Having promised ourselves a tour of every Borders within driving distance during the 50-70% off period of their closedown (sigh), kanja177 and I made an abbreviated visit to two of the biggest ones last night. (Stupid hurricane, spoiling our fun.) I envy kanja177 the ability to say, "I have X amount of money to spend and that's all" and stick to it. Me, I throw ( Read more... )

I'm hoping my subconscious is gearing up for another round of creativity (please, oh, please!) because for the past couple of nights I've been dreaming fanfiction. Yesterday evening, I was wandering through Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series (and am now rereading Behemoth, whee!); t'other night, the mental drive-in fired up ... Neon Genesis ( Read more... )

Sniggled from arielen. Well, this is kind of ... I dunno. I was hoping to be a bit more swashbuckling, but I guess at least I'm not a textbook.

You Are a Literary Fiction Book


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It's the end of the fiscal year and everyone's trying to max out their budget, which means that on the book truck full of new acquisitions for our fine arts department I have:

a) an early 16th-century Aldine Press edition of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo that's worth more than my house ( Read more... )

Sniggled from Making Light: Publishing insider explains how he finagled Diana Wynne Jones's backlist back into print in the wake of the initial Harry Potter boom. Makes for interesting reading, I think ...

Scott Westerfeld and his illustrator Keith Thompson have a wonderful art "reveal" this morning for their upcoming book Goliath. As Westerfeld tweeted yesterday, "Brains may explode." (Mine already exploded a few days ago due to virus, so I'm now immune and can merely enjoy.)

Diana Wynne Jones has passed away. I fell in love with her books in grade school and still read them now. I'll be looking forward to whatever she produces for that other library.

Scott Westerfeld, Behemoth (illustrated by Keith Thompson)Sequel to Leviathan. War has broken out among the Great Powers of Europe -- the Clanker empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary with their machines versus the Darwinist nations of Great Britain, France and Russia with their fabricated beasts. Caught in the middle on the British airship ( Read more... )

The gentleman on the bike next to mine is reading John D. Sinclair's translation of Dante's Purgatorio. Maybe this is the gym for me after all.

On an unrelated note, I have another story brewing at last, for fma_fic_contest's prompt "seamless." Go, muse, go!