Tonight, I’m giving a talk, reading and signing for my book Little Brother in Mequon, WI, outside of Milwaukee — hope to see you there:

HARRY W. SCHWARTZ BOOKSHOP
10976 N. Port Washington Rd.
Mequon, WI 53092
PH: 262-241-6220
7PM-8:30PM

Link to tour schedule

Tonight, I’m giving a talk, reading and signing for my book Little Brother in Mequon, WI, outside of Milwaukee — hope to see you there:

HARRY W. SCHWARTZ BOOKSHOP
10976 N. Port Washington Rd.
Mequon, WI 53092
PH: 262-241-6220
7PM-8:30PM

Link to tour schedule

‘Scuse me while I bask: Little Brother, just hit the New York Times Kids bestseller list (#9) and the Booksense Children’s Interest bestseller list (#14) and I’m about to splode with joy! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to all the readers who helped put it there!

(Image: Pablo Defendini’s sketch for the Little Brother paperback)

Instructables has just posted the latest installment in their series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother (remember, you can get on BBtv with your own videos demonstrating these).

Today, the subject is using encrypting your Gmail messages:

The principle behind GPG encryption is easy. Anyone who wants to play creates a public key and a private key. Your public key is the part of the encryption that you make public. Your private key is the part of the encryption that you never share with anyone under any circumstance.

The two keys work together so that you need both to decrypt anything. To send an encrypted message to someone you lock the message with their public key and when they get it, they can unlock it with their private key. If they want to respond, then they encode the message with your public key and you can read it with your private key.

Of course, this only works so long as you can trust that you have been given the right public key and that you know who you are talking to. One of doing this is by having a key signing party with your close friends. You all show up at a given location at a given time and exchange public keys. Then you have a list of trusted public keys with which you can communicate. This is often referred to as a web of trust.

Link, Link to other Instructables feed

See also:

The awesome science fiction podcast StarShipSofa is the latest feed to roll in an excerpt from the Little Brother audiobook. If you’ve got a podcast and you want to excerpt some Little Brother audiobook, drop me a line!)

I’ve been on my Little Brother book-tour for two days (doing school appearances around Chicago), and for the next two nights, I’ll be doing public events at Chicago area bookstores:

Tonight (Wednesday, May 14):
Anderson’s Bookshops, Naperville, IL
123 West Jefferson Avenue
Naperville, IL 60540
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
7:00 pm

Tomorrow (Thursday, May 15):
Barnes & Noble, Chicago, IL
1441 W. Webster Street
Chicago, IL 60614
Thursday, May 15, 2008
7:30 pm

Hope to see you there!

(Image: Little Brother Sketch, a concept for the Little Brother paperback cover art posted by Tor’s Assistant Mass-Market Art Director, Pablo Defendini)