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The Dark, Newfoundland, and blowing up my barracks
It's not often you get to see your former home blown up.
But seeing this video inspired me to write a story, and that story is live at The Dark magazine right now:
Welcome to ArgentiaIt's about ghosts, bad decisions, environmental destruction, tragedies, and the unique history of Argentia ( Read more... ) -
Malindo Lo: On Self-Rejection
Here's a valuable post from Malinda Lo in response to writings by Rose Lemberg and Nisi Shawl on the topic of self-rejection: definitely worth reading here at the start of a new year, when all of our writing and reading promises (or at least *my* writing and reading promises) are still shiny new from the holidays.
"We live in a world chock full ( Read more... ) -
Introduction
Welcome! I'm the author of Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, which won a Lambda Literary Award, was a Booklist Editor's Choice for Teen Readers, and is an American Library Association "Over the Rainbow" book. I also write the award-winning Fisher Key adventure books for GLBTQ teens (Mystery of the Tempest, The Secret of Othello, and The ( Read more... ) -
Some updates
Hello, end of summer 2014! Over at www.sandramcdonald.com I've been busy adding projects and publications, and here's some of my favorites-- Annie Wu is on sale for September, Ettie Ruiz is in pre-order, and Lea Boone will be out for Valentine's Day. Annie's cover is done and cover 2 and 3 are in final proofing stages.
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Year in Review: My Short Fiction
I had 5 new short stories printed in 2013, and one reprint. All of them are stories I enjoyed writing and seem to have gone over well, but I can't be sure because I don't read reviews.
"The Stars Beneath Our Feet" (co-written by Steve Covey) appeared in the YA anthology Futuredaze. This was particularly fun to write because of our kick-ass teen ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday to my lesbian Nancy Drew book
Happy book birthday to The Missing Juliet, book 3 in my series for GLBTQ and straight teens and allies. I had an enormous amount of fun writing this --
- Key West!
- Hollywood film shoot!
- Science fiction film satire!
- Teenage girl crushes and first love!
- Boy actors in love!
- A kidnapping!
- A transgender sidekick!
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The accidental turntable - my growing record collection.
In the big move from Boston in 2006, I got rid of many albums but kept some faves - the soundtrack to The Empire Strikes Back, Prince's Purple Rain, Styx, Disney songs from the 1960's and 70's. These were recently unearthed from the bottom of a closet. Rather than throw them out, I bought the cheapest player I could get from Amazon using shopping ( Read more... ) -
Awesome picture
This is one of my favorite pictures grabbed from twitter this week. The ISS against a daytime moon.
Ridiculously inspiring.
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90 in 90, or how it's going
NASA threw me off track, as did end-of-term busyness and Mom's medical stuff and just being swamped.
Summer reading goal: 90 short stories in 90 days and tweet about them.
@sandramcdonald tracking so far: 37 stories in 48 days ( Read more... ) -
July and NASA oh my!
July has been one of those months that slips through your fingers like sand - sometimes sparkly sand, sometimes gritty sand, sometimes sand that gets under your fingernails and irritates the soft flesh no matter how hard you dig at it ( Read more... )