Sweet things from Guest Blogger John B Rosenman [writing]
October 19, 2009
This month, welcome writer John B Rosenman to the blog. He's a science fiction writer, and an interesting read. Try this out, and after you're done with his post, don't forget to visit Fraser Sherman's place (How Sweet It Is!http://frasersherman.wordpress.com/)
Thank you, thank you, and I’d especially like to express my appreciation to the following people:
* Deena Fisher of Drollerie Press for editing my novel, Alien Dreams, and also doing the
cover art and design on the book;
* Jody Wallace of NovelBooks, Inc. and Michele Dowdey of Mundania Press for editing
successive editions of my novel, Beyond Those Distant Stars;
* Antonia Pearce of Blade Publishing for editing my novel, A Senseless Act of Beauty.
Before I go any further, perhaps I should explain what this is all about. No, I’m not
accepting any coveted awards. What we on the Drollerie Press Blog Tour are doing this month, is recognize an unofficial holiday that is growing in popularity. The Sweetest Day falls on the third Saturday of October and “is described by Retail Confectioners International as an ‘occasion which offers all of...
Yes, I've done some: Got the outline to the place where I stopped writing a couple years ago... You see, though I love microbiology, and have done some of the Amateur Study on it, I am by no means an expert in the field. So it makes me nervous... You know the thing that keeps me going at it? A year or so ago, I read <i>Vitals</i> by Greg Bear, my absolute favorite sf author... partially because he writes about microbiology stuff too! And well, I wrote him fan mail, something I only ever do if I'm insanely fanatic about the person's writing. So he and Tamora Pierce are the only ones who've ever received it from me... (*G*<lj user = "jimhines">, I'm not counting you because I know where you live -- in here!)
Well, so anyway I wrote him fanmail, and -- gasp -- got a reply! I'd told him that reading his book got me inspired to work on the bac book I had in the hopper because I had run into a dry spell with it... he actually said he was looking forward to seeing it in the stores someday! Ohhh, gasp...
It's fall, and I'm just starting to get into "writing mode", that tingle that says I'll be doing a lot of writing soon but I don't have the "what" of it just yet. Meantime I'm starting on DnD Kritter... anyone who might be on DNDOG, look me up there as Lina, I don't look like I'm doing much there because I'm in the Tower of the Mage Newby doing catch-up after several years of non-play.
Speaking of catch-up, I forgot to mention the upcoming drollerie writers' chat( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/drollerie) this Sunday the 27th at 4pm! Anyone interested can go, see what we're up to, and talk about -- well, as Joely Richardson mentioned on her blog*G* anything from Muppets to aliens (i'm paraphrasing)
Anyway, I have a ritual to attend to, and some Tolkien to read, and a world to put into a form the DNDOG people can work with...
Hi guys... Well, my post is up at Meredith Holmes' site. This month I'm pleased to welcome Heather Ingemar to my blog, where I hope she'll feel ok:)
Jess
Drollerie Press Authors’ Blog Tour Post: Music
September 2009
By Heather S. Ingemar
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As many of you probably know by virtue of having followed me to this blog tour location, I write gothic fiction. My trade is words, and I make my habits around the sounds of our language. Like most authors, you assume, I probably began writing early, always knew I was ‘meant to be’ a writer, have troves and troves of work just waiting to be published, etcetera, etcetera…
While words have always held a fascination for me, initially, my trade was music. I was a professional musician for over nine years, and at the time I went to college, words weren’t even an option I’d considered. I was a musician. Was always going to be a musician. I ran from class to class, studying theory and pedagogy, jazz and classical, taking private lessons and playing in ensembles of varying size.
Then, after a chance conference with an English comp professor – and...
The short news about this, guys, is that the Kritter world is going to get somewhat bigger. I've gone into the why of it over on LiveJournal, but yeah: basically, an Admin over at DnDOnline asked me whether I'd be willing to let people in to play in Kritter.
