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Magpie Monday
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 →
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently, for this my fiftieth Magpie Monday post: ♦ This image by Jeremy Dower makes me happy. Based in Melbourne, Dower uses Photoshop to create his digital 2D paintings, and his … Continue reading →
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Tagged 'Salem's Lot, A Sketch of the Past, Adam Leipzig, Alexandra Seidel, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, aMAZEme, Andrew Neal, Annalee Newitz, Aqueduct Press, Batgirl, Batwoman, Ben Towle, Best Books for Writers, Birds and Birthdays, Blue Moon, blurbs, book promotion, card illusions, Catherynne M. Valente, Catwoman, Chris Claremont, Christopher Barzak, Chuck Wendig, Data Never Sleeps (infographic), Dave McKean, David Mohan, Days of Future Past, Deathless, Doctor Strange, Domo, Dorothea Tanning, Douglas Coupland, Dr. Doom, formatting, genre, Gina Rosati, gravity hills, Gualter Pupo, Huntress, immortality, Jabberwocky, Jeremy Dower, John Byrne, José Luis Borges, Just MyType, Kaa, Kendall Evans, Kickstarter, Kinbote, Koschei the Deathless, Krissy Brady, Kurt Barlow, Leah Palmer Preiss, Lee Pegler, Leonora Carrington, Madame Xanadu, Marcos Saboya, Mary Marvel, Marya Morevna, Mike Scott, Mr. Fox, Mur Lafferty, nasal hallucinations, Neil Gaiman, Nicole M. Taylor, Night Shade Books, No Return, Nora Ephron, Pale Fire, Paul Tobin, Penelope Trunk, Poets & Writers, Queen, Rachel Summers, Remedios Varo, Robin, Rudyard Kipling, Samantha Henderson, Sentinels, Simon Garfield, Smoke and Mirrors, Stephen King, Subterranean Press, Superman, Superman vs. Wonder Woman, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Ancient One, the art of the remake, The Cairn in Slater Woods, The Jungle Book, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Periodic Table of Typefaces, The Phantom Stranger, The Super Team Family Blog, The White Road, Thomas Allen, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Where the Wonder Women Are, Who Wants to Live Forever, Wonder Woman, writing (query letters), X-Men, X-Men: First Class, Zachary Jernigan
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The summer solstice (the longest day of the year) was last week, and in celebration Irene Gallo rounded up a collection of paintings her artist friends “thought best represented … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Moore, AlphaBooks, Andy Hull, Angelina Jolie, arsenic, Art Spiegelman, Austria Solar, Ben Towle, book cover art, book promotion, Bookfession, BookRiot, Christoffer Relander, Chuck Wendig, colors (women), Daniel Clowes, Disney, dolphin, Dungeons & Dragons, editors, Eeyore, Elizabeth Spann Craig, fairy-tale photography, family trees, fantasy, fantasy (writing), Futurama (title sequence), gas masks, Gérard Dubois, Housekeeping, Irene Gallo, Janice Hardy, Jasper Fforde, Kirsty Mitchell, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leni Zumas, library system, love (addiction), Maleficent, Marilynne Robinson, multiple-exposure portraits, N.K. Jemison, Neil Gaiman, novel (writing), octopus, Once Upon a Blog, peppermints, Pytor, reading speed, scared to death, setting (as character), summer, summer solstice, Sutured Infection, The Eyre Affair, The Rules of Magic, The Simpsons, The Solar Annual Report 2011, The Storyteller, The Woman Who Died a Lot, Theodora Goss, Thomas Allen, Thursday Next, Ursula K. Le Guin, What Was That Book?, world building (short stories)
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ What poems have you been reading lately? The fourth and fifth poems in Tor.com’s series in honor of NPM are “What the Dragon Said: A Love Story” by Catherynne … Continue reading →
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Tagged Astronomical, Book Mania!, book nooks, Book People Unite, Buttercup, Cameron Cook, Carl Sagan, Catherynne M. Valente, Château de Groussay, Chuck Wendig, Cosmos, Dale Cooper, damn good cherry pie, Death Comes to Me Again a Girl, Dorianne Laux, Jane Austen Among the Women, Jin Kazama, Jo Walton, Kyle Thompson, Matt Switliski, Michael Paulus, Mishka Henner, Naomi Bardoff, National Poetry Month, Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, SFCB, Sheung Yee Shing, skeletal studies of cartoon characters, story lengths, Tekken, The Powerpuff Girls, The Rejection Generator Project, Thomas Allen, transmedia storytelling, Twin Peaks, Wallace Yovetich, What the Dragon Said: A Love Story, Which Fictional Character Shares Your Birthday?, Wondermark
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