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Magpie Monday

Posted on 17 December 2012 by Robert

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future—the timelessness of the rocks and the hills—all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Carol, A Natural History of Dragons (excerpt) by Marie Brennan, A Winter Night's Tale (1867) by Daniel Maclise, Abigail's Song (Silence Is All You Know), Alison Moyet, Am I Free to Go? by Kathryn Cramer, Amy Winfrey, Andrew Wyeth, author photos, Batman: The Animated Series, Better Book Titles, book cleaning, Bookshelf Porn, bookshops (second-hand), Brad Hill, Bree Odgen, Cameron Cook, Cathy Day, Charles M. Schulz, cheese, Christmas trees, Chuck Wendig, Cinderella, Cindy LIttlefield, Corinne May, Coventry Carol, Daily Science Fiction, Dan Wilbur, Daniel Maclise, David Tennant, dinner party (death of), diphallia, Doctor Mid-Nite, Doctor Who, Eclipse Online, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Enya, Erin Morgenstern, film trailers, flax-golden tales, Futurama, Gabriel's Message, Gail Carriger, Gangnam Style (video), genitals, ghost stories (Victorian), gift-giving, gingerbread houses, Grab the Holiday Cheer by Erin Morgenstern, Haunted Mansion (Disneyland), Hawthorne Effect, headless portraits (19th-century), Headstone in Your Pocket by Paul Tremblay, Henry Cavill, Hogwarts, homosexuality, ice buildings, In the Bleak Midwinter, Invader Zim, Invisible Men by Christopher Barzak, Jack Skellington, John Kenn Mortensen, Karolina Dean, Kate Beaton, Katherine Jenkins, Kimberly Turner, Kirsty Stonell Walker, Making Fiends, Man of Steel, Mary Robinette Kowal, Matt Smith, Michael Shannon, Minas Tirith, mistletoe, Moon Knight, Nadav Nachmany, NASA's Johnson Space Center (videos), Neil Gaiman, Nico Minoru, novella, Oriel Window, PEN World Voices Festival, Peppermint Pig, poinsettia, Rachelle Gardner, Randall Munroe, Samurai Jew: The Eighth Night, Sandy Claws, Scott Bakal, Seashells by Lavie Tidhar, Share Your Shelf, St. Basil's Cathedral, Stanislawa P, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Sting, Sutured Infe, tails (human), Tansy Rayner Roberts, The 12 Days of Christmas, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The House of the Seven Gables, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Little Helper by Kat Otis, The Merger by Michael Adam Robson, The Moth, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Refugee by Meg Everingham, The Runaways, The Super Team Family Blog, Theodore Dalrymple, Tim Callahan, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Twelve Days of Fast Fiction, web-spinning, webcomics, Weird Fiction Review, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why (poem), wheat, Where the Wonder Women Are, Why Can't Reindeer Fly by Lee Barnett, Will Ludwigsen, winter clothing, winter is coming (winter is here), wrapping paper, writing (novellas), xkcd | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 5 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ A couple weeks ago, I ran across a re-posted link on mental floss about Graun, Italy’s most famous drowned town, and I was struck both by the story itself … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Handful of Glass a Sky without Stars by Damien Walters Grintalis, Air New Zealand, Alexander Korzer-Robinson, AlphaBooks, American Libraries, Bag End (miniature), Beautiful Stills from Beautiful Films, beautiful words, Ben Towle, Birds and Birthdays, blood pressure tests, book art, bookshe, bookshelves, Brian K. Vaughan, Calvin & Hobbes, Cameron Cook, Christopher Barzak, Chuck Wendig, collage, Daily Science Fiction, Dance in the Graveyard by Delta Rae, Daredevil, David Malki!, Death Proof, Delta Rae, DJ Faroff, Don't Look Down by Anatoly Belilovsky, Douglas Adams, Dragon Baby, Dreadknight, drowned cities, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Everything About Secret Bookcase Doors, Ex Machina, flax-golden tales, Gabe Ostley, Grant Snider, Graun, Hand Fixing Hand by Shane Willis, heavy rain (international idioms), IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes by Jonathan Keogh, Iron Baby, Isaac Asimov, Jabberwocky, James Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates, Leah Palmer Preiss, Legends of the Joystick by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham, libraries (amazing), Mary Robinette Kowal, Nils Cordes, No Country for Old Men, OMNI magazine, Open Road Media, Over There by Dany G. Zuwen, Patrick Boivin, Philip Pullman, robotics (three laws), Russell Hinson, secret doors, secret-passage bookshelves, Shame, short films, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, StashVault, Susumu Must Fold by Tony Pi, The Amber Spyglass, The Dead, The Hobbit (film), The Man Who Wasn't There, The Number Two Rule by Lesley L. Smith, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Super Team Family Blog, The Thin Red Line, Theodora Goss, Thom Dunn, Tom Gauld, Twitter, Unexpected Aftermath of a School Bus Accident by Erin Morgenstern, Warren Ellis, Weird Fiction Review, Wondermark, writing "rules", writing (novellas), Xaphania, Xaxisian Giant Robot, Ys | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 8 October 2012 by Robert

