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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The 2012 Chelsey Awards were given last week in recognition of excellence in genre art. The winners produced quite an amazing collection of art to feast your eyes upon, … Continue reading →
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Tagged 30 Pounds of Human Tissue by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Dreams, A Wizard at War by A.M. Roelke, Adam Mills, AlphaBooks, autoerotic asphyxiation, Ben Towle, Birds and Birthdays, Bonnie Tyler, book cover art (design theories), Breaking the Frame by Kat Howard, Brothers Grimm, Cartographer's Ink by Beth Cato, Charlie Jane Anders, chocolate, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Barzak, Christopher Kubasik, Courtney Carpenter, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Phoenix, Dorothea Tanning, Edith Wharton's library, Electric Velocipede, electrified plants, Fin Fang Foom, forensics, genre, Grimm's Fairy Tales, haka, harvester ants, Heaven Under Earth by Aliette de Bodard, Hellboy, hermaphrodite sex, Hulu, I Dreamed the Moon by Julia Rios, Jabberwocky, James Scott Bell, Joe Bunting, John Bertram, L. Frank Baum, Lady Sif, Lee Pace, Legion by Brandon Sanderson, Legolas, Lightspeed, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl, Marc Basile, Mary Shelley, Matt Damon, Matthew Olin, Michael Parkes, Michael Pollan, miniatures, Moonstruck (bronze) by Michael Parkes, mythology (world) cultural appropriation, Neil Rivas, New Zealand, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, Quebec City Magic Festival, Recovering Lolita, Royal New Zealand Infantry, Ryan Gosling, skin cake, Snow White, soft drinks, sperm, Stefan Tosheff, storm troopers, strokes, Superboy (new), Sutured Infection, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The 2012 Chelsey Awards, The Booth at the End, The Highly Sensitive Person and the Writer by Susan Sipal, The Hobbit (film), The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Spectre, The Super Team Family Blog, The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), The Three Graces (painting) by Michael Parkes, The Wizard of Oz, Theodora Goss, Thranduil, Tim Tadder, Tom Gauld, Total Eclipse of the Heart, travel writing, Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo, Undoing Winter by Shannon Connor Winward, Vampirella, Watching Rockets by John Philip Johnson, Water Wigs, webseries, Weird and Proud of It by Johanna Sinisalo, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, William Faulkner, Wonder Man, writing (novellas), writing (novels), writing (romance), writing (setbacks & stumbling blocks), writing (short stories), writing houses, Xander Berkeley
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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 →
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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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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ For those of you who dream of singing in the rain or in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, or who dream of multiple covers of Rhianna‘s “Umbrella” (by the by, I love … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Distant Soil, Agatha Harkness, All Time Low, AlphaBooks, amnesia, Andrew Neal, anime, Annie Bellet, Anthony Hope Smith, Armless Maiden, Armless Maidens of the American West, Barcelona, basilisk, Ben Towle, Better Than Sunnydale, book-spine poetry, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chris Berens, Christina Hendricks, Chuck Wendig, Colleen Doran, creativity, crime rate, cryptids, cryptozoology, Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walters Grintalis, daydreaming, Dear Editor Enclosed Please Find My Story about Your Unfortunate Demise, dioramas, Dracula, Ekaterina Fawl, ElfQuest, fan fiction/fan art, fingernails, Genevieve Valentine, Glenn Barr, Greer Gilman, Harry Potter, Hogwarts fashion, home libraries (organization), Hush, Ice, immortality, Innocence Rearranged, interviews, J.K. Rowling, Jean Grey, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Williams, Kickstarter, La memoire douloureuse (The Painful Memory), Lady of the Cloth, landscape, literary devices in science fiction, Lord Voldemort, Luc Reid, Lucy Westenra, Luna Lovegood, Mad Men, Mandy Moore, manga, Marc Giai-Miniet, Mary Poppins, Matthew Weiner, motif, Museum of Modern Art MOMA, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Almeida, psychopath, publishing, pupil dilation, Rhianna, Sailor Moon, self-publishing, sexuality, Sherlock Holmes, sociopath, Stephen Quay, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Curious Case of Version 47.13, The Gentlemen, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Other Woman, The Quay Brothers, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Thomas Jonte, Thoughts of Tethys, Timothy Quay, To Be Undone By Such Small Things, Tokyo's Tokyo, transition as metaphor, Umbrella, Where the Wonder Women Are, wizarding gene
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently, for this my fiftieth Magpie Monday post: ♦ This image by Jeremy Dower makes me happy. Based in Melbourne, Dower uses Photoshop to create his digital 2D paintings, and his … Continue reading →
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Tagged 'Salem's Lot, A Sketch of the Past, Adam Leipzig, Alexandra Seidel, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, aMAZEme, Andrew Neal, Annalee Newitz, Aqueduct Press, Batgirl, Batwoman, Ben Towle, Best Books for Writers, Birds and Birthdays, Blue Moon, blurbs, book promotion, card illusions, Catherynne M. Valente, Catwoman, Chris Claremont, Christopher Barzak, Chuck Wendig, Data Never Sleeps (infographic), Dave McKean, David Mohan, Days of Future Past, Deathless, Doctor Strange, Domo, Dorothea Tanning, Douglas Coupland, Dr. Doom, formatting, genre, Gina Rosati, gravity hills, Gualter Pupo, Huntress, immortality, Jabberwocky, Jeremy Dower, John Byrne, José Luis Borges, Just MyType, Kaa, Kendall Evans, Kickstarter, Kinbote, Koschei the Deathless, Krissy Brady, Kurt Barlow, Leah Palmer Preiss, Lee Pegler, Leonora Carrington, Madame Xanadu, Marcos Saboya, Mary Marvel, Marya Morevna, Mike Scott, Mr. Fox, Mur Lafferty, nasal hallucinations, Neil Gaiman, Nicole M. Taylor, Night Shade Books, No Return, Nora Ephron, Pale Fire, Paul Tobin, Penelope Trunk, Poets & Writers, Queen, Rachel Summers, Remedios Varo, Robin, Rudyard Kipling, Samantha Henderson, Sentinels, Simon Garfield, Smoke and Mirrors, Stephen King, Subterranean Press, Superman, Superman vs. Wonder Woman, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Ancient One, the art of the remake, The Cairn in Slater Woods, The Jungle Book, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Periodic Table of Typefaces, The Phantom Stranger, The Super Team Family Blog, The White Road, Thomas Allen, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Where the Wonder Women Are, Who Wants to Live Forever, Wonder Woman, writing (query letters), X-Men, X-Men: First Class, Zachary Jernigan
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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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