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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Prior to seeing the image below on Terri Windling’s blog, I’d never heard of Kelly Louise Judd before. How is that possible? Her work is exquisite and reminds me … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged "Tequila" Yuen, AlphaBooks, Andrew Wheeler, animation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beautiful Evidence, Ben Towl, Bill and Ted, Birds and Birthdays, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Brian Azzarello, China Miéville, Chris Bird, Christopher Barzak, Cloudburst by Thomas Allen, cosplay, costumes, cremation, Dana Scully, Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Darren Criss, Davinder Brar, dolls, Edward Scissorhands, Endymion by Roz Kaveney, Espresso Book Machine, film trailers, Fire, Fox Mulder, free indirect discourse, Harry Potter, Joe Hill, John Byrne, Justice League, Justine Larbalestier, Kelly Louise Judd, Kingdom Come, know what you write, Leonora Carrington, magic realism, magic systems, magical-realist films, Marc Basile, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Downs (The Craft), Nancy Drew, Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Neil Gaiman, Perched by Kelly Louise Judd, poetry (found), Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky, Remedios Varo, Roz Kaveney, Rufus, school lunch, Song of the Sea, spontaneous combustion, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Steve McQueen, Stray Books by Grant Snider, stress and genes, Superman, Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston, Swan Bones Theater, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Terri Windling-Gayton, Th Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Corinthian, The League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons 1996, The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra Portugal, The Sandman, The Secret of Kells, The Watchmaker's Wife by Lydia S. Gray, Thomas Allen, Tom Gauld, Under the Tree by Tania Hershman, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (villains), writing (process), Zach Morris (sociopath)
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Video Friday
Foxes, foxes, everywhere! First up is Metro by Jacob Wyatt, a beautifully designed short fantasy film (and such wonderful colors). I love that the fox is a white shadow and that the underground is like a forest. Metro was Wyatt’s student film at … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Fox Tale, Alexandre Cazals, animation, Brigham Young University Center for Animation, Chao Ma, Daniel Sousa, Feral, film trailers, foxes, Jacob Wyatt, Julien Legay, kitsune, Metro, short films, Supinfocom Arles, Thomas Bozovic
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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 →
Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday
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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: ♦ More sad news last week: iconic author Ray Bradbury died June 5th at the age of 91. The interwebs were ablaze with appreciations, essays, obituaries, reflections and tributes, the … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", Adam Mills, Alan Rickman, All the Wrong Questions, AlphaBooks, Apex Magazine, Awesome People Reading, Barack Obama, Ben Towle, Beyond Katrina, bisexuality, Blocked, Bonnie Zare, book shelves, bookcases, BookRiot, Cameron Cook, Carmina Burana, Carrie, Catherynne M. Valente, Charlize Theron, Chuck Wendig, Darmok, David Lynch, death, dioramas, Erik Martin, fairy-tale films, film trailers, flashmobs, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease continuum, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Level, Fragile Things, Game of Thrones, Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Hamish Linklater, horror fiction, Ian Withrow, io9, Jack Zipes, Jeff VanderMeer, John Crowley, John D. Boswell, John W. Doull Bookseller, Junot Díaz, Lego, Leigh Bardugo, Lemony Snicket, libraries, LitReactor, Locus, M.C. Escher, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Memory Palace, metaphors, Mirror Mirror, Mister Rogers, Mr. Peabody, Natasha Trethewey, Neil Gaiman, Nick Mamatas, Once Upon a Blog, Once Upon a Time, Paradoxymoron, Patrick Hughes, PBS, photography (ghost mother), Pittsburgh, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), readability-index calculator, Sam Wolk, SF Signal, Shadow and Bone, Sherman, Slinkachu, Snow White and the Huntsman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Stephen King, Thailand, The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, The Beat, The Garden of Your Mind, The Hanging Garden, The Ladies' Deposit, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Old Library Trinity College, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Symphony of Science, The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better than You Normally Do, The Washington Post, The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale, Theodora Goss, There Will Come Soft Rains, Time, Tor.com, U.S. Poet Laureate, Ultra Violet, Underwords, Wang Saen Suk Hell Park, Will Ludwigsen, writers (bad behavior), writers' workshops, xkcd
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I came across so many wonderful images of bookshelves this week I didn’t know what to do with myself. Here are three that really struck my fancy: The first … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Scott, AlphaBooks, Andrew Marvell, Annalee Newitz, author notebooks, Batman, Ben Towle, Benjamin Lacombe, Book Mania!, book shelves, bookcases, Bookshelf blog, Cameron Cook, Charlie Jane Anders, children's books (French), children's books (German), children's books (terrifying), Chocorua Review, Chuck Wendig, Cliff Chiang, Damien G. Walter, DC Comics, deaths (weird), Der Struwwelpeter, Diane Dillon, DIY MFA, Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Ellen Von Unwerth, Emily Brontë, Eva Sangnoir, fairy tales, fairy tales (disturbing), fairy tales (horror), fairy-tale films, fairy-tale illustration, film trailers, Fugu & Tako, Gavin Aung Than, goatee (evil), Green Lantern, growing cabinet, Hurry Up We're Dreaming, Irene Gallo, James Joyce, Jenny Chen, Jo Walton, Kate Beaton, Kate Bush, Katherine Langrish, Keira Knightley, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leo Dillon, Leopold Bloom, LitReactor, M83, Mansa Musa, Margo Lanagan, Matej Kren, Midnight City, Neil Gaiman, Nicholas Rombes, Nick Mamatas, poets (humor), Prague Municipal Library, puffer fish, Radio Free Other, Reunion, ROBOT, selkies, Shiba Ryotaro, Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, Snow White, Superdickery, superheroes (gay), The Brides of Rollrock Island, The Evelyn Variant, The Girl Who Spun Gold, The Onion, The Runaways, The Tyger, Theodora Goss, Time time time see what's become of me, To His Coy Mistress, Ulysses, Van Dyke (evil), Warren Ellis, Wicker Man, William Blake, writing (autobiographical elements), writing (cover letters), writing (crime), writing (dialogue), writing (emotion), writing (mood), writing (novels in verse), writing (novels), writing (preparing for a career), writing workshops, Wuthering Heights
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