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Today we're thankful for many reasons, including classic animated shorts.
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For Cassidy MacNamara, Thanksgiving's no piece of piss—after all, throwing a bunch of fire elementals in one room incites brawls and torched curtains. [It sounds more like Thanksgiving is a piece of piss. Not that I'm familiar with the term, but I assume it means the same thing as piece of crap or piece of shit.] [Oops, a bit of research reveals it's British and means the same as piece of cake. Hey, at least cake, unlike piss, comes in pieces, you crazy Brits.] [Wait, do Brits even celebrate Thanksgiving? Additional research shows they don't, but these could be Americans in Britain or Brits in America, so I'll let it go.] However, this year air elementals crash their dinner, killing some of her own and kidnapping others. including her little sister. [The word "however" suggests that this year Thanksgiving is a piece of piss, when in fact it's still no piece of piss. What you want is something like: Thanksgiving's never been a piece of piss, but at least it's never been a piece of shit. Or rather, shite. Or: Cassidy didn't expect Thanksgiving to be a piece of piss—after all, putting a bunch of fire elementals into one room always incites brawls and torched curtains. But when air elementals crash their dinner, killing some of her own and kidnapping others, including her little sister, she declares it her second-worst Thanksgiving ever.] [Note that I changed "throwing" to "putting." "Throwing" was giving the wrong impression.] [By the way, "piece of piss" is a great tongue twister. Say it five times fast.]
With her aunts and uncles arguing among themselves and her drunk Ma cradling a bottle in the corner, [This is in the same room with the corpses of their relatives lying on the floor?] Cassidy, like always, has to take responsibility. Those bastard air elementals took her little sister, but she's going to get her back.
Problem numero uno though: fire elementals are restricted to the South. If she crosses the border, the elemental Council will send their extraction team after her. [Problem numero uno should be arranging for the Council's disposal team to get rid of the bodies in the dining room. Otherwise Sis will be coming home to a highly unpleasant scene.] [Are air elementals restricted to the North? If so, why didn't the extraction team deal with them? If not, how does Cassidy know her sister's been taken to the North?] If caught, not only will her little sister be gone for good, but Cassidy will be stripped of her powers. A fire elemental without fire is nothing. Even though all she's armed with is a couple of her crazy, but loyal cousins, her '69 Camaro and a hostage who won't shut up, [You forgot to include the ability to manipulate fire. When you have flamethrowers and your enemy has leaf blowers, I like your chances.] Cassidy will make sure her family comes home, no matter what the cost.
"When Fire Ignites" is a 90,000 word urban fantasy.
You'd think a society that has extraction teams to keep elementals in their own areas would also have authorities to deal with renegade air elementals who commit crimes.
Presumably the mix of mythological creatures, Thanksgiving, "piece of piss," "numero uno," is part of the book's charm, and not anachronism gone wild.
I like the voice and humor if the book is also funny, but it's unusual for a query in which the main plot development is that characters are murdered and kidnapped to stress the comical aspects. Is the plot more adventure/thriller or comedy?
The query is mostly setup. When her little sister is kidnapped by air elementals, Cassidy and two of her cousins head into the forbidden North on a rescue mission. Expand that into a three or four-sentence paragraph that includes the important stuff I left out, and you still have room to tell us what the plan is, what obstacles pop up, what the air elementals want with Little Sis.
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AlaskaRavenclaw said...I found this query incomprehensible, even when I tried rereading it without EE's blue comments. Try for less, er, voice and more clarity.
IMHO said..."A fire elemental without fire is ..." what? A human? A fairy? I'm really unclear on the characters and the setting (Alabama/Connecticut? South Pole/North pole?). Why did air elementals crash the party/kidnap the kid? Feels more like a madcap movie trailer than a query designed to hook an agent.
Veronica Rundell said...Jesus god. Please don't de a Brit trying to write 'Murrican. This ALWAYS falls flat. Because, as EE has stated, the colloquialisms simple do not translate. I don't care if the words are English--the sentiment is foreign. That being said, set your query aflame and start again.
Describe what the heck actually happens in the story. And be more specific than North v. south, k? If you are a dreaded Murrican (that's how my son calls the incompetent persons seemingly constantly featured on Fox News) you know that America is region-specific. And North-South is too vague to really gain a flavor of authenticity.
Good luck!
AlaskaRavenclaw said...The Brits talk about their North and South too, with the cultural assumptions more or less reversed AFAICT.
AlaskaRavenclaw said...
I'm going to try to synopt this story as I understand it from a 3rd reading of the query.
Cassidy McNamara is hosting Thanksgiving for her extended family of fire elementals when some air elementals show up. They kill several of Cassidy's family and kidnap her little sister.
The relatives don't fight back, they just argue and get drunk. So Cassidy goes off to look for her sister alone.
However, she's not allowed to leave the South. (I'd leave that out, since it clearly doesn't deter her. The next sentence contains an unclear antecedent... let's not worry about this. You'll have to rewrite from the ground up.)
She hops into a car with some relatives-- it turns out she wasn't the only one willing to pursue Sis. Off they go.
