Sara Raasch's Blog, page 501

Every time I look at my cover.

And I may or may not be able to show it to you guys NEXT MONTH.

*squeeeee*

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Huge MONTHLY giveaway all during 2014 to celebrate my YA Novel Debut Year: FORBIDDEN, Harpercollins, November 2014! Go here to enter for January: kimberleygriffith… via http://ift.tt/1hkkpr0 YASeriesInsiders.com

"In conversations about ‘writing about the other’ people always want to know how to depict other..."

“In conversations about ‘writing about the other’ people always want to know how to depict other races without just making them browned version of white characters. Start by looking at power. What is your character’s relationship to institutional power? To the police? The education system? The media? Are they historical beings, connected to a community, or do they just drift in space and time? Our relationships to power don’t define us, but they’re a part of our story and, more often than not, excluded from representations in literature.”

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Another World Waits: Towards an Anti-Oppressive SFF
by Daniel José Older on Dec 3, 2013
Apex Magazine, issue 55

and it’s never a bad time to shout out to Writing the Other, book and workshop!

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How editing your own stuff feels. Seriously though.

LOTR drinking game: every time Legolas’ eyes are brown, do a shot.

LOTR drinking game: every time Legolas’ eyes are brown, do a shot. 

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songoharotto:

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FUCK YES

There’s ‘black comedy’ and then there’s M*A*S*H.

*pulls out M*A*S*H DVDs* *rewatches*

Childhood flashbacks.

*scrambles to find M*A*S*H shows*

Homemade sfiha and tzatziki!Sfiha recipe here. Relatively easy...

Homemade sfiha and tzatziki!

Sfiha recipe here. Relatively easy and SO. FREAKIN’. YUMMY. I used Pillsbury biscuits for the dough, which made it even easier (and gave it a nice sweet flavor), and straight molasses as opposed to pomegranate molasses. I didn’t have aleppo pepper or even cayenne pepper, so I used paprika and chili powder, and I also used ground beef instead of lamb. Even with all these substitutions, it was still incredible!

The tzatziki recipe is my own, and not gonna lie, I make a stupidly good tzatziki. I could eat it as its own dish.

Sara’s Stupidly Good Tzatziki

1 container of Greek yogurt (I used the little single-serve ones)

1-2 tbl honey (depending on how sweet you want it)

1 tsp salt

1 tbl ground/chopped dill 

2 tsp garlic (fresh or powdered)

2 tsp lemon juice 

1/2 of a cucumber, cubed (about 1 cup total)

Combine all. Adjust based on flavor preferences (like it saltier? Add more salt. Like it sweeter? More honey). Stick a spoon in and gobble it up!

"Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality..."

“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?



We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.



They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-Earth.”

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- George R.R. Martin  (via indisposablehero)

This is one of the most beautiful quotes I think I have ever read. I love it, and I will treasure it for my entire life.

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Giveaway of SCINTILLATE by Tracy Clark

Giveaway of SCINTILLATE by Tracy Clark:

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YA Series Insider member, Tracy Clark, has a new book coming out on February 4th, and we’re so excited to offer a giveaway of a final copy! Fill out the Rafflecopter form at the bottom of the post for your chance to win!

Scintillate by Tracy Clark

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

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And it will be a SIGNED copy, too!

SNOW.For obvious reasons.

SNOW.

For obvious reasons.