Cindy Lynn Speer's Blog, page 65
July 30, 2015
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drxgonfly: Middle Falls Of Letchworth State Park (by Mark Papke) I really loved the walk through Letchworth. A very nice park with amazing falls.
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etherealvistas: Delicate by (Australia) Mieke Boynton || Website || Facebook This looks magical. Dragons must live here.
July 29, 2015
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readthebloodybook: Not only reviews promote books. Photos, memes, edits, random posts of book-love, quotes, fan art, tags all promote books too. Reviews are not the only way to promote books we love but they seem to be the only method …
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banshy: Firestones | Øystein Otterdal
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Love the cover for this – I’m going to try and read this sometime this week. http://publishing.dragonwell.org/inde...
July 28, 2015
Love of Legitimacy
So, who has two thumbs and a brand new membership to Romance Writers of America? This girl. I am also trying to figure out if I am able to join Science Fiction Writers of America, but am unsure. (I write a combination of Fantasy/romance/mystery so I could, technically, belong to all three.) Why is this so important, you might be wondering. I mean, I belonged to other organizations, Epic and Broad Universe (I need to rejoin at least one of them…I let the memberships lapse because I was crap at utilizing them) so why am I jumping up and down about this? Mostly, because legitimacy is hard to gain in the publishing world. You work hard, you create a perfect piece of work that has as much right to shelf space as any other book, and you just do whatever you can to get that book in front of people. I’ve been lucky with my publishers — Dragonwell, in particular is doing some really wonderful things — and these independent publishers work just as hard to put out quality work as the big boys in New York do. You get your book, and you think, I might not have as many readers as Neil Gaiman, but I am now his equal! We are both published authors! But you are wrong. There are all sorts of little things that tell you that you’re not. And one of them, at least up to recently, has been the fact that the major writer’s organizations wouldn’t let you in. For ages, small press authors and self published authors were told no, you can’t hang with us, because no one judged that you were good enough to be published with the big presses. Which, considering the amount of things that are written, is kind of unfair. Thankfully, that attitude is changing. Now I feel a little more real, a little more like a legit author. Which is silly…I am well published, well reviewed, well loved. But still. It is a good feeling.
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jade-cooper: Art by Geoff Hunt marine and cover artist, best known for his covers for C.S. Forester’s “Hornblower” and Patrick O’Brian’s “Master and Commander” novels. Beautiful.
July 27, 2015
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art-of-swords: Shamshir Sword Dated: 18th century Measurements: aprox. length 30 inches (76.2cm) Source: Copyright © 2015 Caravana Collection
Art Historic Asks
Classical: If you were an Olympian god, what would you be known for? Byzantine: Do you prefer gold or silver accessories? Medieval: Are you religious? Gothic: What is your favourite historic building? Renaissance: Have you ever had a time in …
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houghtonlib: “Escrime” Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences, 1751. H 5690.799.60 Houghton Library, Harvard University