I would work on the fire elemental aspect if I were you. You don't say what it means. I'd think, for one thing, it would make one want to stay away from alchohol and Camaros. Also, give us some context. Who are air elementals and why are the fire elementals so powerless against them? Air makes fire stronger. Is this some kind of Hatfield/McCoy feud? What's at stake? If it's preserving Cassidy's family, can you make them sound less undesirable?
In other words, what is the actual challenge facing the protagonist?
Veronica Rundell said...EE and Alaska make concise work of the set-up, unfortunately I don't get a true sense of urgency from the author's query. It's heavy on the snark, light on the plot. Try re-balancing with a good dose of 'toning this down'.
Also, and perhaps this is me, but why the muscle car? I mean, the dang thing is 50 years old. Why is it so important to the story that it's in the query?
Also, no idea why anyone would host Cassidy's family for a Sunday dinner, let alone turkey day. They sound reprehensible, and TSTL.
Veronica Rundell said...That Alaska has read this query three times, author, should give you some sense of her kindness, and commitment to helping you rewrite this...
I hope you understand how unlikely it is that an agent will read it more than once. It has to be perfect. Work hard, revise. Let us see it again...
AlaskaRavenclaw said...Why thank you, Veronica. What a nice thing to say.
Anonymous said...Hey Alaska, many of us appreciate your decisive and insightful comments.
Evil Editor said...Actually, I think you meant divisive and incite-ful.
Hey, just kidding.
AlaskaRavenclaw said...Thanks, Anonymous.
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Heres a 2xA0 (8xA2) drawing I did really quickly (30 min) at Book Expo earlier this year.
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I hope you have a lovely day full of gratitude and good food. But if the kiddies get antsy - remember I have Thanksgiving-themed coloring pages. CLICK HERE or the image to download them for free!
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Tanita and I wish you all a wonderful holiday weekend full of book binges and marathon reading sessions. (I'm hoping to fit in a few myself!)I found this nifty Book Turkey here.Just a moment of gratitude, here--I could not be more grateful for all... Read the rest of this post
Once more, Hero Conventions are bringing their own brand of FREE COMIC & TOY MART to Edinburgh...
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During the mart, there will be a performance of the Ghostbusters tribute 'STILL Ready to Believe You' by Des O'Gorman at 1pm. This will be 100% FREE*, but you can feel free to provide a donation at the end of the show as the poor blighter hasn't eaten in weeks. :p
Also, after the show the legendary Marc Farrimond will be hosting 'The Challenge of the Kingpin' geeky pub-quiz. Entry to this will be FREE, and there will be some rather lovely prizes...
YES!! David "The British Manara" Gordon WILL be at the event with his Chang3lings dolls and MyExcess books including Cosmic Oddity which was reviewed here: http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/my-excess-dave-cosmic-oddity.html
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OK, books I have read recently that I have to review. (Not all in one day, although I read one yesterday and one today.)
I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata
Dangerous by Shannon Hale
The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis
Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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"Carl Sagan was prolific. He used to walk around with one of those tape recorders that had a strap and a microphone on a cord and record ideas when they came to him. Ideas just poured out of the guy. I love that image of him wandering around with this, recording his thoughts about this and that. I had many of [his] books to draw on, as well as television, radio, and print interviews. Mostly, I was looking for material that would capture the feeling that he left his audience with — that feeling of wonder and wanting to explore and find out more. "
Today over at Kirkus, I chat with author-illustrator Stephanie Roth Sisson, pictured above, about Star Stuff, her new picture book biography of Carl Sagan.
That link will be here soon, and next week I'll have some art from the book here at 7-Imp.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today is the 27th of November. For some of you, that means you have 27 ideas lined up like jewels on your desk. I have nothing to say to you. Keep doing whatever it is you've been doing. Never mess with what's working.
But some of you have only 17 ideas or 14 or [sigh] 9. Let me be frank. It is now time to panic.
Panic can be a great motivator. But there are two kinds of panic. Only one is going to be useful here. We want nothing to do with the kind of panic that says, "See, I knew I couldn't do this. I knew I wasn't the kind of person who could have thirty ideas." Stop. Immediately. No one wants to be around you when you are like that. Especially muses.
We are going for an entirely different kind of panic. We are going for elevated pulse, eyes wide open, "well let's try something completely new today because we have to get 15 ideas in the next 3 days and isn't that going to be crazy fun" kind of panic. We are going for a "get out of your comfort zone and go drink the world in until it pours out in ideas" kind of panic.
So, here are 5 ideas for creative panicking:
- Are you sitting down at your desk? Why? That B.I.C. thing can be taken to an extreme, you know. If the ideas are not showing up at your desk, why are you still there? Why aren't you out kayaking or dancing or sitting in a bubble bath? At the very least, you should be running through the halls yelling, "December is coming, December is coming." People will just think you're freaking out over holiday shopping so you'll totally get away with it. But really, you're signalling to your brain, "Today is not business as usual. Get out of your well worn little rut. We are going for a ride today."
