![]() |
You are viewing Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more | Explore LJ: Life Entertainment Music Culture News & Politics Technology |
![]() | |||
|
...are you working on a novel? What is your process? What's your schedule? I'll show you mine if you show me yours!
|
|||
![]() | |
|
Wildside Press used the write up about Tanith Lee I did in Weird Tales as a part of the promotion of the new collection, Hunting The Shadows.
"Gothic poetess, comic young-adult author, robust adventure-fantasy novelist: Tanith Lee has more writing personas than Sybil. But in her short fiction, all these aspects come gloriously together. Such stories as 'Antonius Bequeathed' or 'The Persecution Machine,' with their death-defying mixture of prose poetry, genre trope reversals and ominous wit, could be written by no one else." |
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
a glorious mash-up of horror, fantasy, madness, dreams, and poetic prose--one of those "beautiful mess" books. kudos for the 3-D characters, expertly rendered the subculture of rock/goth/punk/hardcore, the believable gay relationships and the cultural/racial diversity of the cast. |
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
The novel project has begun in earnest. I have years of research under my belt, a plot and structure, an outline...now, it's time to write it. The book is an expansion of my folklore meets modern life tropes, with a dash a fantasy and a dash of horror. Right now, the title is SUMMONING A MUSE. That might change. I'm going to write it for me, of course, but it will be an interesting sell--the cast is all African American and inner city at that. And you don't see many books that mix fantasy with that kind of cast. There's a tiny bit of autobiography through in the book for good measure, as well... |
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
Richard Lablonte had this this say about Best Gay Stories: Think of this annual series, now in year two, as a starter kit for readers of gay writing, fiction and otherwise, who might not otherwise have access to the sources from which Berman culled 18 stories. Some are erotic, some are literary, some are romantic, some dabble with fantasy, some tackle coming out – a perennial of queer storytelling. There aren’t any duds, but highlights include Sam J. Miller’s on-target tale about racial insensitivity, “Haunting Your House”; Trebor Healey’s elegiac account of a young man memorializing his lover’s death; Christopher Schmidt’s trilogy of short-shorts observing queer life, “Three Scenes”; Craig Laurance Gidney’s recasting of French poet and libertine Arthur Rimbaud, “Strange Alphabets; and David Levithan’s charming account of a teen’s babysitting adventure and his encounter with “Starbucks Boy.” Anthologies promising the “Best” are entirely subjective; for every story included there are certainly three or four just as good that don’t make the cut. But Berman – founder and publisher of Lethe Press – has a good eye for queer prose, as this quality compilation attests. |
|
![]() | |
|
Birch and Barley, located on 14th Street in DC, has an extensive beer list. I sampled a crisp German light beer and a French cider. For dinner I had seared scallops with pinenut risotto for an appetizer with a pizza with port-infused figs, prosciutto, and Gorgonzola for a main. |
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
I am sick. Scratchy voice. Slight fever. Stuffy nose. If only I could pick up lovers as easily as I pick up sinus infections. |
|
![]() | |
|
Icarus 3 is about to be released, with stories by Robert Joseph Levy, Rod Santos and Tanith Lee (writing as gay French-Egyptian alter ego Judas Garbah) |
|
![]() | |
|
|
![]() | |
|
|
