I bought an e-reader specifically so I could read this book. Seriously, I spent about $215, plus the other twenty bucks for the books, so I could read THE BIG BOOST. This is perhaps an indication of how much I wanted to read it. I must have read Daniel Keys Moran’s THE LAST DANCER the year it came out, 1993. That means I’ve been waiting pretty close to two decades to read the next book in the series. I re-read the first three books in the series and then forbade…
Book Race
I have not been doing spectacularly well with the Book Race. I started out with one thing, it being my Plan, but then faced the reality that I would get paid if I did the other thing, which is the proposal for the 8th (8th, my god) Walker Papers, so I started on that, and immediately screwed up. Like by page fifteen. I never do that. So I spent about four days ignoring it in the hopes it would magically fix itself, which it didn’t. On Day Three I told…
fairy tales redux
Maybe four sets of four stories? GLASS, BEAST, TOWER, FLIGHT (?)? With a lineup something like: GLASS: Snow White, Cinderella, The Red Shoes, The Glass Mountain BEAST: Snow White & Rose Red, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, The Wounded Lion TOWER: Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, The Princess of the Tower FLIGHT: The Children of Lir, The Nightingale, The Wild Swans, The White Dove There are So Many themes you could choose. SNOW. THRICE. WICKED, as I said, but that gets repetitive and I don’t think I’m clever enough to be…
…damn, you guys are cool.
Seriously, some of the ideas of what kind of Cinderella story I would tell just *rock*. I ought to give you a list of the fairy tales I’m thinking of doing for the lil short story collection, and see what twists /you/ think I’m going to put on them, and send a copy of the collection to the people whose ideas I steal, uh, am inspired by. :) Actually, while I’m definitely going to do that at some point (not this week), I’ve got this idea in my head to…
OMG SQUEE!
OH MY GOD. I don’t want to say who until there’s actual art produced for fear of jinxing it, but the likely cover artist for the Old Races collection “Baba Yaga’s Daughter” (due out in 2012 from Subterranean Press) is the artist I have ALWAYS wanted to see illustrate the Old Races! SQUEEEEEEE! Finished reading A PRINCESS OF MARS last night. That was a pretty much thoroughly enjoyable book, even if I’m bemused at some of the stylistic differences between today and a hundred years ago (o.O). A lot of…