- Are you putting yourself where you can hear rhythm? We've already talked about dancing but you could also find some kids to play jump rope with. Play a clapping and rhyming game with the kids at the bus stop. Or climb up a tree and pay attention for awhile. The world is made of rhythms. So are a lot of picture books.
- Quick, who is your favorite illustrator? Go outside and look at everything as if it were one of their illustrations. What would that look like? What things would that illustrator notice or create out of what you are seeing? Try not to let yourself have words during this exercise. Just visuals. Then come back inside and pretend an editor has just called to say, "Edward Gorey/Diane Goode/Lane Smith/Pamela Zagarenski just called. They'd like to illustrate one of your books." Write that book. Then pick another artist with a completely different sensibility and repeat.
- Wait, aren't you going somewhere today to eat pie? This is perfect. Crazy relatives, frazzled toddlers, small children meeting Aunt Cora's special jello for the first time. There will be stories there. Watch for them. Offer to entertain someone's two year old. Remember what being two was like. Take all the young cousins out in the backyard and help them build a snowfort or rake leaves or play tag. They will love you for it. And you will find a story.
And if you aren't meeting up with relatives for Thanksgiving, where are you going today? Because I'll bet there's a story there too.
- Look, the point is that panicking creatively is just about pulling out all the stops and flying at this task from some new angles. It's about playing. So quit acting like such a grownup. When was the last time you sat down with some colored paper and cut it into shapes just because it was cool paper and you had scissors? When was the last time you laid on your belly in the grass and watched a tiny world go by? Have you drawn on your walls lately?
Loosen up a little. Grin like you have a secret. Play. Panic (creatively.)
Mylisa Larsen has been telling stories for a long time. This has caused her to get gimlet-eyed looks from her parents, her siblings and, later, her own children when they felt that certain stories had been embellished beyond acceptable limits. She now writes children's books where her talents for hyperbole are actually rewarded.
She is the author of the picture books, Instructions for Bedtime (Katherine Tegen Books, January 2016) and If I Were A Kangaroo (Viking).
You can visit her online at MylisaLarsen.com.
Mylisa is giving away a picture book critique!
This prize will be given away at the conclusion of PiBoIdMo. You are eligible for this prize if:
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Good luck, everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving …. Panic!
I like any post that says panic is a good thing.
Thanks, Mylisa!
Dana Edwards.
Perhaps the most inspiring post we've had yet! Thank you so much. You've given us something to be truly thankful for… :-)
"Stop acting like a grown-up!" I'll do it, if you do it! Thanks for the awesome, panic-inspiring ideas!
Thanks for the great pep talk! Happy Thanksgiving!
At my Thanksgiving get together today of 50-something relatives, I will "fly at this task from some new angles." Better than eating too much turkey. Love your ideas!
Hey, Happy Thanksgiving to all! I'm just in a mild panic and can use these helpful suggestions. Grateful for PiBoIdMo today. Now, I'm going outside to play in the snow and get some IDEAS.
ANOTHER one to love! I am only four ideas from done with my 30 – but I KNOW I will find at least that many at Tgiving – if I only pay attention. Which I forget to do WAY too often. Panicking creatively!! Thanks!
Panicing! I've always said, I work best under pressure!
Oh, I am GREAT at panicking so this is the perfect post for me! Thanks!
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She finished the last round of high-dose chemo on Thanksgiving Day of 1997. We ate Boston Market turkey and stuffing in the hospital playroom while her meds finished running. There were two more years of low-dose chemo to go, but we expected to spend most of that period as out-patients. When we got home that night—home, where we hadn't spent more than ten days in a row since March—it was late, a cold, clear night, with as many stars as a New York City sky can muster. I remember thinking I couldn't imagine ever being more thankful for anything than I was to be carrying that little girl up the stairs to our apartment that night.
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This morning at 7-Imp, I'm doing something a little bit different. Matthew Winner, who founded and runs the Let's Get Busy podcast, is celebrating his 100th episode. He's been visiting a few blogs to talk about his work, and today he has a cup of cyber-coffee with me to answer some questions about the wonderful resource that his podcast has become.
Matthew is an elementary school librarian and also runs a blog called The Busy Librarian. Today we're going to focus, though, on his informative podcast. (Lucky me, I even got to visit in August.) Those of you who read my May interview this year with author-illustrator Dan Santat may remember this moment:
I've recently become addicted to Matthew Winner's Let's Get Busy podcast, where he interviews authors and illustrators in children's publishing. Everyone should check that podcast out. … I think in about a year, when everyone catches on, it will be one of the most important media sites in the children's publishing field.
So, here's Matthew. I thank him for visiting today and congratulate him on 100 episodes!
Jules: What have been some of your LGB highlights and greatest joys this year?
Matthew (pictured right): Seymour Simon told me he feels like a father figure to me and that he's proud of me. Brian Won called me "The Ira Glass of Kidlit, only cooler." A bunch of #KidLitArt pals invited me into their weekly Mario Kart 8 online tournaments. I'd say it's been a pretty spectacular year for me.
