, writes, tweets, sells, markets, blogs, supports, and slings computer code (we think) for The King’s English. Lately, and due entirely to the one-chance-in-a-million occurrence of some inadequate (read: horrible) proofreading here at Ides HQ, Jenn has been considering the enthusiastic study of infections and infectious diseases among great authors of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sue Fleming has completed a very satisfactory, successful career as a nurse with communities, hospitals, colleges and for the Utah Army National Guard. Why is a retired nurse working in a bookstore? Beside the U.S. Economy? Sue loves working at The King’s English and is having tons of fun catching up on children’s literature, for which her two teenage boys should be darn grateful. Hopefully, Sue can weigh in on Jenn Northington’s current consideration of a new hobby.
Brian Seethaler combined a passion for supporting nonprofit organizations with a bunch of really great ideas that other people have already had and took credit for the whole mash up by founding the Ides of March Madness Charity Book Reading Tournament last year. Despite his rambling, nonsensical reviews from the 08 tourney and his complete inability to craft anything clever with pen or keyboard, Brian has been able to hang on for another year and be allowed to adjudicate an “easy” early round in this year’s event.
Anne Holman still marvels that a person can actually have a JOB where books and people could come together and one could actually earn money doing it. Of course, one might argue that much of the pleasant satisfaction she derives from her work at TKE is related to one particular tidbit: she is in charge. A reader since she’s been old enough to hold a book, Anne brings much needed and well received adult guidance to this year’s Ides efforts.
