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October 28, 2014
Halloween audio: Seuss and Carroll. Listen now!
It is ready! Our Halloween multi-reader performance of Dr. Seuss' What Was I Scared Of? and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" can be listened to here. It's only 5 minutes long and it's super fun to hear all the voices and accents, so gather your friends (and kids!) around and enjoy.
Super extra thanks to Michael Gordon Shapiro for allowing the use of his beautiful music as the score, as well as for general audio help and for being one of the readers. And great job and a big thank you to all the re...
Super extra thanks to Michael Gordon Shapiro for allowing the use of his beautiful music as the score, as well as for general audio help and for being one of the readers. And great job and a big thank you to all the re...
October 4, 2014
Things I don't miss about the '80s & '90s, music industry edition
Things I don't particularly miss about the '80s and '90s, music industry edition:
1. Having to phone the radio station and ask the DJ in order to find out the name of the song and artist. And then having no way to hear it again that day unless you went to the record store. And even then they might not have it. You kids these days with your YouTube and your Spotify, you're lucky.
2. Having to do a somewhat involved math problem in order to best arrange the songs on a 90-minute mix tape.
3. "Hidde...
1. Having to phone the radio station and ask the DJ in order to find out the name of the song and artist. And then having no way to hear it again that day unless you went to the record store. And even then they might not have it. You kids these days with your YouTube and your Spotify, you're lucky.
2. Having to do a somewhat involved math problem in order to best arrange the songs on a 90-minute mix tape.
3. "Hidde...
October 2, 2014
Halloween read-aloud is back!
Happy October!
I skipped this project last year, but this year am reviving it: the Halloween read-aloud! The selection this year is kid-friendly and only a little bit spooky: What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss (full text here); with a bonus feature, if we have enough readers signing up, of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Sound good? Of course it does!
All ages, voices, and accents welcome and encouraged. Here are the ones we've done before (scroll down to bottom of page)--have a listen to some...
I skipped this project last year, but this year am reviving it: the Halloween read-aloud! The selection this year is kid-friendly and only a little bit spooky: What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss (full text here); with a bonus feature, if we have enough readers signing up, of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Sound good? Of course it does!
All ages, voices, and accents welcome and encouraged. Here are the ones we've done before (scroll down to bottom of page)--have a listen to some...
September 6, 2014
Required courses for Rupert Giles, MLS
For librarians, Buffy fans, or...well, that covers an awful lot of cool people right there. The Toast once again delights me inordinately, this time with a list of courses Rupert Giles had to take:
http://the-toast.net/2014/09/04/rupert-giles-mls/
Unlike with many pages, this time it's a great idea to read the comments too. They are full of the Giles love.
http://the-toast.net/2014/09/04/rupert-giles-mls/
Unlike with many pages, this time it's a great idea to read the comments too. They are full of the Giles love.
August 23, 2014
Oz notes: books and movie and Bechdel tests and stuff
We've been reading L. Frank Baum's Oz books to the kids at bedtime this summer. So far we've read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz and are in the middle of Ozma of Oz. Despite the rather formal and occasionally antiquated narrative and dialogue, the kids seem quite taken with it, just as I was in my childhood. And as a grown-up writer now, I still bow in supreme admiration to Baum's wildly creative imagination. Further notes, adapted from some I posted on Facebook:
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July 10, 2014
Paranormals: the world's oldest literary tradition
Saw this C.S. Lewis quotation today, and it was fitting, for last night I was ruminating again upon how "paranormals" are indeed not some recent shallow fad in fiction, as some people believe, usually those who claim they find deeper meaning in "real" life fiction.
I can write, have written, and will write contemporary ("real life") fiction, and I do read it, and it can indeed be great. But it isn't the only place to find meaning in the world of stories. For what are the oldest known stories p...
June 16, 2014
Link salad
Some things that have made me laugh lately:
Two medieval monks invent maps.
MONK #1: wait remind me of what Asia looks like when you put it all together at once
MONK #2: a big horse with wings that’s about to eat Europe
MONK #1: right right thanks
MONK #2: no problem
Similarly, Western Art History: 500 Years of Women Ignoring Men.
A Benedict Cumberbatch coloring book that just got released on Amazon. "This colouring in activity book celebrates Mr Cumberbatch with a series of black and white drawing...
Two medieval monks invent maps.
MONK #1: wait remind me of what Asia looks like when you put it all together at once
MONK #2: a big horse with wings that’s about to eat Europe
MONK #1: right right thanks
MONK #2: no problem
Similarly, Western Art History: 500 Years of Women Ignoring Men.
A Benedict Cumberbatch coloring book that just got released on Amazon. "This colouring in activity book celebrates Mr Cumberbatch with a series of black and white drawing...
May 31, 2014
My book is a finalist!
RomCon is a pretty darn big convention of romance writers and readers, so I figured it was worth entering Persephone's Orchard in their annual contest--and am now delighted that it's been announced as a 2014 Readers' Crown Finalist in the paranormal category!
All the sub-genres have fairly long lists of finalists, and paranormal is no exception, but I'm still stoked to have made it into the company of these fine writers. Here are all the finalist titles for the paranormal category, in case you...
All the sub-genres have fairly long lists of finalists, and paranormal is no exception, but I'm still stoked to have made it into the company of these fine writers. Here are all the finalist titles for the paranormal category, in case you...
May 14, 2014
Women's fiction? Or just, you know, fiction?
"It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women (Tolstoy as Anna Karenina, Flaubert as Bovary, Richardson as Clarissa, Lawrence as Constance Chatterley, John Berryman as Mistress Bradstreet) they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'--but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.'"
- Erica Jong, introducing Colette in an omnibus of Colette's work, 1974
Kind of discouraging that forty years later we're still blithe...
- Erica Jong, introducing Colette in an omnibus of Colette's work, 1974
Kind of discouraging that forty years later we're still blithe...
April 19, 2014
Underworld's Daughter: cover reveal
The cover for Underworld's Daughter is ready! And it's a beauty.
My editor and I were chuckling at how we ended up using a variety of the "young woman lying on the ground" trope that's fairly common in YA/NA cover art. But I maintain this one works, because, for one thing, people do actually lounge on the ground in my stories and commune with nature (and goddessy forces) often enough. For another, this woman doesn't look like she's in a swoon. She looks powerful and lithe. Like a panther who i...
My editor and I were chuckling at how we ended up using a variety of the "young woman lying on the ground" trope that's fairly common in YA/NA cover art. But I maintain this one works, because, for one thing, people do actually lounge on the ground in my stories and commune with nature (and goddessy forces) often enough. For another, this woman doesn't look like she's in a swoon. She looks powerful and lithe. Like a panther who i...