So after taking a deep breath, to prevent my eyes from popping out of my head and all that in amazement, I basically gave him the HELL, YEAH!
*G* Like, are you kidding??
I have no trouble with fan fiction -- not that anyone writes Kritter fanfic; it isn't THAT popular, which is why I was so surprised -- and so I also had no trouble with the idea of someone willing to play there. Uhh, yeah, you can come into my sandbox!
I didn't know anyone wanted to, you see.
Make no mistake, I've made it clear that Kritte is my own creation, and want to just get that credit from them -- other than that, as long as I can keep my creations to play with in my own way, I'll certainly do this. And in return, I've gotten assurance that yes, that's what'd happen. So I'm good. Well, you guys...
I'd like you to give a welcome to this month's drollerie guest, Angela Korra'ti! Stay tuned...
Jess
For this month on the Drollerie Press Blog Tour, the topic is "summer". We all have been writing on various aspects of the season: what role it plays in our various stories, or how it may influence our writing. For my own part, I'd like to give you all a glimpse of the summer of 1989, the toughest summer that a young Warder-to-be, Christopher MacSimidh, had faced to date in his entire life--and which would stay with him up until the events of _Faerie Blood_.
Thanks for reading, all!
Anna
Christopher MacSimidh, Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 1989
The height of summer should have been a thing of glory. July sunshine slanted off the buildings of downtown Winnipeg, gilding them all in light, and countless tiny fragments of radiance glimmered along the surface of the Assiniboine River. Christopher saw none of it. Even tempered by the breeze off the river, the sun's heat bore down upon his head, in league with his sour mood for all of its brilliance. His feet hurt in their old shoes after hours of walking the docks in the...
Been writing more and more at helium.com, which is good; trying for $25 at least by the end of the month which will get that to me by the month after. The good thing is that now when they do contests, they do contests for the creative writers there too!
So, this month, I'm working on their creative writing short story contest. So far doing pretty well, if I say so -- I even snuck a Kritter story in, heh heh... and there's one or two characters I've used for stories today that I'm pretty sure I'll use again somewhere.
At least I'm putting the current state of insomnia to good use!
So this month, dear readers, it's time to welcome Cindy Speer, writer extraordinaire -- author of the very good "Chocoltier's Wife" -- to the blog! She's written about fathers in honor of father's day this month, and I hope you all enjoy reading it.
Jess
Fathers are tricky things.
The most prominent father character that I have ever written about is Zorovin.When we meet him, we meet the king of the North Frost Dragons.A few years ago he sent his son to the “other side of the world”, the world where the things and people of magic do not exist.He makes his way to this world to find his son, and because dragons do not exist in our world, he is forced to become a man.The way dragons think and feel and perceive is very different from the way that humans do, and it’s something he’s not comfortable with.But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love his son:
<i>As Zorovin looked up at the sky, he was struck by how much he missed his son. He remembered TorVanith’s birth. He had wrapped his body...
In order to help separate out the writing I do fiction-wise and the writing I do solely for helium.com (which is also a lot of creative writing), I've created a "zone" there. It's kind of like a website, for those of you who don't know. Figured I'd put my ducks in order:) Check it out:
Oooh, I'm very excited! StereoOpticon is just about ready, I hear, and hence the really pretty addition to my "welcome" page:)
Meanwhile, after the health scare this past month, I've begun settling into my new brain (literally). So now I'm working on a whole different schedule, with a few things remaining the same:
Mondays - WIP
Tuesdays - WIP: helium
Wednesdays: EDIT: anything and everything (at the moment that includes beta reading for two people and editing for my mother, as well as Critters stuff)
Thursdays: alternating library and museum ("museum" could be the Ecotarium or the Aquarium down in Mystic, or a performance at Mechanics Hall)
Fridays: SUBDAY/WIP
I have found that I'm much better at the days where I'm doing specific stuff like subday or edit day. Sigh. Actual writing is a hell of a lot harder than it was! That is so frustrating -- but never fear, I'm not going to let that stop me.
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