Entries by AJ Cattapan

Monday Book Review: Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove by “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

The full title of this book is Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove: A Mystery with a Blinking, Beeping, Voice-Recording Gadget Glove You Can Build Yourself. Whew! How’s that for a title! It’s the first of my 2015 Edgar-nominated books to review. Title: Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove: A Mystery with a Blinking, Beeping, […]

Your Birthday Is Not About You

On this week’s Spin Cycle, our topic is “Birthdays: Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em?” I’ve had kind of a bad history with birthdays, so I tend not to like them. I know this baffles some of my friends a bit, but perhaps these two stories will shed a little light on why, when my birthday […]

My To-Be-Read Pile

This past Monday I didn’t get a Monday Book Review posted. I did, however, trek on out to my local public library to pick up some new books after getting my car out of the aftereffects of the Blizzard of 2015. Parking at the library was at a premium since they hadn’t managed to plow […]

New Headshot chosen!

Thanks to all who voted to help me pick a new headshot! I would have been staring at them for days if it hadn’t been for your votes. As my sisters-in-law like to say, I would’ve been suffering from Cattapanalysis Paralysis (the state in which a Cattapan over-analyzes so much that he or she becomes […]

Help me pick a headshot!

In getting ready for my book release, I had some new headshots taken last month at Popio Stumpf Photography. Chris Popio did such an awesome job that I’m having trouble choosing. Can you help me pick a headshot to use for my book and social media? I got it narrowed down from 300 shots to […]

Spin Cycle: Traveling

This week Ginny Marie is asking us to write about traveling for the Spin Cycle. Great! I love to travel. In fact, I’ll be heading to Guatemala for spring break, and if I can get wifi down there, I’ll probably even doing a little blogging. But for this week, Ginny has given us a choice […]

Finding Your God-Given Creativity

Last night I had the pleasure of being the speaker at the second week of the Winter Wine Series sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry – Northwest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. My topic was “Finding Your God-Given Creativity,” and I had a lot of fun! As I promised some of the attendants, here’s info […]

January Giveaway: Live and In-Person!

For the past six months or so, I’ve been doing a monthly giveaway in order to celebrate the release of my upcoming YA book, Angelhood. These giveaways have been run mostly on my Facebook page, but this month, the giveaway will be in person. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, I’ll be speaking at St. Emily […]