Shelley Workinger's Blog, page 37
May 2, 2014
FOODFIC Look at The Here and Now
April 23rd just came and went. Now, for me that didn’t mean a whole lot – soccer practice for one kid, baseball for the other, baked haddock for dinner in-between.
For Prenna James, however, April 23rd is a very special anniversary. It marks the date she and her Postremo community traveled back from the year 2098 to 2010 in an effort to fix whatever it is that goes wrong in the time between that unleashes plagues unto the future.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/05/...
For Prenna James, however, April 23rd is a very special anniversary. It marks the date she and her Postremo community traveled back from the year 2098 to 2010 in an effort to fix whatever it is that goes wrong in the time between that unleashes plagues unto the future.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/05/...
April 24, 2014
Girl Talk!
Girl Talk with Gilda Evans today - breathing life into SOLID heroine Clio Kaid.
When I began writing the SOLID series, I was sure of four things:
1. The heroine’s life would not revolve around a boy. (There is a love interest, but Clio can function without him.)
2. She would eat. Real food. Without obsessing over it.
3. She *gasp* had to have a great relationship with her mother. (Specifically, a mutual respect.)
4. She would be a complete mess.
More:
http://www.gildaevans.com/real-heroin...
When I began writing the SOLID series, I was sure of four things:
1. The heroine’s life would not revolve around a boy. (There is a love interest, but Clio can function without him.)
2. She would eat. Real food. Without obsessing over it.
3. She *gasp* had to have a great relationship with her mother. (Specifically, a mutual respect.)
4. She would be a complete mess.
More:
http://www.gildaevans.com/real-heroin...
April 18, 2014
FOODFIC Look at The Night Circus
I love carnival food. Who doesn’t? My favorite is the fries; they have that inexplicable something* that is somehow conjured up by every unique traveling show, yet can be found nowhere else on Earth.
Maybe it’s magic.
Now don’t tell me you don’t believe; real magic is in fact the heart (if not the stomach) of this story. Magic that hides in plain sight by masquerading as trickery.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
Maybe it’s magic.
Now don’t tell me you don’t believe; real magic is in fact the heart (if not the stomach) of this story. Magic that hides in plain sight by masquerading as trickery.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
April 11, 2014
Please Welcome Author Ksenia Anske, Author of Siren Suicides
Darling Shelley invited me to guest post on her blog about food. Food my characters eat. Curiously, in my first trilogy, SIREN SUICIDES, there is hardly any talk of food except human souls, which is what sirens sing out of people, for, well, nourishment. But in my second novel ROSEHEAD a 12 year old American girl, Lilith Bloom, and her talking whippet Panther, travel from Boston to Berlin for a family reunion, and there they pig out on hearty German food, which is partially inspired by my own memories of traveling from Moscow to Berlin (I was 11) and marveling at the abundance of food unlike what I have ever seen in my life, considering the fact that while I devoured fat German sausages, most Russians had to get food by coupons.
Upon arriving for the first time for breakfast, Lilith approached it uncertainly...
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
Upon arriving for the first time for breakfast, Lilith approached it uncertainly...
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
April 4, 2014
FOODFIC Look at Jinx
The only problem with this book was me. Most specifically, my current stage of life, which revolves around small children.
I’m NOT saying this book isn’t for parents of small children, nor other adults, nor children. In fact, it has something for all of those people – wizards and witches, werewolves and trolls, new worlds and even new words (for me, at least!). *
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
I’m NOT saying this book isn’t for parents of small children, nor other adults, nor children. In fact, it has something for all of those people – wizards and witches, werewolves and trolls, new worlds and even new words (for me, at least!). *
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
March 28, 2014
Please Welcome Christa Polkinhorn, Author of the Family Portrait Trilogy
One of the readers of my novels pointed out jokingly that my characters love food and wine and drink copious amounts of coffee. She is right! I enjoy reading food descriptions in novels and many of my characters like to eat and drink.
Food, the preparation and enjoyment of it, can be a powerful device in a novel. Eating is a very sensual thing and in our writing, we try to convey sensual experiences with words. We want our readers to be involved with the story and one way to do this is to let them perceive the world through the senses of the characters. Let them smell, hear, see, and taste. It brings the story to life and makes for much more interesting reading.
In addition, the way we eat, what we eat, like any other activity, can say something about the rest of our lives and hence, in a novel, about the lives of the characters we create. Here are a few examples of my novels where food plays a role in the Family Portrait trilogy.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
Food, the preparation and enjoyment of it, can be a powerful device in a novel. Eating is a very sensual thing and in our writing, we try to convey sensual experiences with words. We want our readers to be involved with the story and one way to do this is to let them perceive the world through the senses of the characters. Let them smell, hear, see, and taste. It brings the story to life and makes for much more interesting reading.
In addition, the way we eat, what we eat, like any other activity, can say something about the rest of our lives and hence, in a novel, about the lives of the characters we create. Here are a few examples of my novels where food plays a role in the Family Portrait trilogy.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
March 21, 2014
FOODFIC Look at Divergent
Beatrice is a girl after my own heart.
She leaves not only her family but her entire faction of society behind just because of the food.
Okay, that’s not the whole story, but she does sarcastically say it after eating a hamburger (or circular pieces of meat wedged between round bread slices, as she describes it) for the very first time. Although her new peers are shocked by her life inexperience, Tris (as she now calls herself) is not embarrassed to explain that in her old lifestyle – Abnegation* – they believe such extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
She leaves not only her family but her entire faction of society behind just because of the food.
Okay, that’s not the whole story, but she does sarcastically say it after eating a hamburger (or circular pieces of meat wedged between round bread slices, as she describes it) for the very first time. Although her new peers are shocked by her life inexperience, Tris (as she now calls herself) is not embarrassed to explain that in her old lifestyle – Abnegation* – they believe such extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary.
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
March 14, 2014
Please Welcome Luke Murphy, Author of Dead Man's Hand
This week at BWATE, Luke Murphy tells us how he uses both his NFL experience and FOOD to bring life to the characters of Dead Man's Hand:
To put it lightly, Charlene Taylor is a self-hating, alcoholic, one-night standing, tough but broken individual who never knew her father. She was the “boy” her father never had, and has decided to follow in his footsteps as a member of the LAPD.
So in order to demonstrate the kind of character Charlene is, I needed to really sell it with...
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
To put it lightly, Charlene Taylor is a self-hating, alcoholic, one-night standing, tough but broken individual who never knew her father. She was the “boy” her father never had, and has decided to follow in his footsteps as a member of the LAPD.
So in order to demonstrate the kind of character Charlene is, I needed to really sell it with...
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/03/...
March 7, 2014
Happy Blogiversary to But What Are They Eating
Celebrating another year of FoodFic Blogging!
See what I dug into this year and which fabulous authors dropped by to share their food for thought. ;)
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/02/...
See what I dug into this year and which fabulous authors dropped by to share their food for thought. ;)
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/02/...
February 28, 2014
Please Welcome Katherine Roberts, Author of Song Quest
Would you eat a Half Creature?
If you’re not a strict vegetarian, then you’re probably fine with eating animal flesh and maybe a bit of fish. But how far would you take that? Would you eat a horse? Would you eat your dog? Would you eat a mermaid?
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/02/...
If you’re not a strict vegetarian, then you’re probably fine with eating animal flesh and maybe a bit of fish. But how far would you take that? Would you eat a horse? Would you eat your dog? Would you eat a mermaid?
More:
http://bookfare.blogspot.com/2014/02/...
