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Magpie Monday
All that was bright and shiny in my eye last week (with another installment to come on Wednesday, and two art MMs on Tuesday and Thursday, so with Video Friday it’s a full week of mayhem here…) ♦ WELCOME TO … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Scream by R.L. Stine, Aifric Campbell, Alice Munro, Alison McMahan, Awesome Book Covers, book chairs, book cover art, book sculpture, book shelves, bookcases, Bunny Williams, Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes, Call of the Wild, Cathy Day, chameleons, City of Chrysanthemum by Ken Liu, Curing Day by Dustin Adams, Daily Science, Dark Beautiful Force by Jessica May Lin, Drake equation, Fermi paradox, Flaming June, flax-golden tales, Folio Society, foxes, Frederic Leighton, Gladstone's Library, Grant Snider, I'll Leave the Light On by Patricia Russo, Iain M. Banks, Ireland, J. Pocker, Jack London, Jane Yolen, Jumping Into the Sky by Samantha Murray, Kate Bernheimer, Kevin Sharkey, Klaus and Christiane Echle, Lightspeed, Lissa Kiernan, Liu Wei, Mary Burns, Michael Hastings, Neil Gaiman, oneirology, Paranormal Romance by Christopher Barzak, Pawel Piotrowski, Penduline, Portsmouth (UK), Rachelle Gardner, Raymond Carver, Revenge (TV series), Roald Dahl, Sandwich Book, Seagull by Erin Morgenstern, Smart Ideas for Smarter Cities, stamps, Suzanne Strempek Shea, The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra Portugal, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Stranger by Anna Banks, toothpaste, Tor.com, virtual dissection table, William Gladstone
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ All Hallow’s Read. Ah, it’s October again, and time for recommending books for Hallowe’en and All Hallow’s Read. Each Monday this month I’ll recommend something spooky or scary to give … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday
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Tagged "I Used to Sing" by The Indelicates, Adam Mills, Alison McMahan, All Hallow's Read, AlphaBooks, American Gods, animation, Anthony Ryan, author photos, Ava Jae, Awesome People Reading, Axel Medellin Machain, Ben Towle, Bluebeard, book shelves, book trailers, bookcases, Brothers Grimm, Bryan Talbot, BubbleCow, Cadbury's Screme Eggs, Cameron Cook, Cartoon Network (20th anniversary), Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, chapters in novels (writing), characterization (writing), Charles Perrault, Chris Abouzeid, Chris Brogan, Christine A. Jones, Chuck Wendig, colonoscopies (exploding), concept art (animation), content edit, contract law, Corelli's Mandolin, cowboy slang (food & drink), Daily Science Fiction, Dark Tower, Darwyn Cooke, David Malki!, DC's New 52, depression, Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, Devourer of Worlds, discourse markers, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Emma Thompson, Erin Morgenstern, fairy tales, fairy tales (disturbing), Faith Erin Hicks, Fantastic Four, fetal microchimerism, fingerprints, Firefly, Firefly: A Celebration, Firefly: Still Flying, Firefly: The Official Companion, Fitcher's Bird, Fitcher's Brides, flax-golden tales, Friends with Boys, Galactus, Gerry Obadiah Salam, Grandville, Grandville: Bête Noire, graphic novels, Greek myths, Gregory Frost, Hallowe'en, history and epic fantasy, horror films, info graphics (analysis of), infographics, Jabberwocky, James Alan Gardner, Jennifer Schacker, Joel Priddy, Joseph Campbell, Joss Whedon, Journey of the Hero, libraries, Library by Lori Nix (2007), Lindsay Stern, Literary Journals and Rejections, Living Tribunal, Magic & Good Madness: A Neil Gaiman Reread, Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds, Maris Wicks, Mark Siegel, Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Monomyth, monsters (Asian), music videos, mythology and fantasy, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, novel (writing), pain, Parker: The Outfit, Parker: The Score, philosophy, Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester's Time Machine by Julian Mortimer Smith, Promethea, Prudence Shen, research (writing), Rubbish Designer, Russell Hinson, Rusty Shackles, Ryem, Sailor Twain or The Mermaid in the Hudson, Sam Wolk, Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz), Serenity, Shardik, Sherlock Holmes, short films, short stories (success), Solomon Grundy, Spymaster, Steamboat Willy, Stephen King, Super Best Friends Forever, Teaching in the Margins, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Department of Alterations by Gennifer Albin, The Falcon, The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (excerpt) by Catherynne M. Valente, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The Leaf by Erik T. Johnson, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Silver Surfer, The Whisper by Douglas Sterling, The Wraith, third eye, Tim Callahan, Tom Read, Tor.com, Town of Shadows, Troy Jensen, Twitterfic, Vanessa Place, vector portraits, Victoria Hooper, Virginia Woolf, War and Peace, Warren Ellis, webcomics, Weird Fiction Review, Wendigo, Where You End and the World Begins by Sam Ferree, Wonder Woman, Wondermark, worker ants, writing (novels), writing mentors
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ PistolesPress makes some beautiful, beautiful book art. Check out this accordion tunnel book: Naomi Bardoff has more pictures of this book over at the SFCB blog; below she offers this … Continue reading →
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Tagged accordion books, Alison McMahan, Andy Bryan, Awesome People Reading, book advances, book art, book repositories, book trailers, Brewster Khale, Brian Siano, Bruce Weber, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cathal Logue, Charles Vess, Chip MacGregor, Cole Gamble, cupcakes, David Hartwell, David Streitfeld, depression, Dune, Elizabeth Hand, English language, eye-gouging, Flowers, foreign words, Gene Wolfe, Goodnight Dune, Goodnight Moon, graphic novels, Greer Gilman, Gregory Benford, grief bacon, Harry Potter, Homer Simpson, Indiana Jones, Internet Archive, Irene Gallo, James, John Jude Palencar, Jr., Kelly Thompson, Kummerspeck, Kyle Cassidy, L.E. Modesitte, libraries, Lichtenburg figures, lightning trees, Lolly Willowes, loneliness, McSweeney's, mental disorders, Michael Swanwick, minimalist posters, Morrow, Naomi Bardoff, Nathan Fillion, Neil Gaiman, OCD, Patrick Smith, pilkunnussija, PistolesPress, rejection, Sarah Waters, SFCB, Shalom Harlow, shemomedjamo, slushpile, superheroes, Sylvia Townsend Warner, tenure, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, The Book of Ballads, The Daly Show, The Doll's House, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, The Library of Congress, The Palencar Project, Tim Barribeau, Tim Daly, tunnel books, writing "rules"
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