dancingwriter

Milestones

dancingwriter Sep 17, 2010 14:50

"I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me."
--Jane Yolen

A couple days ago I turned in the manuscript for the fifth book in my Fantastic Creatures series, Unicorns. When it comes out next year, ( Read more... )

In memoriam

dancingwriter Sep 11, 2010 11:18

"Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of God."
Qur’an 2:115

And this:

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I deeply love those last lines:

one said with an Afghan tongue:
Teach me to dance. We have no music here.
And the other said with a Spanish tongue:
I will teach you. Music is all we have.

You can read the whole poem at

my DragonCon schedule

dancingwriter Aug 30, 2010 17:26

Title: Broad Universe Rapid Fire Readings: Time Travel Time: Fri 04:00 pm Location: International C - Westin (Length: 1) Description: The ladies of Broad Universe take you on a time-traveling trip-tic of storytelling featuring visions of the past, present and future ( Read more... )

dragoncon

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dancingwriter Aug 15, 2010 11:24

Dear Author ( Read more... )

steampunk, reading

DragonCon!

dancingwriter Aug 09, 2010 12:34

DragonCon is less than a month away, and I'm getting really excited about it--especially now that I've received my panel assignments from the DragonCon programming committee ( Read more... )

dragoncon

A year

dancingwriter Jun 10, 2010 18:09

As many of you know, on June 9 last year, I had heart surgery to repair a severe coarctation of the aorta--that is, my aorta (the main artery coming out of the heart) had severely narrowed, substantially reducing blood flow to my internal organs and legs. This was my second coarctation repair; I had the first when I was eight, the youngest child at ( Read more... )

health

my first podcast

dancingwriter May 20, 2010 13:18

The background: Last year I joined Broad Universe (http://broaduniverse.org/), a wonderful organization that promotes science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women. One of the things BU does is hold "rapid-fire readings" at conventions. In these events, a half dozen or so BU members ( Read more... )

wip, podcast, arise

a book review

dancingwriter Feb 23, 2010 16:44

Larklight by Philip Reeve

Aptly subtitled A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space, this is an enjoyable read for ages nine (or thereabouts) and up. It's an adventure set in a Victorian space age, written as Jules Verne or H.G. Wells might have imagined it. The plot is exciting, the writing deft and witty, so that adults ( Read more... )

steampunk, books

Meet the professor

dancingwriter Feb 23, 2010 08:02

A couple posts ago I mentioned that kingofthewho is writing a serial on Facebook about his steampunk alter ego, Prof. Wolfram Von Zott. Knowing that not everyone is a fan of FB, he's started posting his serial here, too, on the professor's very own LJ. So if you desire an entertaining read--complete with airship adventure, mad science, mystery, and maybe even ( Read more... )

steampunk, linkage, beloved

feminist science fiction--from Victorian India

dancingwriter Feb 21, 2010 11:35

This morning, thanks to a discussion on the Steampunk Empire website, I discovered a treasure: a short story called "Sultana's Dream" by an Indian writer named Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein. All I know about her is that she lived from 1880 to 1932 and that, according to the Celebration of Women Writers site (where the story appears) "Sultana's Dream ( Read more... )

sff, feminism, women-writers, victoriana