Diversity in YA is holding a contest, where you can win 53 diverse middle-grade and young adult novels. The challenge is to diversify your reading (by picking up books with people of color or GBLT as main characters) and writing an essay about it by September 1st.

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Here's Natalie C. Parker on How Writing a Good Hook is like Running a Good Con, in ( Read more... )

I didn't pay much attention when I heard a new Wonder Woman TV show was in production. She's never been a character I've been drawn to., though I did briefly look into the "controversy" of her costume -- both the changes in the comics as well as in the show. Apparently a lot of die-hard fans were rather upset by the color changes and by the wearing ( Read more... )

I caught the two-hour premiere of Falling Skies last night. The premise is a pretty standard alien invasion scenario. The aliens come and destroy most of earth for unknown nefarious purposes, killing all the adults they find and kidnapping some of the kids. The story starts six months after the initial invasion and centers on Tom Mason, a history ( Read more... )

I enjoy playing with what I suppose should be considered my own internal fan fiction. Typically this involves taking a character of my own invention and trying to fit them into the world of Buffy or Stargate SG-1 or Fringe, or whatever I'm currently obsessed with at the time. I never write any of these inventions down. Rather it's a sort of mental ( Read more... )

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And it has been a hard week. In fact, it's been a hard month. The process of getting the October issue out has been ... intense is the nice word. For being one of the smallest issues I've ever worked on, it's been an incredible pain in the ass. The biggest problem was that our layout diva broke her leg at the top of the hip, so she was out for the ( Read more... )

1. The Sanctuary season 3 premiere on Friday was exactly what I hoped it would be. It rounded out the Kali storyline rather nicely adn opened up some mysteries for the larger story arcs that are supposed to enter this season. I can't wait for next week's episode. I just wish they weren't on Fridays damnit. (Fortunatelyit seems to be on demand with ( Read more... )

I've just learned that while I was away on my holiday in Germany, the first episode of Fringe aired. I've missed it!

*shock*

*sorrow*

(but no regret, because lets be honest, I was in Germany)

The root of my frustration comes from the fact that I don't have a working computer where I'm house sitting, so I won't be able to watch it before seeing ( Read more... )

All summer it has seemed to take too long for fall to come, bringing with it such joys as falling leaves (okay, not so much in Cali), cooler weather (it's been damn cold and now just getting hot. huh?), and the third season of SanctuaryEvery once in a while in my internet wanderings, I would google season three in the hopes that some new ( Read more... )