I feel like I could tell you something special about every single interview I've shared on the podcast thus far, but maybe the best way I can sum it up is to say that each interview brings with it something new. And there's always at least one special moment in each of the conversations that makes a memory with me and that I end up sharing with others. I'll give you an example: I recently interviewed Scott Campell (Episode 98) on his new picture book, Hug Machine. After a moment of gushing over his heartwarming story about a kid who is a champion for (and of) hugging, I told Scott that there was such a powerful sense of truth in his book's text, and I asked if he himself was a hug machine. Shortly after I received my first and only virtual hug. It's a moment that makes me smile so much and still it brings me back to his book. Near the end of the story there's this great spread where the boy, in essence, gives the reader a hug. And on that page, in no uncertain way, Scott is hugging every single one of his readers. It's awesome. And it's a moment of the podcast that I know I'll remember for a very long time.
Jules: Did talking to any of the many illustrators and author-illustrators you interviewed this year change your view of picture books in any remarkable ways?
Matthew: The work of authors and illustrators varies so much from person to person. We all know that. And yet I do find myself intrigued in hearing artists describe their process and how it's changed over time. Lauren Castillo (Episode 100) published two books this year as an author-illustrator and both show such master of craft in the way she balances well-tempered words with these beautiful watercolors. I'm talking, of course, about The Troublemaker and Nana in the City. Her process includes writing a much more text-heavy manuscript, then editing it down as she creates dummies and considers her illustrations. It's as if she's split herself in two to work out the perfect balance of text and art. That just kind of blows my mind.
I had a similar experience when I spoke with Nathan Hale (Episode 61), known most notably for his Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales graphic novel series. Nathan writes a full manuscript for every graphic novel before ever drawing a single sketch for the work. I mean, that's amazing! He's creating hundreds of drawings for his story with limited text, being that he tells much of his story through the art. And yet all of that is playing around up in his head and is captured, to oversimply his process, in what comes down to stage directions and art notes. Had you asked me prior to starting Let's Get Busy about the way in which graphic novelists work, I never in a million years would have guessed that so many begin with a manuscript.
Then there's the way that Dan Santat (Episode 41) envisioned our imaginary friends as extensions of ourselves, taking various forms that mirror our own interests. I mean, REALLY! Would you have guessed that Beekle resembles a blank sheet of paper onto which brilliant ideas can be captured?
Or that Bob Shea (Episode 23) designs each of his characters from a basic jellybean shape so that his readers can recreate his characters more easily?! My students and I spent an entire week drawing characters out of jellybean shapes when I learned that. First we started with Bob's characters, and then we created ones of our own!
Or that Raina Telgemeier (Episode 39) tries to build a hook into the last panel of each of her pages in order to get the reader to turn the page and stay engaged in the story? No wonder none of us can put her books down!
Or that Chris Haughton has actually moved from creating his illustrations using a digital collage technique to working with cut and torn paper to create actual collage art for his newest picture book, Shh! We Have a Plan!
If anything, I would say that hosting Let's Get Busy has made me an even bigger fan of picture books. I marvel at the process and the technique that goes into creating these works of art, and I think about how very lucky I am to get to peek into these artists studios and learn more about the inspiration and journey that brought them to the finished product.
Wait … did I answer your question? I hope I did.
It's all remarkable to me.
Jules: If the sky were the limit, what's one thing you wish you could do at your podcast, if anything?
Matthew: I would love for a whole bunch of us kidlit fans and advocates and creators to build a network together of podcasts and YouTube channels and blogs and news outlets. I know that would be a huge undertaking, but I think having one large collective with a single entry site to access all of this truly awesome content would be incredible. I listen to this great podcast called The Nerdist (see my response to the next question for more back story). But The Nerdist has grown over the past several years into a network of podcasts, YouTube shows, articles and more really cool stuff, and the idea grew from connecting fans of the podcast with other content they might enjoy. That's where I'd love to see Let's Get Busy connect and grow. I'd love to find a more efficient way of connecting my listening audience with other podcasts and resources they might love and also to get Let's Get Busy to the ears of people who might not know about it yet.
I love being a part of Nerdy Book Club and all of the amazing connections I've made through that awesome collective, but it just wants me to help connect others in this kidlit community even more.
Jules: Can you talk a bit about why you started the podcast?
Matthew: I blame Travis Jonker, author of the 100 Scope Notes blog, for actually getting Let's Get Busy started.
One of my favorite things about attending library and reading conferences is getting to meet authors and illustrators and cartoonists. But something special happens when you get to hang out with those same people beyond the exhibition halls or artists alleys. Chances are that, if you sit down with anyone you find remotely interesting and have an earnest conversation with them for ten or more minutes, you've found yourself. And when you speak with authors and illustrators and cartoonists, the stories you start to hear often inform the stories these creative types create. It's not always so direct, but it's always something I find really fascinating.
