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December 23, 2014

Glimmerglass IRL

Glimmerglass
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt
Mercer University Press, 2014

Various people have asked me about the "real Cooperstown things and people" behind Glimmerglass.  Here are a few:


The gatehouse on the Lake Road near the museums is the model for the house where Cynthia Sorrel lives. It does indeed have charming moldings sprinkled about the ceiling in the
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Published on December 23, 2014 11:48

December 21, 2014

Glimmers

Clive Hicks-Jenkins, artist--his image
on the jacket, and this photo his!

Albany Times-Union review 
21 December 2014

Clip: "Readers of literary fantasy will welcome the novel "Glimmerglass," the 12th book by Cooperstown author Marly Youmans. It layers gothic romance, ghost tales and medieval dream visions into a coming-of-age story set in the village of Cooper Patent."

Marly at Tor

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Published on December 21, 2014 17:34

December 17, 2014

The joy of lists....

Books and Culture Favorite Books of 2014

Thanks to Books and Culture and its wide-ranging reader, John Wilson, editor, for another spot on Books and Culture's annual Favorite Books list. I am grateful that John Wilson ranges so very widely that he discovered and read my books some years ago, and that the magazine continues to support them. It's an interesting list, with Christopher Beha,
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Published on December 17, 2014 04:41

December 16, 2014

Thank you, Renea Winchester--from her Christmas book list

from Blog the Farm:



Marly Youmans grew up in the South and now makes her home “up North.” (but she returns to the mountains every chance she gets). She spent most of this fall in Jackson County, NC with her mother where she launched her latest book, Glimmerglass. Today I write about her previous book, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage. I mention it only because I haven’t a moment to
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Published on December 16, 2014 08:04

December 15, 2014

Glimmerglass reminder and lazy post!

Photo by artist-illustratoro-writerJackie Morris on twitter

NEXT UP

No time to post--one sickie home from school, various events to attend, and I'm trying to stay healthy (-ish) and catch up on promised work. Here's a reminder for central New York region readers:


Glimmerglass reading

Writers Salon

Tuesday, December 16th

7:30 p.m.

CANO / The Wilbur Mansion

11 Ford St.

Oneonta, New York
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Published on December 15, 2014 08:05

December 12, 2014

Snips of tinsel and gold

Follow Marly's board Glimmerglass on Pinterest. 

Life and trala: Here's the hot Facebook post of the morning: "Sometimes it's just great to be a teenage boy. Child no. 3 driving to school by himself for the first time (new license!) and last night pinned his opponent in the wrestling dual with Unatego--third meet, fourth pin. Rah!"

Highly
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Published on December 12, 2014 07:22

December 10, 2014

Next Glimmerglass event--

Writers Salon, December 16th 

Next up: a reading from Glimmerglass with The Community Arts Network of Oneonta. Here's an invitation on facebook from CANO. If you are on Facebook and/or have area friends who are, you and they may read, invite, accept the invitations, leave comments, etc. At any rate, please come!


Tuesday, December 16th

7:30 p.m. 

CANO / The Wilbur Mansion

11 Ford Ave.
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Published on December 10, 2014 05:21

December 8, 2014

Guest post by poet Richard Nester

www.ashleynorwoodcooper.com

Open House

Thanks to everybody who turned out for yesterday's jolly open house / open studio / book signing, a joint event thrown by me and painter AshleyNorwood Cooper. Take a look at her paintings!

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Guest at The Palace at 2:00 a.m.

And here's a post from poet Richard Nester. Richard has twice been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He
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Published on December 08, 2014 07:19

December 5, 2014

Hodgepodge soup

Ashley Norwood Cooper!

next event
2-5 this Sunday at 114 Lake St., Cooperstown
Book signing and open studio with Ashley Norwood Cooper. Books (various of mine plus a little catalogue of the deployment series), monoprints, paintings from this series and the prior cut-away houses series, beaujolais nouveau and wine and goodies till everything runs out!

favorite Glimmerglass review of the week (
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Published on December 05, 2014 05:57

December 3, 2014

Confetti! And an invite...

A piece from the deployment series...
This one always seems to me a link
to her prior series with cutaway houses,
as well as relating to all the screens and
portals in the deployment series...
the figure in the window in the next house,
the reflection in the window...

Had a lovely, well-attended reading-interview-QandA at the Village Library of Cooperstown--any time they have to get out more
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Published on December 03, 2014 18:56