Marly Youmans's Blog, page 60

July 23, 2014

Blog hop, bog hlop for Richelle Hawkes

Now in pre-orderAvailable via Mercer, online shops,and your favorite indie bookstore

Richelle Hawks of Shipwreck Dandy asked me to participate in her blog hop, and so here goes--



What am I working on?





Right now I have finished up a week at the Antioch Writing
Workshops in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where I ran a poetry workshop and also met
one-on-one with various people to discuss both
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Published on July 23, 2014 07:40

July 22, 2014

Robbi Nester at LWOM

Robbi Nester is up at Lady Word of Mouth with A Likely Story, a collection of poems. Cover art by Mary Bullington.
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Published on July 22, 2014 08:23

July 21, 2014

Digby frolics

Last year with Paul and Lynn Digby
(Lynn is the photographer here)
in Cullowhee, North Carolina

Stayed up till 3:00 a.m. in Alliance, Ohio, talking to the man who made these:

In Extremis
The Birthday Roses
   from The Book of the Red King (yet to come!)
The Exile's Track
The Nesting Doll
A Fire in Ice

Most of those are from The Throne of Psyche.  Music and videography by the inimitable Paul
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Published on July 21, 2014 05:51

July 19, 2014

Word frolics / Glimmerglass

Word frolics at Yellow Springs 

Surfacing in Yellow Springs (iron, not sulphur) at week's end . . . I've had a splendid time at the Antioch Writing Workshops, where I taught the afternoon poetry workshop and also had 1-on-1 sessions with both poets and fiction writers. It was lovely to talk to other writers at all stages on the unending path. I'll go home . . . some time soon, with a brief
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Published on July 19, 2014 05:24

July 10, 2014

Travels + Glimmerglass

Chapter decoration for Glimmerglass.
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

Posts may be a bit slim for a while, so please ramble around on the site, or click on the tabs above to go to book pages. Bookwise, next up is Glimmerglass on September 1st, now in pre-order. Click on the image below for a closer look. See prior posts for more commentary.

Glimmerglass is a series of mirrors and panes that
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Published on July 10, 2014 04:01

July 8, 2014

Glimmerglass pre-orders--

Click for a large, readable copy.
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Design by Mary-Frances Burt.
Author photo by Rebecca Beatrice Miller.
Blurbs by poet Jeffery Beam, novelist Margo Lanagan, and editor John Wilson.

Glimmerglass is now available for pre-orders at Mercer Amazon, your local indie, and most everywhere!




Sample of interior art
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Published on July 08, 2014 03:34

July 7, 2014

Glimmerglass at "Publishers Weekly"

Title page with decoration
(collage of painted and cut papers)
by Clive Hicks-Jenkins


Glimmerglass

Marly Youmans. Mercer Univ., $24 (224p) 

ISBN 978-0-88n146-491-7

     This stylish contemporary variation on the Bluebeard legend from Youmans (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage) serves up an appealing blend of myth, mystery, and magic. [SOME SPOILERS AHEAD - SKIP TO END IF YOU DON'T
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Published on July 07, 2014 05:13

July 3, 2014

Peculiar things people sometimes say to a writer--

Preparatory art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins 
for Glimmerglass

That is, to this writer--

"I never read anything written after 1900." (Later on the same neighborhood man read one my novels and declared that he loved it, so maybe he was exaggerating.)

"I never read novels. Can't do it." (Another guy in my neighborhood. Twice. With accompanying head shakes. I'm still wondering if he forgets to what I
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Published on July 03, 2014 04:30

June 28, 2014

The glittering fall

The Ferrol Sams AwardSilver, ForeWord Book of the Year in fictionBooks and Culture Favorite Books of 2012

     Alden kept whispering in the dark, but Pip was emptied out and unable to speak. The jag of glee had depleted him, and he felt as if he had been gulping at some fine mist of drowsiness. Perhaps it was the Sandman's crystals, flung by the handful into the air. For a long time he lay
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Published on June 28, 2014 05:09

June 27, 2014

Update

to the Glimmerglass page! Please go here.
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Published on June 27, 2014 14:52