So when I was telling Travis Jonker this, as we were hanging out with other kidlit pals at a hotel bar in Chicago at a recent ALA conference, I related these conversations to one of my favorite podcasts, The Nerdist, in which the conversations with guests from all over the comedy, music, and movie scenes are informal and are given the time to breathe and get really interesting. Why not create something similar for the kidlit world where we'd get to hear these sincere interviews with authors and illustrators and then get to know and love their work even more so in the process?
Travis said in so many words, "Sounds great! I would listen to that! When are you going to start?"
Those words were the permission I needed to start Let's Get Busy, a friend's encouragement and validation of an idea. The rest is sort of history. I started interviewing my friends in the library and publishing worlds. After each interview I would ask my guest to make a recommendation of whom I should talk to next. From there, the connections have grown far and wide but have always maintained a sense of family and closeness. That's a quality I hope the podcast never loses.
Jules: What's your favorite thing about podcasting? What drives you to keep doing it?
Matthew: I learn something new with each person that I talk to. And I get to talk to people I never expected this small town school librarian to brush elbows with. And I get to be a fan of my guests' works without having to filter or hide it. And it's maybe the most fun thing I've ever been involved with. Okay… that's an awful lot of sentences ending with articles, but it's all to say that the thing that drives me to keep podcasting is that every conversation is like a gift that I've been given that I get to love and cherish and then share with someone new. Each guest, whether it's someone whose work I know well or if it's a person who just happens to be best mates with a recent guest, every single guest has been a pure joy to chat with. I'm glad I get to be the guy behind the mic on this one. And I'm grateful for the couple of people who are listening.
Jules: What's one thing most people don't know about you?
Matthew: I'm a super slow reader. That's probably why I don't have more middle grade or YA authors on the podcast. It's so hard for me to read through their books in time for the interview and it makes me feel really, really bad. I'll talk to anyone and I'm really, really good at starting books. Ha!
Oh! And for a non-booky thing, I'm teaching myself to play banjo. I inherited a banjo from my wife's grandfather, and I try to play a little bit every day. It's been almost a year now, and I'm still struggling with my finger-picking, but I figure by the time I have a picture book contract of my own, I maybe—just maybe—will be able to write some sort of awesome song for the book trailer.
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OK, you two, this was just fantastic! Is it just me, or does every kidlit passionate get choked up while reading stuff like this. I'm glowing with joy that has to be emanating through my skin
I've listened to so many podcasts and still have many to catch up on. I will! Thank you for even more heartwarming and interesting info on one of my favorite people.
Today's Thanksgiving and this is one of the things I'm grateful for Thanks to both of you for something so enjoyable!
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Washington, D.C. Travel Tips for Families!
I've been a United States President fanatic since first grade, so it was only natural that my mom started bringing me to Washington, D.C. during summer vacations. I've been there three times, and here are some tips I've learned.
Tip #1: Everything is awesome, especially the D.C. Metro.
The Metro is an underground subway, and it is a good way to get around D.C. It's safe, clean, and easy to use. Within a few days I learned all the lines to take. Some places don't have a Metro stop nearby, so be ready to walk a little. It will be worth it because you are probably going somewhere awesome.
Tip #2: Get more out of your Capitol building tour.
You can book a tour through the Capitol building website or through your congressional representative. I've done both, and the tour from my Congressperson's office was way better. I got to see more stuff, such as the Brumidi Corridors and the spot where George Washington laid the original cornerstone for the Capitol. It was also a smaller group, so there was more time for questions. Remember to pick up your passes to see a session of the Senate or House of Representatives. If you get lucky, you might be able to see a debate in action. I saw a minor debate and it was totally worth the line.
Tip #3: National Postal Museum: Mail yourself to a great time!
I was really surprised by this museum. I thought it would be boring, but it was extremely fun. It was interesting to see how mail delivery developed from pony carts to modern trucks and airplanes. When I was there I saw a Titanic and Hindenburg exhibit on how these accidents disrupted the mail system. I also learned about a mail dog named Owney.
Tip #4: Make a visit to Woodrow Wilson's home.
This is not the first thing you think of when you go to D.C. (unless your parents are Princeton University alumni). You get to see Woodrow Wilson's whole house, from the kitchen to his room. An especially interesting thing is the elevator he used to get around, since he had a wheelchair at the end of his life.
These places are just an introduction to D.C. There is a truckload full of more sites, memorials, branches of government, and museums to visit. Have fun!
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No idea. I have images cramming out my brain but I even think about picking up a pencil to draw -panic. This is total burn out. Can't even read comics.
When will The Green Skies appear? meh
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There are many ways that visual art might point the way to creating interest and satisfaction in literary constructs, and it has been a topic in several past postings. In this post let's explore how some creative energies that seem evident in a particular work of visual art might prove useful in drawing out a main character's own emotional space, and in a most natural manner.
I've chosen an example from my recent YA novel, "Leaving Major Tela," about a young woman, Caitlin, reared by a strict, army officer mom, and given an opportunity to find her independence while having to temporarily live with her divorced dad:
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I've been wanting to talk about this book for ages, and Scholastic UK have finally tweeted a photo of the cover! So yes, look out for this book next spring!
Here's a look into my studio, when I was using a dip pen and ink to trace the pencil sketch onto the watercolour paper.
