Yesterday, I nearly killed Holly Black's coffee pot.

It began to wheeze and fill up at the top with brown water and refused to drip actual coffee into the carafe. Somehow I had managed to clog it up and my repeated attempts at resuscitating it were unsuccessful. Like "approaching catastrophic" unsuccessful.

I tweeted my distress and Cassie Clare tweeted back (with a certain sense of mirth, I feel), "Better run! Holly loves that coffee pot more than any human." Which was super helpful. Thanks,...