Celine Kiernan's Blog, page 35
June 23, 2010
A Cornucopia of Razis
Behold, All your Razis! So many fantastic choices…
HOW DO WE CHOOSE?
All the Very Many Wynters
So The Rebel Prince competition is closed folks* and we are currently sifting and sorting our way through the photos. I thought you might like to see all our prospective Wynters** all together in one go. You may notice a few repeats in there ( I kept the duplicates small) this is because quite a few folks sent the same photo. If it turns out that we choose a photo which was sent more than once, we're going to judge the winner as the person who made the most effort ( wrote a little piece...
June 19, 2010
Joy and 'The Same Unusual Vowel Shortage.'
Joy's Choice for Marni. (Brenda Fricker)
Many thanks to Joy who sent me just the most entertaining entry to the Rebel Prince competition yesterday. Not only did she cast Wynter, Christopher and Razi, but it feels like she cast the entire crew of The Poison Throne! What fun. I have so many 'extras' cast now that I've decided I'm going to do a wee post after the competition showing all the various 'other' characters that folks have sent along with their entries. Some of them are hilarious - I ...
June 17, 2010
Perfume, and Only Five Days Left
Sorry I've been so quiet recently I have been knackered and wan, and generally lolling about like a great useless blob. Yesterday I did practically nothing but read. I did watch the film adaptation of 'Perfume' though.
Rachel Hurd-Wood as Laure in Perfume
Not sure what I thought of the film - maybe it would have helped had I not read Patrick Süskind's book beforehand? After the book ( which I had thought would be unfilmable) I think this visually beautiful movie feels a little surface. I...
June 13, 2010
Christopher's Mama?
I got such a fun e-mail today that I had to share it. I've been exchanging e-mails with the lovely and talented Eve Laur ( the award winning Estonian translator of Phillip Pullman's Dark Material's Trilogy) We've been chatting about the Rebel Prince Competition and all the fun I've been having looking at the entries and how different they all are from each other, and how difficult it is to get characters right in graphic novels etc etc etc
Anni Arro
ANYHOO, this morning Eve sent me this...
June 10, 2010
Graphic Novel Workshop, Bantry
Workshops terrify me. Not the actual workshop itsself - I'm always ok once I'm there and in the room with the participants - just the anticipation of hosting one shivels my spine. And yet I keep agreeing to do them. So, I'm currently a ball of barely contained nerves as I get the curriculum together for the Graphic Novel Workshop I'll be hosting in Bantry this year.
ARGH! ( as they say in the funny papers) I feel all at sea. Pretty much like Thomas and his mates swanning about on shoreleave - ...
June 6, 2010
Hayden!
Speak of the devil! Do you remember in the last post I said that the lovely Laura may well have been pipped at the post as my youngest reader by a young man whose name I mercilessly misspelled as Hyden? Well, HAYden* e-mailed me to say hello, and to tell me that he was in fact 9 when he first read The Poison Throne. ( NINE! and I know he really read it too because I was chatting to him about it at a book signing.
He also sent me this fantastic photograph which his Mam took on her mobile...
June 4, 2010
Letter from Laura, part two.
Laura's drawing of Wynter
You may recall earlier this year Laura wrote to me asking some questions about The Poison Throne. Well, I was delighted to get another letter from Laura yesterday. This time she has asked some great questions about The Crowded Shadows, and also drew me this fantastic picture of Wynter. (Isn't it wonderful? Look at that hair!)
Laura is one of my youngest readers, as she was only just 11 when she read Poison Throne and has only just turned 12 in April. ( though she is...
June 1, 2010
Crowded Shadows Publishers Weekly Staff Pick!
Well known and respected Publisher's Weekly editor Rose Fox has chosen THE CROWDED SHADOWS as her Staff Pick for summer 2010! She had these fantastic things to say about it:
PW staff pick!
Someone must have bet Kiernan that she couldn't write a really good epic fantasy featuring a redheaded 15-year-old cat-whisperer heroine named (no kidding) Wynter Moorehawke. Against all odds, Kiernan won. Manipulative ghosts, PTSD-shadowed romance, complex race relations, and appendectomies in the middle of...
Crowded Shadows chosen as BEA Publishers Weekly Staff Pick!
Publisher's Weekly reviewer Rose Fox has chosen THE CROWDED SHADOWS as her Staff Pick for summer 2010! She had these fantastic things to say about it:
PW staff pick!
Someone must have bet Kiernan that she couldn't write a really good epic fantasy featuring a redheaded 15-year-old cat-whisperer heroine named (no kidding) Wynter Moorehawke. Against all odds, Kiernan won. Manipulative ghosts, PTSD-shadowed romance, complex race relations, and appendectomies in the middle of the forest make the...