And here's the day I brought in the final cover artwork! Met Team Dinosaur Police! That's designer Rebecca Essilifie and editor Pauliina Malinen. We've put together a great dinosaur romp for you; we hope you'll like it.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I thought I would share the top ten library books I'm thankful to have read this past year. If you love the library, you might want to create a top ten list of your own! I'd love to read your list if you do make one!
The Night Gardener. Jonathan Auxier. 2014. Abrams. 350 pages. [Source: Library]
I love and adore Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener. Love and adore is probably even an understatement. I read this one twice this year. I have a review here at Becky's Book Reviews and a review at Operation Actually Read Bible.
Here's how this one begins:
The calendar said early March, but the smell in the air said late October. A crisp sun shone over Cellar Hollow, melting the final bits of ice from the bare trees. Steam rose from the soil like a phantom, carrying with it a whisper of autumn smoke that had been lying dormant in the frosty underground. Squinting through the trees, you could just make out the winding path that ran from the village all the way to the woods in the south. People seldom traveled in that direction, but on this March-morning-that-felt-like-October, a horse and cart rattled down the road. It was a fish cart with a broken back wheel and no fish. Riding atop the bench were two children, a girl and a boy, both with striking red hair. The girl was named Molly, and the boy, her brother, was Kip. And they were riding to their deaths. This, at least, was what Molly had been told by no fewer than a dozen people as they traveled from farm to farm in search of the Windsor estate.
2. Goodnight, Mr. Tom. Michelle Magorian. 1981. HarperCollins. 320 pages. [Source: Library]
I checked out the book and the movie from the library. Both are highly recommended!!!
3. Unbroken. Laura Hillenbrand. 2010. Random House. 473 pages. [Source: Library]
This memoir is so intense and compelling!!!
Bridge to Haven. Francine Rivers. 2014. Tyndale House. 468 pages. [Source: Library]
Historical fiction set in the 1950s. Would love to see this as a movie!!!
5. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights. Steve Sheinkin. 2014. Roaring Brook. 208 pages. [Source: Library]
Love this nonfiction title!
6. Poem Depot: Aisles of Smiles. Douglas Florian. 2014. Penguin. 160 pages. [Source: Library]
Without a doubt my favorite poetry book of the year!!!
7. Frozen in Time. Mitchell Zuckoff. 2013. Harper. 391 pages. [Source: Library]
Yes, it's more nonfiction! And, yes, it's set during World War II.
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson. 2013. Simon & Schuster. 240 pages. [Source: Library]
More World War II. But it's so good. A Holocaust book for the audience of Number the Stars perhaps.
9. The Midnight Library. Kazuno Kohara. 2014. Roaring Brook. 32 pages. [Source: Library]
There is something oh-so-magical about this picture book. It just captured my heart.
10. A Snicker of Magic. Natalie Lloyd. 2014. Scholastic. 320 pages. [Source: Library]
It wasn't easy choosing the final book. Hence why there will be honorable mentions!
Honorable Mentions:
Bo at Ballard Creek. Kirkpatrick Hill. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. 2013. Henry Holt. 288 pages. [Source: Library]
Free to Fall. Lauren Miller. 2014. HarperCollins. 480 pages. [Source: Library]
Kiss of Deception. (The Remnant Chronicles #1) Mary E. Pearson. 2014. Henry Holt. 489 pages. [Source: Library]
Absolutely Almost. Lisa Graff. 2014. Penguin. 304 pages [Source: Library]
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Set in the late 1940s, Vernon is recovering from a previous case when he is called upon to investigate mystery deaths in London dockland.
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"Glassblowing is an animal unto itself, it requires skill, knowledge, physical strength and respect."
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This splendid fairytale is of German origin. An impoverished glassblower, named Albert, lives with his beloved wife Sophia and their two children, Klas and Klara. He creates beautiful glass bowls and vases that are unique and extraordinary. Unfortunately they are so impractical that no one buys from him forcing his wife to work in the fields to supplement their living needs.
He packs up his wears each year and takes his family to a local fair to hopefully sell his goods. It is at the fair that Flutter Mildweather comes into their lives. She is a weaver of tapestries, tells people's fortunes and is involved with witchcraft. She owns a one-eyed raven named Wise Wit who can only see good in the world. They live in isolation away from the rest of the villagers. Klas and Klara are spotted by a very wealthy Lord and Lady of All Wishes Town. The couple have everything at their disposal but they do not have any children. The Lord takes it upon himself to kidnap the children to give to his lovely, unhappy wife, hoping that the children will make her happy once again.
Klaus and Klara find themselves prisoners in the Lord's mansion surrounded by the River of Forgotten Memories. Their only playmates are reflections of themselves in the mirrors that line the grand hallways. A controlling and evil Nanny is hired for the children and their quality of life diminishes even more. What is to be done? Their parents don't know their whereabouts and they themselves cannot escape. Is this to be their destiny?
Just as their very lives are at risk, Flutter Mildweather, and her raven companion, arrive to rescue them from their hopeless existence. The book is full of vivid, strange characters and makes you think about the difference between what you want and what you really need.
