Writer’s Digest is giving away a ticket to the San Francisco Writers Conference. I’m entering to win, because this is the year of the dragon, which means it’s my year. :D I confess, I would be utterly unprepared to go, and I would have about a week to get ready, …
I always try to make my first post of the year my reading list for the year, so I can find it easily. Last year I read 77 books, 10 of which were nonfiction. I’m going to try to make that 15 nonfiction in the coming year. 2012 Reading List …
Ganked from a lot of my friends, here’s the NPR’s Most Popular Sci-Fi & Fantasy novels meme. I voted, and of course am outraged that some of my favorites didn’t place very high (or even make the list. WTF where is Paks?!) but I’m pleased that I’ve read a bunch …
Cannot wait for m_stiefvater’s next book, Forever, to hit shelves! Check out this gorgeous stop-animation book trailer. And she wrote that hauntingly beautiful music for it too! You can pre-order the book here at Fountain Bookstore. I’ll be doing that myself very shortly. :)
“Writer’s block is a common malady. Most people (especially those who don’t write) don’t understand it. And many writers don’t understand it, either. If you understand how and why something works, you are halfway to solving your problem. So I propose now to remove the mystery surrounding writer’s block. Ready?
I haven’t actually read any books yet this year! I have joined Goodreads.com though. My profile is here if any of you feel like joining. larinzia has inspired me to try to keep a better list, but it probably won’t happen. LOL Books read in 2009 Gone for Good – …
Magic Lost, Trouble Found – Lisa Shearin (a present from krycek_chick!!) Captain’s Fury – Jim Butcher The Goblin Wood – Hilari Bell Austenland – Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale Iron Kissed – Patricia Briggs Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke Coyote Road – ed …
Well, not really. But I’ve just noticed that the town where I was born made USA Today. The monument at the Tippecanoe Battlefield was ‘defaced’. The so-called vandals wrote “America repent” and “Tecumsehs not dead” [sic] and “Give us back our spiritual capital.” Everyone is appalled, of course…but me, I …
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton
The last time I was at Spring Mill, I was about 10 and we were camping there. We did a LOT of camping when I was younger. We only had one car, and Mom didn’t work until I was in fifth grade, so a lot of times we would take …