guys, guys, vonda mcintyre commented on my blog. i mean, it was on judy’s post and everything, but VONDA MCINTYRE commented on my blog! *quietly dies of squee* The Stockholm blog is getting a lot of good commentary, and over the next week or so I have some hope of bringing stuff up out of comments for wider discussion. Thank you guys all for participating. This has been a lot of fun!
St Coleman’s Cathedral overlooks Cobh in a most impressive manner. This is one of probably six or so pictures I’ve taken of it that I like quite a lot. This post, incidentally, marks 4 months of weekday posts of Kitsnaps. It’s doing what I hoped it would make me do, which is go through older photos and organize them to at least some degree, as well as helping to encourage me to get out and take a few more pictures (admittedly mostly at the zoo). Sometimes it’s Monday morning before…
By reader request, I’m posting Judith’s entire Escaping Stockholm essay as one post, too, for ease of linking and perhaps ease of discussion. I shall, however, put it all behind a cut tag straight off, in order to not re-flood the friends’ list. :) If you wish to break it out and read each section individually, here you go: Part One | Part Two | Part Three Otherwise, onward!
Introducing the third and final part of author Judith Tarr’s inspired rant on the changes in the publishing industry, and the expectations we writers have come to live with and accept. Escape from Stockholm: An Epic Publishing SagaFind Judith Tarr on LiveJournal | on Twitter | & at Book View Cafe Part One | Part Two This is no longer the only game in town. Oh, she’s acknowledging it when she says she can’t deal with it, but she’s not thinking about what it really means. Or how she can…
So when my friend Emily came over, my friend Kate took us on a truly magnificent lecture tour of Kinsale and surrounds. I took roughly six billion pictures and have posted nearly none of them. This is Charles Fort in Kinsale, which has a rich and wonderful history that you should really get Kate to tell you, but one bit of it is that they finished building it on low ground at exactly the same time moveable cannons that could shoot a lot farther were developed, and so its wonderful…