This book is reprinted in a beautiful edition with the original white-on-black etched illustrations. This mystical, allegorical story won the 1974 Hans Christian Anderson Award. I highly recommend this book.
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'Ancient Greece' with its associations of city states, democratic governance, and iconic material culture, can no longer be envisaged as a uniform geographical or historical entity. The Classical city-states of Crete differed considerably in culture, history and governance from those of central Greece. In this book, Saro Wallace reaches back into Crete's prehistory, covering the latest Bronze Age through the Archaic periods, to find out why. It emphasizes the roles of landscape, external contacts, social identity construction and historical consciousness in producing this difference, bringing together the wealth of new archaeological evidence available from the island with a variety of ancient text sources to produce a vivid and up-to-date picture of this momentous period in Crete's history.
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Saro Wallace is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Reading. A recipient of a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and regular grants from the British Academy and Institute for Aegean Prehistory, she has published many papers and reviews in the field of Bronze to Iron Age Greece. She currently directs excavations at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age mountaintop site of Karfi, Crete.
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Part I. Crete Between East and West, State Collapse, and State Emergence: 1. Introduction; 2. Method and structure; 3. Text perspectives; 4. Chronology, terminology, and dating methods; 5. The Late Bronze Age Cretan landscape and its use; 6. The broader framework: structures of landscape use by the LBA-EIA transition; Part II. 'Positive' Collapse and Its Effects, c.1200-1000 BC: The Restructuring of Space and Place: 7. Approaches to studying collapse - explanation and characterization; 8. The changing use of space: introduction; 9. Settlement pattern in Crete; 10. Subsistence in the new settlement environment; 11. Settlement change outside Crete: islands and peninsulas; 12. Mainland central Greece: settlement priorities during and after collapse; 13. Constructing post-collapse society: inside Cretan settlements, c.1200-1000 BC; 14. Ceremonial and ritual practice within settlements; 15. Beyond settlements: the changing cultural landscape; 16. Mortuary space and practice in Crete and other areas; 17. The structure of collapse in Crete; Part III. After the Fall: Interactions with Other Mediterranean Regions in the Twelfth to Eighth Centuries BC: 18. Introduction; 19. Long-distance contacts before and after the collapse horizon, c.1300-1000 BC; 20. The social role of exotica; 21. Exchange structures inside post-collapse Crete; 22. Lift-off: east Mediterranean trade and the central Aegean from the tenth century; 23. Nothing to declare? - Crete in the tenth through eighth centuries; 24. Modes and routes of exchange within Crete in the later EIA; 25. Crete's membership in the 'orientalising' and colonial worlds from the seventh century; Part IV. 'Proto-poleis'? - The Growth of Social Complexity in Crete from the Tenth through the Seventh Centuries: 26. Main sources of evidence discussed; 27. Settlement patterns (1): the nucleation phenomenon; 28. Settlement patterns (2): small sites and small-group identity; 29. Subsistence and land-use in the expanding polities; 30. Inside settlements; 31. The mortuary record; 32. The ritual landscape and the construction of political identity; 33. The early Archaic horizon: correlates of state development and growth in the archaeological record; 34. The polis as place and as concept in Crete; 35. The value of 'classic' state formation models to PG-early Archaic Crete, viewed in its Mediterranean context; Part V. Constructing Difference: The History, Structure, and Context of Cretan States in the Later Archaic through Classical Periods: 36. Introduction; 37. Problems in generalization and comparison; 38. The central Greek polis structure over time: tensions between tyranny/kingship and participative governance; 39. Special aspects of the Archaic to Classical Cretan pols; 40. Cretan identities in historical perspective; 41. Serfdom and slavery in the construction of Late Archaic to Classical society: comparisons between Crete and other Aegean areas; 42. The public feasting tradition and its political significance in Crete and other areas; 43. A final comparison: democracy and its alternatives in the Aegean world.


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Got some new ones from my ride in Milton today
Just a shot from our ride today. Pretty much the whole day was open farmlands. This was just the only picture I took.
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A couple of favourites from my month in the French Alps last September.
Col de Galibier (nth)
Col de l'Iseran (sth)
Cormet de Roselend (sth)
Col Agnel
Mont Ventoux
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Here are a couple I snapped recently while riding.
I may be fat but I'm slow enough to make up for it.
From yesterday's ride...
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Icyclist here - thanks to Tulex, my photo of an open road started this thread, more than two years ago.
Here's another photograph I made a couple of weeks ago, in Yosemite, as I looped around Yosemite Valley on my bike.
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Dutch corner - Alpe D'Huez. Rare to get a shot of this road without other traffic. That it was 39 degrees celcius that afternoon may have had something to do with it... It was my first day in France so I wanted to open the ledger; should have waited till the cool of the next morning.
Looking back at the last kilometres of the Col de Sarenne (one of the three ways to ride to the Alpe D'Huez ski resort)
North side of the Col de l'Iseran
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Loop in the Vercors - just west of Grenoble
Start of the road to Presles
Near the top of the climb
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Looking further up the Gorges du Nan.
