GAH! What a hectic, awesome week it has been.

C.S.E. Cooney had her book release party for Jack of the Hills on Thursday at Top Shelf Books in Palatine. Coon
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Check out the book trailer for C.S.E. Cooney's upcoming novella, The Big Bah-Ha.

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"It is a post-apocalyptic katabasis story, complete with kiddie gangs, slingshot battles, strange clowns, Tall Ones, and one very dead (very brave) child protagonist."

Due out at the end of the month from Drollerie Press.

Once upon last Friday,

I worked.

Then I got naked for one Ms. C.S.E. Cooney. More specifically I practiced my first ever burlesque act. She gave good feedback. Here is what I have discovered about burlesque, goddamn it's hard to do good. Yes, I knew this already, but for the man on the tree it is a whole new LANGUAGE to learn. Theater face. Body ( Read more... )

Hello people. I miss my unholy bed. I've been busy. Sleep was something that I apparently used to do. Hmph. Which reminds me, the last time I did catch a cup of shut-eye, my brain created an excellent character. Let's just say I have a story about a gorgeous, one-legged burlesque dancer in the 1940s to write.

Thursday night I went to Reggie's ( Read more... )

What if instead of working at the library as it is...I worked at a library that was on an airship? And the ship had Victorian trimmings amidst cold steel and chrome? Well, this is what went through my head yesterday and as such I decided to dress accordingly. Tweed highpockets were had, brass button down boots quick stepped, a beige scarf flapped ( Read more... )

Saturday, 8 p.m.:

I sock footed it across an empty dojo, climbed up its backstairs and went to see some loft theater. Ms. C.S.E. Cooney performed in Geopolis Theater's evening of solo performance, Flying Solo. She nervously and yet menacingly sharpened a knife while talking of the threats and fears of city living...and rabbits. Brilliant! Gorgeous ( Read more... )

ASTOUNDING!

MESMERIZING!

WONDER-INDUCING!

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Don't even tell me that you wouldn't fork over greenbacks for this:


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