Rose Lerner's Blog, page 35
July 28, 2011
If you go nutting on Sunday, the Devil will come and hold the branches down for you
Reading The Folklore of Sussex by Jacqueline Simpson as research for the WIP.
Everyone who has visited Steyning probably knows how St. Cuthman pushed his mother in a wheelbarrow from Devon to Sussex, waiting for some sign from Heaven to show him where he should settle and build a church. As he came into Steyning, [...]
Everyone who has visited Steyning probably knows how St. Cuthman pushed his mother in a wheelbarrow from Devon to Sussex, waiting for some sign from Heaven to show him where he should settle and build a church. As he came into Steyning, [...]
July 25, 2011
EEE!
Sonia made me an illustration for our theory that Lucius Malfoy is a secret sadsack:
He is watching wizarding Days of our Lives! "Don't interrupt Daddy during his stories, Draco!"
He is watching wizarding Days of our Lives! "Don't interrupt Daddy during his stories, Draco!"
July 24, 2011
I'm nobody special.
Drove back from a friend's wedding on Whidbey Island this morning. Very romantic occasion! Sometimes I just need a wedding, and people going on and on about their feelings for each other, and reading vows, and singing each other songs, and dancing, and feeding each other cake, to restore my faith that romance, [...]
July 16, 2011
Lucius Malfoy, Secret Sadsack
WARNING: mild spoilers for the new Harry Potter movie, which I went to see this morning. I may never talk about anything else again.
Sonia and I were discussing that scene in the new movie where Voldemort slaps a sickly, pathetic-looking Lucius Malfoy and says, "How can you live with yourself, Lucius?"
US: Um, he was [...]
Sonia and I were discussing that scene in the new movie where Voldemort slaps a sickly, pathetic-looking Lucius Malfoy and says, "How can you live with yourself, Lucius?"
US: Um, he was [...]
July 12, 2011
Awwww! Just, aw.
So I've mentioned that last week I was staying with my uncle. He has the best library of anyone I know and is a font of great historical anecdotes. Lucky for me he is especially interested in military history, since I am…well, I AM quite interested in military history but it's never at [...]
July 10, 2011
A work of elevated imagination
When I was visiting my uncle in Hastings-on-Hudson, he took me to a wonderful local bookstore and bought me some books for my birthday. I got two books about the history of English furniture, a cookbook, a book to teach me how to dress like a gentleman, an old pulp paperback mystery, and Sporting Art in Eighteenth Century England: A Social and Political History.
July 7, 2011
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
My friend Sonia has brought something awesome to my attention! Okay, I don't know how many of you read/have read fanfiction, but there's a common trope in the genre called a "high school AU," or "high school alternate universe," where the characters are transposed into high school students (assuming they aren't already).
Example: [...]
Example: [...]
July 4, 2011
The Invention of the Pie Chart
I'm staying with my uncle outside NYC for a few days after the RWA conference. He used to be a printer so he's explaining the mysterious workings of flatbed presses to me and letting me use his pretty impressive library (the heroine of my WIP is the widow of a provincial printer/newspaper publisher). [...]
July 1, 2011
Corinthians vs. Aliens
Overheard at various RWA workshops/speakers/conference functions:
"Brokeback Mountain is tragic. Titanic is merely sad." (I should point out this was NOT a comment on their respective quality! It was about the story structure.)
"The Regency is a shared world fantasy like Star Wars or Star Trek." –Mary Jo Putney. Hell yes! That [...]
"Brokeback Mountain is tragic. Titanic is merely sad." (I should point out this was NOT a comment on their respective quality! It was about the story structure.)
"The Regency is a shared world fantasy like Star Wars or Star Trek." –Mary Jo Putney. Hell yes! That [...]
June 29, 2011
RWAWESOME
At RWA and having a blast! It's so great to see/meet everyone!
I mostly ended up staying by my table during the signing (thank you, people who stopped by, you made my YEAR, and it was so nice to meet those of you I already knew online in the flesh!!) but I did sneak out [...]
I mostly ended up staying by my table during the signing (thank you, people who stopped by, you made my YEAR, and it was so nice to meet those of you I already knew online in the flesh!!) but I did sneak out [...]