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10 Gallon Slice of the Reef
Giving a reef tank an attempt for a fourth time. I figured I'd give it another go since the tank will cost me nothing out of pocket besides the living organisms.
10 gallon tank equipment:
- Koralia 1 (400gph)
- CPR BakPak w/MJ 1200 (295gph)
- Hydor Pico Evo-Mag 180 (180gph) [maybe]
- 4x24w T5HO (might run only 2 or 3 bulbs)
- pair of Picasso clowns or some other nifty clowns
- 6 blue/orange legged hermits
- 3 nassarius snails
- 6 cerith snails
- 3 astrea snails
- 1 turbo snail
- 1 scarlet skunk shrimp
- soft coral (primarily zoas and ricordias)
- lps (acans and anything else I fancy)
Current FTS:
Plans for the week:
- clean up tank
- repaint stand
- get base rock
- get live rock
- cycle
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SW is doable in a 10 gallon. However, that stocklist is not.
I would stick with some of the smallest of the gobies and not add the turbo snail or more than one hermit crabIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Not sure what's so wrong with the stock list... I mean, the clowns could be pushing it. I don't see an issue with the turbo. I honestly thought my CUC was a little light.
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The CUC is fine, but I wouldn't have clowns in a 10g, you could do 2 clown gobies, or a firefish or a goby pistol shrimp pair. Oh amd don't mess up I will document this for my tank, no pressure :).
No, that CUC is not fine. Hermit crabs need a lot to eat. You won't have enough to support 5 of them in a 10 gallon tank unless you spot feed each of them. Even then, that will no guarantee a peacefully co-existence. They will end up fighting over food and territory until there is only one crab left. This is why I suggested to start with only one of them (orange legged ones would be better). Same thing for the turbo snail. It will get to be 2 to 3 inches in size once fully grown and would likley have a hard time moving around in a 10 gallon tank with live rock. They also need a lot to eat which I can not see you providing naturally in a 10 gallon tank. Unless you start spot feeding him, he will not survive for every long.
To put your listed CUC plan in prospective, I have one hermit crab and ~10 astra snails in my 120 gallon tank with 150 to 160 lbs of live rock in it. They have been keeping that tank clean for about a year now. This is less of a CUC than you were planning for your 10 gallon tank
Clown fish really need at least a 29 gallon tank at the minimum. Even the smallest ones get to be 3 inches (females a little bigger). A 10 gallon is not even close to what they will need.
Sorry if I may be coming off a little strong here, but you current stocking plan will not end well for you in a 10 gallon tank.If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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have to agree with Cliff.
Also, another point is - crabs and the like will walk all over your corals and steal their food. Corals can handle the walking, tho you may get annoyed seeing them closed so often, but they really will steal ALL the food from the corals, even if you spot feed, the shrimp/crabs will scamper right over.
Once I realised what hermits were like, I was quite mean to them. I didn't buy any more to keep up their numbers AND I never provided them bigger shells to grown into, they had to make do with snail shells. I had a 50gal tank with ten hermits to start, with almost 100 lbs of lr, and they were down to two before I was happy with their balance in the tank.
You might add your planned number of them to clean up a diatom problem as you start the tank, but I would return the bulk of them once your tank stabilises.20gal long planted community
General rule for a SW tank is less is more. Don't overstock. Cliff is spot on. You may not see anything right away if the inhabitants are small you have to project the timeline into the future and when they get bigger.Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
I've had my live rock and saltwater going for a few days now. Plans are to repaint my stand tonight, clean up the tank, and get it set up dry. Then whenever I have time later this week, rock and water will be transferred from the buckets to the tank.
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TROY – The town of Troy will hold its annual spring cleanup April 19 and 20. This is a chance for all property owners to clean up before letters are sent from the town attorney enforcing an ordinance on property maintenance.
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PERRY COUNTY – The Perry County Relay For Life will hold two events to raise funds for the annual walk.
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FERDINAND – The Ferdinand Merchants and Chamber of Commerce are organizing the annual Ferdinand town-wide yard sale for March 30 and 31.
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PERRY COUNTY – The Oaks Senior Center will sponsor a 3-day, 2-night show trip to Nashville June 18 through June 20.
The trip will be offered for $309 per person based on a double occupancy hotel room and will include motorcoach transportation, two nights lodging, two breakfast and two dinners meals, a guided tour of Nashville, admission to the Country Music Hall of Fame, a visit to Opry Mills, a show at the Grand Ole Opry, a show at Nashville Night-life Dinner Theater and more. For a single occupancy hotel room, the trip will cost $369.
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Restaurant review | Black Point serves satisfying seafood under Hyde Park flagThursday, November 27, 2014 06:22 AM
What are you giving thanks for today? My list is longer than I might have thought. Somewhere on it is living in a city with a seemingly endless stream of good new restaurants. Enter Black Point. A seafood-centric prototype from the Hyde Park Group, Black Point replaces Sushi Rock on the Short North Cap.
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