Ned Hayes's Blog, page 122
February 12, 2014
I romanticized you
to the point where
the knives you
pressed
into my skin
began to look
like
...
I romanticized you
to the point where
the knives you pressed
into my skin
began to look
like Cupid’s arrows.
"In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding...

"In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the rats’ nervous feet in the darkness. Christian has not come home all the night long. I know, for I have lain in this darkness for hours now with my eyes stretched wide, yearning for my son’s return."
February 11, 2014
"NIKKI MCCLURE ON ART:
Mistakes are OK. They’re not something I really set out to make — that’s not..."
NIKKI MCCLURE ON ART:
Mistakes are OK. They’re not something I really set out to make — that’s not really a mistake, is it? But when I make one, it’s not the end of the world. It opens all these possibilities for me, because if I’ve already ruined it, then it can’t get any worse. You’re free to try all these things that you wouldn’t necessarily try if you were going to mess up the most beautiful picture you’ve ever made. You’re not going to take that risk. But once you’ve made that mistake, you’re able to take the risk, and those pictures have actually become my favorite pictures.
”-
Great interview with Sinful Folk illustrator Nikki McClure.
Paper cut artist & author Nikki McClure, on mistakes in her intricate work. Read the rest of Powell’s interview with Nikki here »
"The valley where our village of Duns rests is surrounded by...

"The valley where our village of Duns rests is surrounded by forested hills. The path from our village to the King’s Highway is no road at all; it is a crooked line of mud rutted with cart tracks, a rough trough where the dirty snow is stabbed through by the hooves of feral sheep.
To the east, that faint track leads up through the forest until it reaches, finally, the open country and paths that lead to other places.”
PHOTO: nordvarg: (500px / Rocky Mountain High by Bob Vishneski)
"There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really..."
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (via beanstation)
RIP Shirley Temple Black —
Great bookish picture —...

RIP Shirley Temple Black —
Great bookish picture — Will Rogers reads to Shirley Temple.
February 10, 2014
A wordle of all the words in the new medieval novel
SINFUL...

A wordle of all the words in the new medieval novel
SINFUL FOLK, by Ned Hayes and New York Times bestseller Nikki McClure
“Spring grew into summer, and the rhythm of my life now...

“Spring grew into summer, and the rhythm of my life now included Nell. I learned that her secret thyme and mint beds were deep in the woods, out by the chuckling stream that disappeared underground. She gathered plants she needed every day, and she was as a child who gathers flowers in May.”
February 9, 2014
Life As A Reader
When your favourite author announces a new book.
IT’S SO EXCITING.
When you’re a few chapters away from the end of a great book, and you think about putting the book down and living in the book’s world forever.
Let’s face it, you HAVE to finish it.When a book is released in…