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Tag Archives: Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I really love paper artist Su Blackwell‘s work, and the reason why is illustrated in “The Snow Queen” (photographed by Johanna Parkin): On her website, Blackwell describes her work thus: … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Belli, AlphaBooks, Azazello, Ben Towle, Black Box, BookRiot, Caitlin Lehman, Chuck Wendig, comic-book movie heroines, comics, David Abrams, David Malki!, David R. Slavitt, Eljay Daly, Evelyn Waugh, fairy tales, fairy-tale films, four-letter words, Genevieve Farrell, genre and pop, genre is disruptive technology, George Singleton, Greg Rucka, Henry David Thoreau, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, Ira Glass, Jeff O'Neal, Jennifer Egan, Johanna Parkin, John Scalzi, Jonathan Coulton, Late Bloomers, lending books, Lev Grossman, Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Humphreys, Mikhail Bulgakov, National Short Story Month, Order vs. Chaos, plotters vs pantsers, quiet desperation, Re: Your Brains, Richard Parks, Ryan Britt, Salts Made from Tears, Shoshana Kessock, small talk, Snow White and the Seven Movies, Su Blackwell, swears, teaching writing, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Master and Margarita, The Snow Queen, Tom Gauld, Twitter, villains, Wondermark, word clouds, Wordle, X-Men
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ In Wales, Simon Dale built his family a lovely Hobbit house into the side of a hill for only £3,000 (about $4,800 USD). Pretty impressive, considering the budget and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, Chet Phillips, Dean Haspiel, Earthsea, EkaKaramelka, graphic novels, Henry Rollins, Hobbit house, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, Jeff VanderMeer, Jo Walton, Kelly Link, murmuration, Neil Gaiman, Simon Dale, Sophie Windsor Clive, starlings, Tales from Earthsea, The Last Mortician, The Weird, Tim Hall, Ursula K. Le Guin, Weird Fiction Review
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