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailers to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” ~Thomas Wolfe Here are … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, Alabaster, All Hallow's Read, allergies, AlphaBooks, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, animation, Apex Magazine, Banned Books Week, bees, Ben Towle, Blitzen Trapper, Blood Oranges by K.C. Shaw, Bookshelf Porn, Bruce Boxleitner, Cabin in the Woods, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cameron Cook, Cape Breton, Catherynne M. Valente, chapters in novels (writing), Chet Phillips, Christopher Blake, Clarkesworlde Magazine, Conjunctions by Neil Gaiman, Crimson Fox, Daily Science Fiction, Dancy Flammarion, Daniel Radcliffe, Darkness by Lord Byron, Darwyn Cooke, David Malki!, DC Women Kicking Ass, Dexter (cupcakes), Documentation Centre at the Library and Archives of the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Centren in Madrid, Dodger (excerpt) by Terry Pratchett, Enchanted Conversation, England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss, Fall of the House of Usher, film trailers, Finland, flax-golden tales, flip food in a pan like a chef, forensics, gender identity, Gerri Ryan, Grant Snider, Gregory L. Ulmer, Hades' Pitch by Rita Dove, Hans Christian Andersen, Harper and the Flood and the Ghost by Michael Ramstead, historical fiction, HIV, honey, Horns, horror films, Introverts, io9, Jason Statham, Jeremy Messersmith, Joe Hill, Kate Beaton, Kenneth Grahame, Kill Kat 1 by Andrew Bell, King of Marbury by Andrew Smith, Kitty Pryde, Krissy Brady, Lantern City, Last by Rich Larson, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, Leah Palmer Preiss, Little Star (excerpt) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Lois Lane, Lyria by Miah Sonnel, Manhattan (neighborhoods), Mark Lanegan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Medusa by Patricia Smith, Michael Ramstead, monsters (European), monsters (South American), monsters (Victorian), Mr. Toad, My Mask Humanity by D. Thomas Minton, My Morning Jacket, Mystek, Nina Paley, No Harm in Tears by Lissa Sloan, NYU Press (library), Oldboy, Park Chan-wook, Parker series, pommedauphine, Promethea, psychopaths, punctuation marks (little-known), Radio Free Other, Raylene Rankin, Rebekka Karijord, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), sentence length, Sita Sings the Blues, steampunk (definitions of), Steampunk Week 2012, Stoker, Straitened Circumstances, Superman, Sutured Infection, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Commonplace Book by Jacob Clifton, The Dead by Mina Loy, The Descent, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (excerpt) by Catherynne M. Valente, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The Kalevala, The Talking Fountain by Diana Părpăriţă, The Thing, The Wind in the Willows, This Land Is Mine by Nina Paley, Thomas Wolfe, Threshold by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Thumbelina, Tim Callahan, Tim Hanley, TJ Dempsey, Tor.com, Watchdragon by Erin Morgenstern, Weaving Dreams by Mary Robinette Kowal, Where the Wonder Women Are, Winnie-the-Pooh, Wondermark | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 27 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Prior to seeing the image below on Terri Windling’s blog, I’d never heard of Kelly Louise Judd before. How is that possible? Her work is exquisite and reminds me … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged "Tequila" Yuen, AlphaBooks, Andrew Wheeler, animation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beautiful Evidence, Ben Towl, Bill and Ted, Birds and Birthdays, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Brian Azzarello, China Miéville, Chris Bird, Christopher Barzak, Cloudburst by Thomas Allen, cosplay, costumes, cremation, Dana Scully, Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Darren Criss, Davinder Brar, dolls, Edward Scissorhands, Endymion by Roz Kaveney, Espresso Book Machine, film trailers, Fire, Fox Mulder, free indirect discourse, Harry Potter, Joe Hill, John Byrne, Justice League, Justine Larbalestier, Kelly Louise Judd, Kingdom Come, know what you write, Leonora Carrington, magic realism, magic systems, magical-realist films, Marc Basile, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Downs (The Craft), Nancy Drew, Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Neil Gaiman, Perched by Kelly Louise Judd, poetry (found), Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky, Remedios Varo, Roz Kaveney, Rufus, school lunch, Song of the Sea, spontaneous combustion, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Steve McQueen, Stray Books by Grant Snider, stress and genes, Superman, Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston, Swan Bones Theater, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Terri Windling-Gayton, Th Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Corinthian, The League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons 1996, The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra Portugal, The Sandman, The Secret of Kells, The Watchmaker's Wife by Lydia S. Gray, Thomas Allen, Tom Gauld, Under the Tree by Tania Hershman, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (villains), writing (process), Zach Morris (sociopath) | 2 Comments

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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