Marly Youmans's Blog, page 125

Tolkienesque confession, with camellias

Middle-earth-style confession in the mode of neurotic comedy

The lovely light-elf parts of having a new book: hearing about people saying marvelous things to others in real life or e-life; receiving fan notes and letters about obtaining more rights; having other people be excited on behalf of the book; being gifted by Lady Word-of-Mouth; feeling a pleasant sense of flurry. The Dark-Lord parts:

NYC opening, solo show: Ashley Norwood Cooper

Ashley Norwood Cooper, "Another Sad Song" (diptych), 2012,
casein, 48 inches by 72 inches













DOWN FROM THE HILLS
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 28, 3 - 5 pm
It's not easy to mount a solo show in New York City when you don't live there. I recommend this artist and show and hope that those of you who live in New York will support her by turning out for the reception. (

White Camellia Roundup

Round-up of news about my new book, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage:
 1. The Goodreads giveaway of 24 books starts today, so please sign up. I haven't seen it on their lists yet, so go ahead and sign up first... button below.
 2. Mercer is nominating the book for several awards--National Book Award and Pulitzer.
 3. There's a new page for the book at facebook: https://www.facebook.com/

Reading at The Green Toad

Reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Thursday, April 12th at 7 p.m.
The Green Toad Bookstore 
198 Main St.

Oneonta, New York

(607) 433-8898
Read chapter one of the book at Scribd

The Lucky Seven

Seymour Jacklin tagged me on his blog, seymourjacklin.co.uk.  I like his self-description on twitter: Freelancing & freewheeling. Tweeting about my passions: writing, editing, non-violence, sustainability, veganism, faith, grammar, Bach, Jazz and creativity.  He also doodles in a big way, and he posts a story every week. Here are the meme rules:


Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript
Go

"Terrible and wondrous all"

I skipped my voice lesson this morning in hopes of preserving my voice for tomorrow night's reading at The Green Toad in Oneonta (7:00 p.m.), though I may try to sing with the choir later... Meanwhile I have scoured the internet, answered mail, read some depressing articles from VIDA that deal with the inequalities between men and women in magazine publishing and elsewhere (there's nothing like

Feet on a tuffet--

Finally, a day to loll about and recover from The Pernicious Bassett Bug! I'm hoping to be in the very pinkest pink of health by my reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage on Thursday the 12th at The Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta. Today I am relaxing and writing my talk called "The Library's Child" for the MALIA, the library conference in Roanoke.

Yesterday I drove to Bard College

With a wave--

As today is already booked until night, I leave you with a chance for one of 24 free books, and the already-posted peek at Scribd:







 


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A thank you at Easter

Lady Word-of-Mouth, look kindly upon me!

"No advertising or promotional campaign can take the place of readers talking to other readers and thrusting a book into their hands and saying, 'Hey, you've got to read this.'"
    --George R. R. Martin

Thanks to 694 readers for reading/downloading chapter one of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage at Scribd since pub date on March 30th.

Happy Easter-to-come from little M.

See there?
Little M. with her hair in a fat braid.
Little M. in footies with her father and a Christmas stocking
   made by a nice librarian at the Louisiana State Library.
Little M. with a book bag! She loves Mrs. Stringfellow.
Little M. in her little desk.
Little M. likes to read!
There she is in Louisiana, land of magic, but she still wants a book.

Chapter one of A Death at the White