who? huh?

My name is Carolyn Kellogg, which you could probably ascertain from the domain. I’m an LA Times staff writer who covers books and publishing and leads our book blog  Jacket Copy. I’m now on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. I was once editor of LAist, web editor at Marketplace and, many years ago, managing editor of Woodstock.com (the riot-and-fires year). I live in Los Angeles, and my address changed in the summer of 2010 — if you’re interested in sending me review copies (thanks!) or contacting me for any other reason, please email me at paperhaus [at] gmail.com.

I began blogging about books in 2004, when I had an internet radio show and podcast that was part music, part books. Some weeks, an author would guest DJ. Because my job at the time was pretty darn formal, I needed a pseudonym: Pinky’s Paperhaus was my show name. Then my blog name. Then I left the job, dyed my hair red, and people started calling me Pinky.

Now my hair has changed, and you’re welcome to call me Carolyn. I can be found @paperhaus on Twitter, and am on Facebook and Goodreads and Flickr and other places online. I can be seen discussing publishing in this C-SPAN2 video of a BEA2010 panel and heard interviewing Richard Russo for the LA Public Library’s ALOUD series.

As I’ve been at this for a while, I know that blogs change shape. For a while I thought I might stop blogging about books here, but I’m a huge book geek. So the blogging continues, books and all.