Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's Blog: #42 Pencil: A Writer's Life, the Universe, and Everything, page 60

Shiny Alert: Vonda McIntyre’s The Moon and the Sun update

Pierce Brosnan as Louis XIV

This is an official BVC shiny alert!

We now have photographic evidence! That is Pierce Brosnan on that lovely white horse as he plays Louis Quatorze in the movie adaptation ofVonda McIntyre’s bookTHE MOON and the SUN.

In case you missed the initial post, the Screen Daily wrote:

The fantasy-adventure centres on imagined events during the reign of King Louis XIV as the French leader’s bid for immortality leads him to capture and attempt to steal the life force from a mer...

POETS Day: Masks

Mask Shop in Venice

We are all mask-makers.

Fear teaches us the art,

And time holds them up for us to dance among,

Changing our faces

To face other gazes.

In saints and bodhisattvas

They disappear.

Some masks are

Gauzy,

Thin.

But more are darkling thick, encrusted with past pain,

Obscuring us from others

And others from us.

For the backs of such masks are mirrors.

Photo credit: NateBW, Flickr, Creative Commons

Writing Retreat, Part 2: Two Views of My Novel

Last Friday I wrote about my recent writing retreat on Cape Cod. I have a few more thoughts that I’d like to share. Today’s is mostly visual.

Every day I was there, I took a beach walk. I found this rock on the first day of my retreat, a sea-scoured nugget of quartz. It seemed to me a perfect metaphor for my first draft: a gem (or crystal, anyway) in the rough, all of its facets and inner beauty temporarily concealed. I probably won’t polish the crystal, but I will polish the novel. In fact, w...

Legal Fictions: Why Is the Alliance Evil?

I just watched Serenity again. I’m a huge Joss Whedon fan, and while I would have preferred 8 years of Firefly to a movie – I love good serial storytelling – Serenity is an excellent movie.

Unlike the recent Veronica Mars movie, it isn’t just a continuation of the show for the benefit of the fans but a real telling of the underlying story in a way that fits the constraints of the big screen.

But on this viewing I got to thinking about how the Alliance is portrayed as both monolithic and evil –...

WWW Wednesday 4-2-2014

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you recently finish reading?

• What do you think you’ll read next?

• What are you currently reading?

GARMENT OF SHADOWS by Laurie King. I have an odd relationship with this series – I read the first one, THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE, before it even came out – I got hold of a copy from the publisher and started jumping up and down saying “we need...

#Watched100times: Lost loved movies

roly poly fish heads

This more properly should be called “I would have watched it 100 times.” I saw each of these movies once, and fell so madly in love that I have never forgotten them.

Sometimes I think I step into these wormholes where only I and half a dozen other crazies get to see a film…and then it vanishes forever.

Mike Jittlov’s brainchild also comes in a full-length feature

Pourquoi Pas! or Why Not? I don’t even remember where I saw it. It’s just adorable. Two young men and a young woma...

Engulf+Devour Acquires Book View Café

In a hostile takeover involving dragons, AK-47s, orcs, and a 1983 DeLorean, Engulf + Devour has acquired Book View Cafe in a five finger deal. Their relationship commences with the blockbuster series The Throne Games: fight, fuck, or die! A plucky band of misfit contestants–a wisecracking gay guy, a lesbian in a wheelchair, a mystical person of color, a handsome het white guy with two day stubble, and a woman who thinks her high cheekbones, purple irises, and thin body are hideous–are chosen...

Filming Begins on Sequel to Science Fiction Classic

In collaboration with Michael Bey, BVC Productions begins filming this month the long-awaited sequel to the science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet. Hands Off My Asteroid will be helmed by the late Phil Tucker (best remembered for his 1953 classic, Robot Monster), and will star Adam Sandler in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head as Robby the Robot.

BVC Productions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Renegade, a recently formed outcropping taking advantage of Bermudan loopholes in int...

Book View Café to Merge With BehemothCo

Top New York publisher BehemothCo and Book View Cafe have announced today that they are merging. Recognizing the business success of the spunky author-run publishing co-op, which just last month added an Oregon Book Award winner, a Nebula nominee, and an accomplished cat herder to its laurels, BehemothCo has announced that it will now sell all books DRM-free, increase its ebook royalties to authors to 75% after setup costs are realized, and will require all newly acquired authors to learn to...

Diamond Brides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baseball

Reader, I married a baseball fan.

To be clear: My husband doesn’t just enjoy baseball. He doesn’t just appreciate a beer and a dog and nine innings on a hot summer night.

My husband participates in a fantasy baseball league that drafts an entire team roster – down to the 25th man. My husband remembers specific plays from games that he watched – live or on TV – more than a decade ago. My husband was politely asked not to continue participating in a trivia game at the Baseball Hall of Fame becaus...