The Revenge of Shaken & Stirred
I will happily try to answer Asks. Just drop them via the Magic 8 Ball (aka Ask) at the top of the page. And shake.
Well, since my second novel is titled The Woken Gods, out later this year, and is about just that, I have thought a great deal about what appeals to me in stories about the mythic (and what doesn’t). There were two big things that inspired The Woken Gods: my love for Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World and my desire for more stories where gods were threatening or dangerous. I wanted to explore a more ambiguous morality, with gods that were not anything like oversized humans. I also have a real soft spot for stories that feature more than one pantheon; though, having undertaken one, I now understand why it’s more usual to see people pick Greek or Norse or Egyptian and stick with it.
I participated in a new Mind Meld posted today. Read more at the link — as well as lots of contributions from other wonderful peoples like Chuck Wendig, Mike Underwood, Adam Christopher and Tessa Gratton.
Let me first start this post by saying I know a little about book packaging, but purely from the outside in—through knowing authors who’ve done it as work-for-hire and people who worked at packaging houses and as a general “watcher of the industry” and articles that get written about it. None of that makes me an expert. But. The most interesting thing about watching heads explode this morning on twitter over the new announcement that Amazon has reached licensing agreements with Alloy/WBs (with more in the works) to allow writers to sell fanfic set in the Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl…
Over at the other place, I talk about what packaging is in light of the discussion around the fanfic news today.
“Such as people all but fleeing in horror when the word was mentioned. “Gnomes?” said one exhibitor on Monday, when the show opened in preview. “I can’t comment on gnomes.” ” Gnomes Pop Up at Chelsea Flower Show, to Horror of Many - NYTimes.com
Best story of the day? Maybe of the year. (Via Laura Miller.)
Who out there is supporting “I read YA week”? Tell us what you’re reading right now!
Because we read YA
Sara Zarr’s The Lucy Variations. Which is AMAZING. Of course.
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Number two might be the slightly older version of a character in something I’m working on.
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The White Stripes, “Little Room,” off White Blood Cells (2001)
“Well you’re in your little room
and you’re working on something good
but if it’s really good
you’re gonna need a bigger room
and when you’re in the bigger room
you might not know what to do
you might have to think of
how you got started in your little room”Perfect 50 seconds. And 10 years old…
Rinse, repeat, replay.
It’s the ten-year anniversary of the Buffy series finale. Here’s to you, Slayer.
Truth? I still miss it. (And the stake my friend Mandy took from the set for me is still one of my prized possessions. Talisman!)
Middle bottom Betty and bottom left Veronica are my faves.
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Death stops the manuscript. (via)
Every writer’s fear: Murder most foul mid-manuscript.
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