I have a friend coming in to stay this weekend, and a bun...
I have a friend coming in to stay this weekend, and a bunch of stuff to get through today, so here's some links for the weekend:
This is a subject I find particularly frustrating, and it's driven me out of a few online communities over the years: L.A. Noir: Crap is Not the Same as Stuff You Don't Like
Like pizza? Broccoli? Pegging your boyfriend? Okay. Whatever works for ya. It's all subjective. Your taste is yours and ain't nobody can tell you you're wrong.
Not that people won't try.
Malinda Lo: What I learned on the Diversity Tour
Last month I traveled across the country with Cindy Pon for our Diversity Tour, which made stops in San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Boston, and New York. In each city we had panel discussions (along with several other local authors) at bookstores or libraries about diversity. I've been thinking back over the tour because I wanted to note down some of the things I learned from these discussions. It's not that often that I get to talk about these things in person, repeatedly. In fact, it hardly ever happens, so this was a pretty neat opportunity. Here are a few things I gleaned from the tour:
Black Gate: Goth Chick (International) News: Iranian Ghost Stories For Real
Publishers Weekly: Are Teen Novels Dark and Depraved — or Saving Lives?
Cox Gurdon's story failed to recognize "the good part of what literature does for everybody," said Jacob Lewis, co-founder and CEO of the teen literary site Figment. "Movies and books and TV all deal with millions of subjects that are sometimes uncomfortable to deal with. It's the way we deal with and introduce subjects into the consciousness.... We can use those resources in art and literature as ways of understanding them."
Sherman Alexie: Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood Alexie talks about the terrible abuse he suffered as a teenager, and how books were a lifeline for him.
Jeff VanderMeer: If You Were Here: The Top 30 All Time Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds
As some of you may know, I'm writing a nonfiction book for Victoria Blake's Underland Press entitled If You Lived Here: The Top 30 All Time Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds. That book now has a recommendation site where you can submit your own favorites, with your explanation, and perhaps even be quoted in the book. Victoria will also be contacting booksellers for their thoughts.
Cool Vibe art: Jungle Palace
This is a subject I find particularly frustrating, and it's driven me out of a few online communities over the years: L.A. Noir: Crap is Not the Same as Stuff You Don't Like
Like pizza? Broccoli? Pegging your boyfriend? Okay. Whatever works for ya. It's all subjective. Your taste is yours and ain't nobody can tell you you're wrong.
Not that people won't try.
Malinda Lo: What I learned on the Diversity Tour
Last month I traveled across the country with Cindy Pon for our Diversity Tour, which made stops in San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Boston, and New York. In each city we had panel discussions (along with several other local authors) at bookstores or libraries about diversity. I've been thinking back over the tour because I wanted to note down some of the things I learned from these discussions. It's not that often that I get to talk about these things in person, repeatedly. In fact, it hardly ever happens, so this was a pretty neat opportunity. Here are a few things I gleaned from the tour:
Black Gate: Goth Chick (International) News: Iranian Ghost Stories For Real
Publishers Weekly: Are Teen Novels Dark and Depraved — or Saving Lives?
Cox Gurdon's story failed to recognize "the good part of what literature does for everybody," said Jacob Lewis, co-founder and CEO of the teen literary site Figment. "Movies and books and TV all deal with millions of subjects that are sometimes uncomfortable to deal with. It's the way we deal with and introduce subjects into the consciousness.... We can use those resources in art and literature as ways of understanding them."
Sherman Alexie: Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood Alexie talks about the terrible abuse he suffered as a teenager, and how books were a lifeline for him.
Jeff VanderMeer: If You Were Here: The Top 30 All Time Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds
As some of you may know, I'm writing a nonfiction book for Victoria Blake's Underland Press entitled If You Lived Here: The Top 30 All Time Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds. That book now has a recommendation site where you can submit your own favorites, with your explanation, and perhaps even be quoted in the book. Victoria will also be contacting booksellers for their thoughts.
Cool Vibe art: Jungle Palace
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