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Larkstorm!
December 6th is a very good day (and it technically hasn't arrived here yet, but it's December 6th elsewhere in the world).
Larkstorm by Dawn Rae Miller is out!
It's been over a year since I first read this story in one of its earlier incarnations. And my first response was to babble about how I loved it, and how I would have read it straight through ( Read more... ) -
A Diagram of the Life and Career of an Intern
I decided that I should spend a portion of my holiday weekend creating a diagram of my history since graduating college. COLORS! LITTLE ILLUSTRATIONS! And lots of arrows!
It's always quite a bit to sum up whenever a relative or former classmate asks. There is this reasonable expectation the one should be able to provide a simple response. Y'know, ( Read more... ) -
Summer Logic
Laura over at her blog, Ink: In All Forms, dictated that folks should write about their summer reading goals. One cannot deny a lady who likes Kenshin. (Man, I need to listen to the opening theme now.)
There are those books you always expect to have to read for school. You recognize their covers, clutched between the fingers of the bigger, smarter ( Read more... ) -
Slightly Used Brother Not for Sale
Each of the three narrators has a brother or sister (or both). Nick has his older brother, Alan. Mae has her little brother, Jamie. Sin has a younger brother and sister, Toby and Lydie. And each of these characters will do anything for their brothers or sisters. It is their driving motivations. Their entire lives are centered on these people.
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BEA 2011
This was my second BEA, which meant that I wisely knew to come prepared. I had a spreadsheet to keep my schedule organized, a giant rolling suitcase to lug my prizes, and plenty of packed snacks so I could I avoid the pricey selection at Javits.
The best part about attending this year was definitely the fact that I knew people. I recognized faces, ( Read more... ) -
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"Apprentices Interns are people who are training for a trade or skill, which means they are usually quite young and bad at what they do. Most of the time they are like nurses during an operation, being there only to hand the master his tools. They seem to have to do this for a good many years before they get to do anything more interesting, and it ( Read more... ) -
A Tale of Rereading
I have a remarkable memory for books. It’s both a blessing and a curse. (In high school, I totally aced those quotations quizzes. Guess who never got to join the epic F Wall we had going on in the senior lounge?) Details stick with me. Plot arcs. The endings. Twists. All of them are firmly lodged in my noggin. The fact is, I can’t reread books ( Read more... ) -
If only...
In honor of the absurdly awesome video by David Kazzie. (On the unlikely chance you haven't seen this video yet, be sure to check it out: So You Want to Write a Novel )
I couldn't resist making an icon of one of my absolute favorite lines.
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Oh, Livejournal, I have missed you tremendously. I will be honest and admit that LJ is my true blogging home. Wordpress frustrates me. Blogspot has a bad habit of freaking my computer, Bucket, out. As in when I go to close the site, my laptop's response will be something along the lines of !?!?! followed by opening the same page countless times in ( Read more... )
