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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Look at the vibrancy of colors in this photograph by Ross J. Brown of Rosedale, North Yorkshire, England. Check out his Flickr for more stunning images. Via.
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Tagged Abigail Brand, Albert Einstein, AlphaBooks, Alzheimer's Disease, American Horror Story, Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, anamorphic illusions, Andrés Denkberg, Andy Wachowski, Ang Lee, antagonists, Archie comics, autism, Baba Yaga, Ben Towle, Bill Pressman, Bill Walko, Bluebeard Possibilities, Boulet, Cate Gardner, character chart, Chicken with Plums, China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Cloud Atlas, cursive, Dan DeCarlo, Daria, David Mitchell, David Remnick, death, dioramas, Director's Cut (2011), disconnection, disease, Don Draper, Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Spann Craig, England, Flowers in the Attic, Harry Crews, Harry Potter, Hounds of Love (1985), In Search Of and Others, J.K. Rowling, James Joyce, James Potter, Jane Eyre, Jean-Luc PIcard, John Irving, Jonathan Carroll, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Juan Santapau, Jubilee, Kaiju Life, Kate Bush, Kathy Acker, Kelly Williams, Kevin Wilson, Krissy Brady, Lana Wachowski, Lawrence Schimel, letters, Life of Pi, Lisa Simpson, Love and Anger, Margot Tenenbaum, marionettes, Marjane Satrapi, Marnie Dresser, Mary Marvel, Mary Poppins and Henry the Eighth, Matilda Wormwood, Maurice Sendak, Molly Bloom, Myriapod Productions, Mysteries of Vernacular, Natalie Goldberg, Ned Beauman, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Nicolas Cabaret, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, One Last Look Around the House Before We Go, optical illusions, Patti Smith, photography, polar bears, Postcard Stories, reading lists, Rick Moody, Rory Gilmore, Rosedale, Ross J. Brown, Sawyer, short stories (writing), Sofia Rhei, Stewie Griffin, stress, Subterranean Press, Susanna Clarke, Tansy Rayner Roberts, tattoos (authors'), Terran Lane, The Baining, the human brain, The Mechanical Heart of Him, The New Yorker, The Ninth Wave, The Power of the Cocoon, The Sandman, The Secret Knots, The Sensual World (1990), The Sensual World (song), The Seven Deadly Sins, The Super Team Family Blog, The Teleportation Accident, The Universe, The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Tom Tykwer, Ulysses, Ursula Nordstrom, V.C. Andrews, vertigo (not Hitchcock), Vincent Paronnaud, Waking the Witch, Where the Wonder Women Are, Will Ludwigsen, Wonder Woman, writing (organization), writing (submissions), writing prompts, Yann Martel, Yorkshire
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ This past week my friend Ruth Facebook-linked to Jonathan Moreau’s photograph of the library parking garage in Kansas City. Wouldn’t it be nice to have something like this garage … Continue reading →
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Tagged AlphaBooks, Aquaman, Arvo Pärt, Batman, Ben Towle, Better Book Titles, Blair Erickson, book shelves, BookRiot, books about books, cake, Cameron Cook, Charles Murray Padday, Charles Santore, Charles Schulz, Charlie Jane Anders, children's books, Chuck Wendig, Cinderella, Comic-Con International: San Diego, comics (writing), Creative Commons, Crockett Johnson, Daily Science Fiction, Dan Hillier, deafness, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Hand, Evan Robertson, Fables, fairy tales, fairy tales (art), fantasy (writing), film trailers, Fractured Fairy Tales (gallery show), Franz Kappus, From Kane to Nolan: Seventy Years of Bat Evolution, Funny or Die, Gennady Spirin, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Helena Garcia, Hellboy in Hell, Hermione Granger, hint reviews, Holli Mintzer, Hope Mirrlees, Hungary, infographics, IQ, J.H. Williams III, James Hutchings, James Joyce, Jeanie Tomanek, Joao Ruas, Jonathan Moreau, Kansas City, Kate Beaton, Kate Chopin, Kelly Thompson, Kelly Williams, Kevin Bapp, Kinuko Y. Craft, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Letters to a Young Poet, libraries, Little Wolf Riding Hood, Love the Mermaids and You, Lud-in-the-Mist, lying, M.D. Herter Norton, Marie Rutkoski, Mermaid, Michael Cunningham, Michael Swanwick, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Nikola Tesla, omniscient narrator, opening sentence (fantasy novels), optical illusions, oxytocin, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Peanuts, Penelope Trunk, polyandry, Prince Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de La Lanne-Mirrlees, prodigy, Pulitzer prize (Fiction), Quotable Arts, Radio Free Other, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ruth Sanderson, Sam Raimi, Seinfeld, self-publishing, selkies, steampunk (cakes), Stefan Kiesbye, Super Golden Friends, Superman, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Awakening, The Golden Girls, The Hanging Garden, The Nature of Cinderella, The Oatmeal, The Sandman, Theodora Goss, toxic waste, typos, Ulysses, Will Ludwigsen, Wonderful World of Animation, WWA Gallery, Your House Is on Fire Your Children All Gone
