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January 30, 2013
EXCITING NEWS
Well, news anyway, which is something.
First, in case anybody has gone blind and not noticed the Timeline, there is a new contest for Valentine’s Day: if you haven’t signed up for the Forum yet, pretty please do so. With sprinkles and Godiva chocolate on the pretty please.
Okay, now to the rest of the news. I recently saw the movie GONE which stars Amanda Seyfried, a nice thriller with a possibly-schizophrenic-and-totally-cool girl playing detective when her sister is kidnapped. And was I surprised to see who turned up in the middle of the movie! Mary-Lynnette Carter, Ash Redfern’s soulmate, the reason for all his toils to make amends and rescue other soulmated couples previously seen in the Night World series! Who portrayed M. L.? Well, it was Amy Lawhorn Jennifer Carpenter, but only in one particular scene. Her other photographs, where she usually wears her hair frizzy or curled, don’t look like Mary-Lynnette at all. But here in this pic with long straight hair in a braid you can see my very own conception of M’lin (especially if you mentally take off a few years). (Update: Thanks to Lucas who identified Jennifer's name correctly. 
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By the way, while I’m talking about kick@$$ female “detectives” I can’t go without recommending one of my other faves, which is THE FORGOTTEN, with Julianne Moore as a woman who, again may be schizophrenic, but might also be right in the notion that she had a young son who died in an airplane crash, although no one else remembers the kid.
And while I’m at it, I might as well point out that for kicking any part of the anatomy, Milla Jovovich in the first RESIDENT EVIL movie is both elegant and deadly (but only if you’re a zombie-loving-Living-Dead fan coz otherwise your stomach won’t take it). And Milla’s nobody’s mother, either. My favorite scene is where she runs up the wall and kicks the heads off the undead Dobermans.
But to get to the second point, I did, despite my misgivings, go and see the movie version of Le Miz, maybe ten years after seeing the play. Well . . . a lot of people seem to like it, but I think all the playgoers really know the score, which was that it sucked except for Samantha Bark’s Eponine. Samantha did the songs without the play’s (U.K. and U.S.A. version’s) distinctive whine and she stole the show. Also, she has dimples, which were so fetching that I gave them to Strange Fate’s heroine, Sarah, who’s otherwise a pretty plain Jane (brown hair, ordinary features, slight frame).
Now one other thing about Strange Fate before I make the third point for my bringing up Le Miz and Samantha, and that’s that just yesterday I did an interview which included comparing the outline of the new Chapter 1 (featuring Ash Redfern trying to make amends to Lightly Bitten Girl #97) to the actual chapter. Once Sherry Soule has had a chance to put it on her site, I’ll link to it, and eventually post the outline and chapter as a sneak peek at Strange Fate, which I’ve been working madly on while dealing with a fallen ceiling in my new house and warped floorboards—all from the weird rain-and-winds we’ve gotten since Christmas.
Anyway, the final points for Samantha are that 1) She (especially in the movie) reminded me a whole lot of Blaise Harman, the very wicked witch from the Night World series book Spellbinder, who, of course, will appear again in Strange Fate. Blaise may not have her wasp-waist, but she’s a pretty good approximation. And, 2) in this publicity photo you can see what a “goddess dress” is pretty clearly, which was featured in the Vampire Diaries series book Shadow Souls. Elena wears a dress rather similar to this Silver Nightingale’s gala. The point is that the dress is very simple, and that there’s nothing to support anything with except the wearer’s firm young curves (Elena is 18; Samantha 22.)
And that is all I can think of at the moment. :-)
November 11, 2012
THE FINAL WINNER HAS CHECKED IN
UPDATED: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2012
I sent another winner a CONGRATULATIONS message and she has checked in. She will receive the "Good Witch" jewelry set.
(Drumroll) And here are the final winners:
Diana L. of Oakland, CA, USA.
Sime U. of Hollywood, FL, USA
Congratulations to both of them!
(Oh, yes, and a big thank you to the kind readers who have very sweetly told me that they liked the pics of me and Victor. (Of course they were put up by our b...
ONE WINNER HAS CHECKED IN
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 15, 2012
All right! So Sime U. has checked in and says she's "more a Faye than a Cassie." That means she gets the "Bad Witch" jewelry set. Dionne L. B. now has until Saturday to get in touch with me by responding to my CONGRATULATIONS!!! email. If she does not respond by then, I'll draw another winner.
(Drumroll) And here are the two NEW winners:
Dionne L. B. of Shelton, WA, USA.
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NEW WINNERS IN THE LATEST CONTEST
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Sadly, the first two winners of the Good Witch/Bad Witch contest have not replied to their CONGRATULATIONS!!! emails. So now two new winners have been chosen and emailed, and their first names and last initials, cities, and countries will be announced right here, right now. These winners now have three days to get in touch with me by responding to my CONGRATULATIONS!!! email. If they do not respond by then, I'll draw two more winners.
(Drumroll) And...
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Yes, the GOOD WITCH/BAD WITCH contest—the most precious that this site has ever run—is now closed! Two winners have been chosen and emailed, and their first names and last initials, cities, and countries will be announced right here, right now. These winners now have three days to get in touch with me by responding to my CONGRATULATIONS!!! email . . . since I have verified that neither one lives in an area that is currently designated as being in a state of emergency.
(Drumroll) And here...
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Q&A: The Vampire Diaries creator L.J. Smith on writing and losing the series
Before there was Twilight, there was The Vampire Diaries.
L.J. (Lisa Jane) Smith’s first teen vampire romance novel came out more than 20 years ago. She wrote four books for the series by 1992, before calling it quits for nearly a decade to help take care of family business.
When Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight hit the shelves, Smith got a call that The Vampire Diaries books were mysteriously back on the bestseller list. So, she wrote three more books for the series and was set to...
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A REAL-LIFE HEROINE
[image error] I’m writing this in case somehow some of my readers have missed out on the story of Malala Yousufzai, the fourteen-year-old girl who is, in real life, the kind of heroine I would like to write about.
I first saw Malala’s video on CNN.com, the day she was shot. I say an interview in which she was saying simple things about the simple rights that teenagers in the U.S.A. take for granted. She blogged about having those same intrinsic rights.
“I have the right of education. I have the right...
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Half The Sky
Half The Sky is a two-night event on your local PBS channel on Monday October 1 and Tuesday October 2. As it says on its web page, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/ it talks about “turning oppression into opportunity for women.
If you know my books at all, you know that this is a cause dear to my heart. Please watch this. It’s so important that young people (and some older ones, too) understand that there is one group who are bullied and ignored and disenfranchised a...
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Half The Sky is a two-night event on your local PBS channel on Monday October 1 and Tuesday October 2. As it says on its web page, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/ it talks about “turning oppression into opportunity for women.
If you know my books at all, you know that this is a cause dear to my heart. Please watch this. It’s so important that young people (and some older ones, too) understand that there is one group who are bullied and ignored and disenfranchised a...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml...September 8, 2012
L. J. Smith's Facebook Hacked!!
[image error]Lisa's Facebook account has been hacked and apparently the hacker sent message/s using that account. No further information is available but as soon as we have more we'll post it here. Please view Lisa's Tweeter account to view the latest news >>>
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