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Hollins & Shared Worlds & more

August has come around, and I am at last home again for more than a few days--though I still have a second college run to do. I have been slipping around the East Coast all summer and will be glad to sit still when that's done.During July I had a splendid time being Writer-in-Residence for the Hollins MFA program in children's literature--critiqued more than thirty manuscripts for one-on-one

Marly writes a hymn & more bookishness

Thanks to inverarity for a thoughtful consideration of The Curse of the Raven Mocker and Ingledove at http://community.livejournal.com/bookish. Use the calendar or scroll down; the date of the piece is July 10, 2010.* * *Since I'm off being writer-in-residence for the M.A./M.F.A. in children's literature at Hollins University, I missed something this morning--hearing the bicentennial hymn that Fr

Books, Graduation, and More

BOOKLIFENOWThat woman is blathering about writing again:http://www.booklifenow.com/2010/06/wh... other day I had lunch with Jeremy Jones, who runs the Booklife website and "Shared Worlds" at Wofford. What fun!HAPPY GRADUATIONFUNNY HATS: Rebecca with her friend and classmate Kim, daughter of novelist Peg Leon (who has a new book!)I have survived graduation, despite

Marly on hiatus

In the way of an apology: I am drowning and not waving, having come back from NYC ("Beastly Bride" reading, visits with writers and editors, lovely mini-Yaddo reunion with Maggie Paley and Stacey Engels) and then leaped in the busy-ness of prom weekend. Graduation is coming closer with great swiftness, and much must be done between now and weekend after next: college paperwork and so on (yes,

"The Beastly Bride" NYC Reading

Reading from "The Beastly Bride," an anthology from the mythic fiction series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri WindlingJune 7 Monday7-8 p.m.McNally Jackson Bookstore52 Prince St.(between Lafayette & Mulberry)New York, NY 10012Readers: Jeffrey Ford, Carol Emshwiller, Rick Bowes, Nan Fry, Gregory Frost, Steve Berman, Rick Bowes, and meHost: editor Ellen Datlow.She edited SCIFICTION and Omni and has

"The Beastly Bride" interview

Charles Tan is interviewing every writer with a story in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's The Beastly Bride anthology. Some are already up at sfsignal.com, and today is mine: here. ***Comments are off because there's a place for comments below the article.***If you want more, slide down to the next post and then over to the new Clarkesworld interview.

Interview at "Clarkesworld"

Image: I picked this image from the Clarkesworld covers because it's a sort of foliate head, and I have a mania for foliate heads and even a book coming out called The Foliate Head. The artist is Adam Chowles of the U.K.If you pop over to the current issue of Clarkesworld, you can find a rather long interview with me. The interviewer is Jeremy L. C. Jones, who I will be meeting when I mosey down

Booklife / Shared Worlds

Little mini-essays written for "Shared Worlds" are starting to pop up on the Booklifenow site. I pass something in, and Jeremy Jones writes a nifty little introduction and slaps a title on it. Other writers respond to the questions, producing varied results. New topics include questions on good and bad advice and writing about the Other. And Jeremy has also done an interesting interview with

New books by friends, 3: Alice Lichtenstein's "Lost"

Alice Lichtenstein and Peg Leon and I are Oneonta-and-Cooperstown area writers who are fond of eating lunch. Together. So this is not by any means a review. Instead, it is a celebration of Alice's new novel. (Soon I'll do the same for Peg's new novel. Party confetti is floating about the lake and village these days.) 5 Notable Things about Lost1. There's a lot about the work people do in Lost:

Alice Lichtenstein's "Lost"

Alice Lichtenstein and Peg Leon and I are Oneonta-and-Cooperstown area writers who are fond of eating lunch. Together. So this is not by any means a review. Instead, it is a celebration of Alice's new novel. (Soon I'll do the same for Peg's new novel. Party confetti is floating about the lake and village these days.) 5 Notable Things about LostThere's a lot about the work people do in Lost: what