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August 21, 2015
When Words Collide/August Reading Challenge
So I had a blast in Calgary this last weekend – I know, it’s Friday and the convention was technically over on Sunday – I came back Monday and went to work Tuesday, and it’s looking like another crazy work week.
Let’s start with that reading challenge:
Book with a 1 Word Title: Awakening by Shannon Duffy
A Book Based on a True Story: The Slaughter by Ethan Guttman
Book of Short Stories: Canadian Noir Edited by Claude Lalumiere
A Book you can finish in a Day: Lake in the Clouds by Edward Will...
July 12, 2015
Sad Puppies – A Challenge
So I started writing about women in science-fiction and fantasy several times in the past month and a half, and it always descended into a rant. Alongside me working an awful lot since let’s say, May Long (which I worked!), let’s just say that my thoughts needs to be refined. So first, my reading challenge, then on to the Sad Puppies thing I’ve been quiet about.
A Book with more than 500 Pages – The Crippled God by Steven Erikson
A Classic Romance: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Graphic Nove...
May 21, 2015
One on One Pitch Sessions (Meet the Editor in Person – Now why would I want to do that??)
Disclaimer: Inspired by a meeting, but in no way reflects how the meeting went.
First off, let’s get specific – this is for a meeting with someone working as an editor, not another reader giving feedback. I’m gearing this towards one-on-one feedback, though I have heard of meetings where it’s possible to have a panel give feedback, (I’ve been to all of one). These are different then writer’s groups where everyone is throwing in their two cents – which can be helpful, though I find the convers...
2015 Reading Challenge
Yeah yeah, update it more often. This is going to get a lot harder.
Book Recommended by a Friend: The Kill Order by James Daschner
A Book with a One Word Title – Enslavement by Melinda Friesen
A Book Turned into or Based on a TV Show – The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill
A Book You Own but Never Read – Skirmish by Michelle Sagara West
A Book Set in a different Country – Silent Symmetry by JB Dutton
Okay – disclaimer on Skirmish – I’ve had the book for about two years, and I think I kept pick...
May 19, 2015
KeyCon Round Up and Editorial FUN (In my mind)
I should really get on with updating that 2015 reading challenge, but my mouse I think I left at my parent’s house last week so doing anything in photoshop like, making simple red X’s through things will look even more bad than usual, and I have to go back to The Peg tomorrow for training, so hopefully I won’t get too bogged down shortly and update the list.
Been busy – May 2 was International Authors for Indies, which I was not a part of, finding out about it about a week before it happened...
March 31, 2015
Clean Reader: Hold onto your Panties (or bloomers)
So someone on my facebook posted a link to an outraged author, who doesn’t want to be censored. In a nutshell, fragile folks who get upset with cuss words like books, but could do without them. Kind of like when my dad squints at Netflix and turns stuff off because it’s basically deviating into a soft-core porno (which my mom would probably enjoy…) Hence, the birth of the App Clean Reader – where we change words like ‘bitch’ to ‘witch’ and so on and so forth. Apparently, this act of not being...
March 19, 2015
What I’ve been Reading Lately
If you’re ever wondering why I read one book over another, I tend to read whatever people give me, even though I get all hipster and begrudgingly read what’s popular unless it’s by a local author, but I will eventually give in. I put stuff down to read something more pressing, and I come back to it, but I think it makes me look like I’m binging on a genre for a while, but if someone gives me a book I like to return it to them in a timely manner. So enjoy while I cross-out the easy ones on thi...
March 18, 2015
My Solution to Writing Burnout (Cartoons!)
Manitoba March can be tricky – sure, it’s nice now – the snow is almost melted – I’ll post the ‘got ya!’ blizzard that’s due some time around spring break. So I’ve been enjoying walking along Crescent Lake in PlaP and generally being outside with the dog, who is now 100% cone free.
Anyway – I know I was complaining about being burnt out before – let’s just say that I’ve been doing a lot of sketching lately, and that it seems to take the edge off writing. I actually want to work, and I finishe...
February 24, 2015
Eating Crow / And Who an Author Is and Isn’t
So I actually figured this out the day following my last post, but I have been kind of busy with work/RL to post. This is in regards to what I mentioned about King Aelle, so please, skip this paragraph if you don’t want spoilers. Ragnar Lothbrok, in accordance with the Poetic Edda, dies by Snake Pit. Aelle throws him in. Well played, tv show. I still think it was over the top and now I’m curious how one maintains it, but eeeeh.
In my defence, when I did research and wrote the rough draft for T...
February 11, 2015
Reading Challenge Update / Character Assassination in Fiction (And not the cool kind with dark clothing, sorry)
First, Reading List Update:
Book with Non-Human Characters: Bone, Ash, Fog and Star by Catherine Egan
A Book that Came Out this Year: The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Infinity Coil by Marty Chan
A Book with Bad Reviews: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Claire
A Book that Became a Movie: The Maze Runner by James
Technically any book out there should have some bad reviews. Taste, really – and I was aware of Cassandra Clare’s work previously, and for the most part, I’m counting it as Bad Reviews because I ha...
