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Magpie Monday

Posted on 3 December 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ “It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged " She Says. "You're Tails." by M. Bennardo, "You're Heads, A Small But Helpful Stray Panda by Erin Morgenstern, A Wizard of the Roads by Therese Arkenberg, A&E, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Stott, Asperger's, autism, baby heads made out of chocolate, Bates Motel, BBC, binge-eating, Blake Charlton, Book Mania!, card flourishes, Charles Dickens, Chuck Wendig, City of Dark Magic (excerpt) by Magnus Flyte, conflict & tension, Daily Science Fiction, David Malki!, education, Ego the Living Planet, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Eternal Wanderer, flax-golden tales, Francesca Ramos, Galactus, Galaxy NGC 1277, Grant Snider, Hannah Christenson, Heads Will Roll by Lish McBride, hoarding, home libraries (design), Homo Homarus by Ellen Denham, how a butcher sees a human body, idioms (food), Impulse (excerpt) by Steven Gould, Jabberwocky, James Joyce, Jeremy Zerfoss, John Bishop, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Kate Chopin, Krissy Brady, Kylie Minogue, Lemony Snicket, Letter Writing Day, libraries, Lightspeed, Neil Cohn, New Teen Titans, Nick Cave, novel (writing), novella, Psycho (1960), research papers (writing), sauce, screenplays, Seven Smiles and Seven Frowns by Richard Bowes, story structures, Strange Horizons, structure (writing), Susanna Clarke, The Awakening, The Dead, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The Key to Everything by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Lump of Coal, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Safe Road by Caroline M. Yoachim, The Three Immigrations (a poem) by Rose Lemberg, The White by Berit Ellingsen, Theodora Goss, Tim Callahan, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trigon, Vilnius University Library (Lithuania), Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wild Roses Grow, Winter, winter is coming (winter is here), Wondermark | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Art Nouveau portraits. Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged akinetopsia, ambient music, Anastasia, animation, Art Nouveau (portraits), astronomy, Bigby Wolf, Bill Willingham, Billy Nunez, Black Lady (Sailor Moon), book cover art, Book Mania!, Bryan Singer, Christina Oppold, Chuck Wendig, Cinder, Craig Hamilton, Crysta (Fern Gully), Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, Daniel Dos Santos, Dave Hensley, David Malki!, death of film, Derek Kirk Kim, Dr Atmo, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, etymology, Fables, failing vs. quitting, FAX +49-69/450464, film trailers, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, frogs, frost flowers, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hawkeye, home libraries (design), I Have Your Heart, intelligence supplements, interviews, io9, Irvine Welsh, Isles of the Sun by Margo Lanagan, Jack the Giant Slayer, jerks (attraction to), Jim Batt, Jim Fern, Joe Daly, John Kenn Mortensen, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Juls Chong, Katherine Salant, Kickstarter, Kim Boekbinder, kishokahime, Leakey’s Second Hand Bookshop, Lili (Legend), linguistics, London, lunar phases, Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice), Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds by Mike Allen, Malta (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child), Mark Farmer, Molly Crabapple, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil's Puppet Dreams, Night Shade Books, No Return, Odette (The Swan Princess), Pete Namlook, Pi vs. Pie, Porno, Ray Snyder, Right Here by David Steffen, Robbie Trevino, Russell Hinson, Sarah (Labyrinth), Scarlet, science fiction (history), seals, self-surgery, short films, siblings, Skagboys, Slow by Erin Morgenstern, Sorsha (Willow), Speed of Love by Deborah Walker, stop-motion animation, Strange Horizons, Susan J. Morris, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Childlike Empress (The Neverending Story), The Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn), The Milky Way, The Most Important Man in the Universe by Joseph Zieja, The Nerdist, The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer, The Simpsons, The Stone Badger by Misha Nogha, The Trap by Steven Kahn, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Your Problem, Thumbelina, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trainspotting, Tune: Vanishing Point, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wondermark, Zachary Jernigan | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 2 July 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Danish artist John Kenn Mortensen draws these wonderful monsters on Post-It Notes, and he posts new monsters regularly on his blog. I have a book of his monsters published … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged acknowledgement page, Alan Garner, Allen Ginsberg, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, anthropology, antiques (medical), ants (translucent), authors (bizarre deaths), Baba Yaga, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Towle, Benh Zeitlin, bibliophiles, Bob Dylan, book shelves, bookcases, books by the linear foot, Briar Rose, Cameron Cook, Carlos Severe Marcelin, Charlie Jane Anders, Chooo-San, Chuck Wendig, Cormac McCarthy, culling books, Doctor Who, Dr. Seuss, El Libro Que No Puede Esperar, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Emilie Simon, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Eterna Cadencia, F.R. Tallis, fantasy films, Francesca Ramos, Garrett Hedlund, Gary Oldman, George Orwell, Google search techniques, graduation gifts, Graham Joyce, Harper Lee, home libraries (design), home libraries (planning), horror fiction, horror films, houses (floating), Hunter S. Thompson, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Jamie Bell, Jane Yolen, John Kenn Mortensen, John Steinbeck, Julian Barnes, Kristing Kathryn Rusch, Kyle Thompson, Laurent Chehere, lava, libraries, library collection-development services, lists (science fiction/fantasy authors), Looper, Magic Mike, magical-realist films, maps, Mary Robinette Kowal, Matt Staggs, Maurice Sendak, Michael Kimball, monsters, moon (if it had never formed), Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, music videos, Nagai Hideyuki, Neil Gaiman, Oh The Places You'll Go, optical illusions, Patricia Barletta, poetry, Post-It Notes, Prada, Prometheus, Roald Dahl, Robert C. O'Brien, Sarah Manguso, Sarah Selecky, science (weird and otherwise), science-fiction films, Seamus Heaney, Sean Hathaway, Snow White and the Huntsman, steampunk (clothing), stop-motion animation, TARDIS, Teddy Ruxpin, The Big Rip Theory, The Book That Can't Wait, The McGurk Effect, The Owl Service, The Possession, The Rules of Magic, Time, toilets (physics), Tom Gauld, typewriters, typography, urban fantasy, Virginia Woolf, Visual Capture Illusion, Willem Dafoe, Woody Allen, world building, writing, writing (cover letters), writing (longhand), writing (organization), writing (outlines), writing (query letters), writing (sex), writing (submission letters), You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack | Comments Off

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