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This is Andrew Shaffer, creative director of greeting card publisher Order of St. Nick and author of the forthcoming Harper Perennial paperback original Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love. This is his blog.

 

Disclosure: Book reviews may be based on advance reading copies supplied by publishers. Also, Andrew's first book is being published this fall by HarperCollins, so there's a chance he might be biased towards their products. On a completely unrelated note, be sure to pick up Sarah Palin's memoir, which the author believes to be a "compelling read."

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About Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer is the creative director of Order of St. Nick, the greeting card company whose irreverent cards have been featured on a variety of popular media outlets including The Colbert Report, The Washington Post, and TIME.com. He has also been interviewed on FOX News’s FOX and Friends and on CBS’s The Early Show.

He has a graduate degree from the University of Iowa, where he also attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for a summer semester. He lives in Iowa with his wife.

Harper Perennial will publish Shaffer’s first non-fiction book, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, as a trade paperback original in fall 2010. His published fiction includes the short stories “Dead Ball” in the Australian anthology Zombies (Altair Australia: 2007) and “72” in the online science fiction journal Sputnik 57.