Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 18

Vivisectionalsofa!

YAY

TOMORROW there will be a game. A GAME! An actual game with one picked winner who wins via righteousness and TWO random winners, who win by existing and being lucky.

All will win copies of WEDDING CAKE FOR BREAKFAST. It is an anthology. I am in it. Inside, I may or may not be waxing romantical about how I snagged the most excellent Mr. Husband in my husband trap and made him be my very own FOREVERRRRRRRRRR.

I am trying to figure out the RULES OF THE GAME, so it will be tomorrow. I love gam...

Fic-Facts not of My Making

WARNING: Contains Earnesty.

WARNING 2: If you have no idea what a Fic Fact is, then nothing here will make a speck of sense if you do not first click to go HERE.

So obviously I believe writing has an ongoing relationship with other arts, and for me this is most often the case with the visual arts. Hey, look who said it first without me even knowing! Why, Flannery O’Connor.

While writing A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY, I discovered that I had an easier time swapping between the voices if I used...

My Beautiful Mid-Life Crisis

I have decided to live to be exactly 88, at which point I will drop dead onto the tarmac. I plan to have wispy tufts of lavender hair not actually covering much of my shiny smooth cap of scalp. I will be sporting a generous dollop of crooked-y pink lipstick, some on my lips and some smeared across my teeth, because, even at 88, I am not going gently into that good night.

I will be wearing an aggressively lime green pants suit. (Yes, leisure suits will have come back by then. Based on the 80’s...

Random/Genetics

The RNG has spoken! Yay for Ashley, the triangular orange six footed monster of comment 19, who has won GRACE AND GRIT.

Poor Maisy Jane had a stomach virus. She was up all night puking in a 49 – 52 minute schedule. Which meant we had just enough time to watch a Doctor Who episode, and then we would get up to go to the bathroom and

be violently ill for ten minutes during or just after the closing credits. What a polite virus, to abate long enough let us see the fate of Amy Pond before rearing...

The RNG has spoken! Yay for Ashley, the triangular orang...

The RNG has spoken! Yay for Ashley, the triangular orange six footed monster of comment 19, who has won GRACE AND GRIT.

Poor Maisy Jane had a stomach virus. She was up all night puking in a 49 – 52 minute schedule. Which meant we had just enough time to watch a Doctor Who episode, and then we would get up to go to the bathroom and

be violently ill for ten minutes during or just after the closing credits. What a polite virus, to abate long enough let us see the fate of Amy Pond before rearing...

3Q With Lanier Scott Isom – And a CONTEST!

SO I am in Alabama all week and I meet a girl at a book signing named Crimsynn. And of course the first thing out of my mouth—because I am in Alabama—- is, “So, are you named after Bama’s Crimson Tide?” And —because we are in Alabama—-her answer is, “Of course!”

Man, I love that state.

It’s the exact kind of thing I can never put in a book, a character named after The Tide, because people NOT from Alabama would feel I was exaggerating. But no, I am willing to bet Crimsynn has MANY Crimson-nam...

Crazy Farm Plan Grows Teeth — Part Two

So, the reason I had a Crazy Farm Plan was lost in the craziness of Crazy Farm Plan. Every time I whined for CFP, I was actually sending myself a message that I did not receive because I am about as self aware as a Little Devil Potted Meat Food Product.

Also, because I was distracted by pastoral fantasies involving goats frolicking amongst the chickens and growing my own mad vines of lush zucchini that might well TAKE OVER THE WORLD with relentless squashy manifest destiny. Zuchini are like...

The Socks Are Only Pink Very Briefly. More CFP Monday!

And here I Interrupt Crazy Farm Plan’s Teeth to Tell You Three Things!

1) Look at this DARLING Flash animation for SHINE SHINE SHINE. Did I tell you I read the audio of this book? Because I did. I FREAKING LOVE THIS BOOK WITH AN UNHOLY LOVE. I think I have read it about 26 times now. I have literally read my ARC into a TATTER, and not Rob Lowe-style “literally,” either. Real literally. It is a rag.

It comes out in July. You can win a free copy of the ARC here, in case the link in the flash fai...

Crazy Farm Plan Grows Teeth — Part One

I am a cyclical creature, but living inside the cycle, subject to its awful whims, it doesn't SEEM like a cycle. It seems like what is real and true. It is partially because I ma not SEASONAL, so I can't just say, OH It is WINTER, I get blue in winter. For me, the cycle is built around the books.

Here is how writing a book goes:

1) Have a big idea. Prance around. Be enchanted with myself. Kiss my dogs on the lips. Kiss strange dogs on the lips. Be sassy. Purchase shoes.

2) Write a bunch of...

We Went Medieval on that Birthday’s Butt

I met my husband doing a summer of George Kaufman plays with the Playwright’s Repertory Theatre in Florida. It was the first time I got paid actual money to act. This Summer Rep even had a few equity actors passing through; The Rep gave out of towners a place to live and paid enough money to keep us in Top Ramen and beer, provided we were willing to drink domestic.

Actors always are.

This little summer rep did 3 plays by one writer and debuted a new play every season. They taught Scott how to...