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Danish artist John Kenn Mortensen draws these wonderful monsters on Post-It Notes, and he posts new monsters regularly on his blog. I have a book of his monsters published … Continue reading →
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Tagged acknowledgement page, Alan Garner, Allen Ginsberg, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, anthropology, antiques (medical), ants (translucent), authors (bizarre deaths), Baba Yaga, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Towle, Benh Zeitlin, bibliophiles, Bob Dylan, book shelves, bookcases, books by the linear foot, Briar Rose, Cameron Cook, Carlos Severe Marcelin, Charlie Jane Anders, Chooo-San, Chuck Wendig, Cormac McCarthy, culling books, Doctor Who, Dr. Seuss, El Libro Que No Puede Esperar, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Emilie Simon, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Eterna Cadencia, F.R. Tallis, fantasy films, Francesca Ramos, Garrett Hedlund, Gary Oldman, George Orwell, Google search techniques, graduation gifts, Graham Joyce, Harper Lee, home libraries (design), home libraries (planning), horror fiction, horror films, houses (floating), Hunter S. Thompson, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Jamie Bell, Jane Yolen, John Kenn Mortensen, John Steinbeck, Julian Barnes, Kristing Kathryn Rusch, Kyle Thompson, Laurent Chehere, lava, libraries, library collection-development services, lists (science fiction/fantasy authors), Looper, Magic Mike, magical-realist films, maps, Mary Robinette Kowal, Matt Staggs, Maurice Sendak, Michael Kimball, monsters, moon (if it had never formed), Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, music videos, Nagai Hideyuki, Neil Gaiman, Oh The Places You'll Go, optical illusions, Patricia Barletta, poetry, Post-It Notes, Prada, Prometheus, Roald Dahl, Robert C. O'Brien, Sarah Manguso, Sarah Selecky, science (weird and otherwise), science-fiction films, Seamus Heaney, Sean Hathaway, Snow White and the Huntsman, steampunk (clothing), stop-motion animation, TARDIS, Teddy Ruxpin, The Big Rip Theory, The Book That Can't Wait, The McGurk Effect, The Owl Service, The Possession, The Rules of Magic, Time, toilets (physics), Tom Gauld, typewriters, typography, urban fantasy, Virginia Woolf, Visual Capture Illusion, Willem Dafoe, Woody Allen, world building, writing, writing (cover letters), writing (longhand), writing (organization), writing (outlines), writing (query letters), writing (sex), writing (submission letters), You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The summer solstice (the longest day of the year) was last week, and in celebration Irene Gallo rounded up a collection of paintings her artist friends “thought best represented … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Moore, AlphaBooks, Andy Hull, Angelina Jolie, arsenic, Art Spiegelman, Austria Solar, Ben Towle, book cover art, book promotion, Bookfession, BookRiot, Christoffer Relander, Chuck Wendig, colors (women), Daniel Clowes, Disney, dolphin, Dungeons & Dragons, editors, Eeyore, Elizabeth Spann Craig, fairy-tale photography, family trees, fantasy, fantasy (writing), Futurama (title sequence), gas masks, Gérard Dubois, Housekeeping, Irene Gallo, Janice Hardy, Jasper Fforde, Kirsty Mitchell, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leni Zumas, library system, love (addiction), Maleficent, Marilynne Robinson, multiple-exposure portraits, N.K. Jemison, Neil Gaiman, novel (writing), octopus, Once Upon a Blog, peppermints, Pytor, reading speed, scared to death, setting (as character), summer, summer solstice, Sutured Infection, The Eyre Affair, The Rules of Magic, The Simpsons, The Solar Annual Report 2011, The Storyteller, The Woman Who Died a Lot, Theodora Goss, Thomas Allen, Thursday Next, Ursula K. Le Guin, What Was That Book?, world building (short stories)
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Michael Cunningham is one of my favorite authors (I have not read By Nightfall yet, so don’t tell me about it), and when I saw a link to a … Continue reading →
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Tagged AlphaBooks, Ben Towle, Benedict Cumberbatch, brand (authors), business cards, Caravaggio, Christopher Boffoli, Chuck Wendig, Clark&Kent, comics (writing), Connie Willis, Disparity, Doomsday Book, Dr. Dillamond, Dylan Meconis, Elizabeth Hand, Franz Kafka, Gregory Maguire, HGTV, honeybees, House Hunters, House Hunters International, Jo Walton, Joshua Simpson, Kathy Keatley Garvey, Kickstarter, Leda, libraries, LitReactor, magazines, Michael Cunningham, Miss Aniela, Neal Patrick Harris, Neil Gaiman, Outfoxed, peanut butter cups, platform (authors), Postcard Stories, Renaissance painters, Robert Jackson Bennett, Roberto Ferri, Scott McCloud, SF Signal, swans, The Crying of Lot 49, The Metamorphosis, Thomas Pynchon, Tony Awards, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Will Ludwigsen, Work in Progress (FSG)
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