market listing
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2009
Anthology Clockwork Phoenix 3 (“new tales of beauty and strangeness”) is open for submissions from October 1st to November 15th. Guidelines here.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
I say this on the DGLM blog and couldn’t resist wordling my blog (click the image to see it bigger):
I’m pleased to note the prominence of story and writing. Not sure about the wombat, though (wombat stew, wombat stew! crunchy munchy wombat stew!).
Who else wants to play?
eureka!
Posted in inspiration, short stories on Sep 23rd, 2009
Last night, I started to think of a story for an upcoming anthology I want to submit to. It wasn’t a new idea, but it snuck into my head with a first paragraph, a hard-edged character, and emotions–emotions tight-dammed behind walls of concrete, emotions desolate and sweeping like winds on the tundra, emotions as despairing [...]
o, the fickleness of me
Posted in reading on Sep 22nd, 2009
Have you ever been in this situation?
You get a book from the library, a nice fat book, in a genre you don’t normally read, but the premise is intriguing.
You start reading it one evening and it hooks you so much you read for four hours. You read it in snatches over the next couple of [...]
the first draft: slow and steady
Posted in kai, writing process on Sep 19th, 2009
Definitely slow, not as steady as I would like. I’m 18.5 K into the story, solidly in the part where all the political intrigue comes into play. I have at least one cool scene coming up which is going to throw my MC into a tailspin and send her running for her life. Is it [...]
Picture Books: Exploring Down Under
Posted in kids at play, picture books on Sep 16th, 2009
(Artwork inspired by aboriginal dot paintings by Miss M and Sir I)
Wombat Stew by Marcia K. Vaughan and Pamela Lofts: One day, a very clever dingo catches a wombat and sets about making wombat stew, with a little help from the other animals. Fear not for the wombat, though! My kids loved this one [...]
ooh, shiny
Posted in kids at play on Sep 14th, 2009
This open-ended and process-oriented project was a huge hit with my older two. I mixed up equal parts of white glue and water and gave each child a piece of aluminum foil and lots of cut-up tissue paper. The kids spread the glue all over the foil (shiny side up!) and stuck on the tissue [...]
the first draft: journey into uncharted territory
Posted in kai, writing process on Sep 13th, 2009
I re-started work on Kai’s Book a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the premise, by the by:
A cursed runaway princess, despised by her people, returns from across worlds to save the homeland she fled after committing murder.
The “princess” part is a bit misleading since your typical princess doesn’t exist in this world. It’s more Dark [...]
coral reef
Posted in kids at play on Sep 12th, 2009
This is the coral reef the kids and I made a few weeks ago. The coral is made from salt dough, which we shaped (check out the brain coral I made. It’s the one that, funnily enough, looks like a brain), dried and painted. Then we set about creating inhabitants for our reef. The cupcake [...]
Sir I. and the new definition of luck
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2009
Heard today:
“Mommy, Baron is lucky because he bited a book and got thrown in jail, but he escaped from jail and that’s why he’s lucky!”
Personally, I think it’s pretty darned UNlucky to get thrown into jail for biting a book (hmm, I wonder what would happen if someone broke into a museum and took a [...]