Tate Hallaway's Blog, page 22

Your Wednesday MangaKast

If you want to hear what my son and I sound like first thing in the morning, here we are again bringing you the latest, breaking news in Bleach and Toriko:  http://mangakast.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/a-cookie-for-kenpachi-or-our-third-podcast/

An Experiment

I've decided to just jump into this kind of crazy, new world of self-publishing/social media, and so I'm writing the sequel to PRECINCT 13 in serial fashion on a site called WattPad, which allows for quite a bit of interaction between the reader and the writer--kind of like an original fiction version of archive of our own.



So, if you'd like to read the sequel AS I WRITE IT, check out the first installment here: http://www.wattpad.com/43223189-unjust-cause-part-1?d=ud



PLEASE let me know what you think of it!  I'll let you know here when new stuff goes up there, but the plan is to try to post once a week.

More Nerdiness from Mason and Me...

If you want to listen in, Mason and I recorded our second MangaKast.  Just like last time, the podcast is actually playable on the WordPress site--you just have to press the little, almost invisible forward arrow icon there at the top of the page.



The podcast is a bit... well, I ultimately left a lot of it unedited, because we just sort of ramble around subjects and I found it kind of adorkable.  Of course, if you're not following Bleach or Toriko, it will probably make a whole lot of NO SENSE.  I'd suggest catching up on Bleach, but there's, well, 573 chapters and counting...



Meanwhile, if you want to read something by me that's just kind of fluffy fun, I wrote some fan fic for  an Anime called Free! (aka "the gay swimming anime") which I'm considering turning into a regular story.  The original fic is called "The Merman Who Hated the Sea" and it's here:  https://archiveofourown.org/works/1328380

New (Goofy, Fannish) Podcast...

My son and I are huge manga nerds.  Every Wednesday is like a holiday at our house.  We get up early and rush to the iPads and read the latest iterations of Bleach [for both of us] and Toriko [for him.]  I also just read a lot of manga.  I'm pretty sure I've talked here about my love of Bakuman and others.



At any rate, we've started a very on-the-fly, first-thing-in-the-morning, first reactions kind of podcast, where we get up, read the manga, and... well, basically freak out for a while and then talk about it.



If you want to listen to my unbridled enthusiasm (and my adorable 10 year old son), you can check it out here:



http://mangakast.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/first-ever-mangakast/

Wyrdsmith and a Con Report...

First, go check out the wonderful interview with my fellow Wyrdsmiths, Adam Stemple, over at our blog:  http://wyrdsmiths.blogspot.com/2014/03/q-adam-stemple.html



Also, I wrote up my Saturday and Sunday con report for MarsCON over on my LJ--



Saturday: http://lyda222.livejournal.com/330315.html



Sunday:  http://lyda222.livejournal.com/330924.html



In a nutshell, good times were had by all otaku, I asked Dr. Demento for directions to registration, and postalized for Moon-Moon and the Free! anime.

Awesome Review of My Short Story "God Box"

The Little Red Reviewer blog reviewed King David the Spiders from Mars and picked out my short story "God Box" to say nice things about.  Among other things, she says:

There is some intense characterization and worldbuiling happening in this short story, it’s as if Kayla walked out of a novel or a space opera series to let us in on one small event that would shape the rest of her life. Biblical Terror? shit just got real.

The full review is here: http://littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/king-david-and-the-spiders-from-mars/



Yay!

MarsCON Schedule

The preliminary schedule is up on the MarsCON page, and from what I can tell I'll be on two panels.  One on Saturday at 11 am and the other on Sunday at 3 pm.












GETTING INTO THE MIND OF A RELIGIOUS FANATIC

Exec Lounge (Krushenko’s)—Saturday, 11:00 am

Uber villain or bit player, what are they like? Are there any useful generalizations? Are they likely to be suicidal and does that depend on the religion or the person? ow can they make for interesting novels and stories without being stereotyped and one dimensional?

With: Naomi Kritzer, mod.; P M F Johnson, Lyda Morehouse, G. David Nordley, David E. Romm, Ozgur K. Sahin







DULL, REALISTIC CHARACTERS

Atrium 2 (Re(a)d Mars) — Sunday 03:00 pm

The people who really explore space and fight modern wars have a lot of self control. They don’t slam fists into spacecraft controls like Hulk Hogan. Do you have to forget about them in fiction, or can you make them interesting? And if your protagonist is like that do you just have to accept that critics will complain and press on in hopes of finding an audience that appreciates a little verisimilitude?

With: Bridget Landry, G. David Nordley, mod.; Patrick W. Marsh, Lyda Morehouse, Kathryn Sullivan







General MarsCON information is as follows:




MarsCon 2014

Time Is The Key 
March 7-9, 2014

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington-Minneapolis South
7800 Normandale Boulevard
Bloomington, MN 55439

Send questions about MarsCon to info14e@marscon.org, we’ll do our best to send answers!

There’s more about MarsCon on Facebook and Twitter.

Zombies and Unicorns, Oh My!

The Loft has asked me back to teach as part of their Summer Youth Program, so I'm reprising my successful (17 17-year-olds!) "More than the Zombie Apocalypse" SF/F class.



If you know someone who might be eligible, more details can be found here: https://www.loft.org/classes/detail/?loft_product_id=62116

A quickie interview with me (and my alter ego)

Over on the Wyrdsmith's page, you can catch up with what I've been doing with myself: http://wyrdsmiths.blogspot.com/2014/02/q-lyda-morehouse-and-tate-too.html

Garnet Lacey Fan Fic

If you're a fan of the Garnet Lacey series, let me point you over to AO3, where there is a new bit of fan fic available that features Sebastian and Matyas.  It's short, it's sweet (and a bit sexy): http://archiveofourown.org/works/1159841