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Posted by Justine at 14:42, March 2nd, 2008 under Unicorns, Writing goals & milestones, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 11:45, December 9th, 2007 under Unicorns, Vainglory, Writing life, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 12:44, April 14th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Excuses, Praising, Ranting, Scott's books, Travelling, Unicorns, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
John Hinde was one of my favourite film critics of all time. He was a wonderfully warm and funny man. He could give charmingly negative reviews to sucky films without a hint of rancour, reviews that made you want to see the crappy film just to see what he was talking about. I always wanted to meet him. When he died I cried.
Now he's made me cry again by setting up an
extraordinary literary prize in his wife's memory. It's the "Barbara Jefferis Award for the best Australian novel that empowers the status of females or depicts them in a positive light." The award goes to an Australian writer, but isn't restricted by setting or genre, ...
Posted by Justine at 10:23, April 3rd, 2007 under Reading, Sydney/Australia, Unicorns, Zombies |
What is it with you people?
I tell you what an abomination in the sight of the Lord unicorns are and how much I love love love zombies and what do you do? You send me an endless stream of unicorn-related stuff. Gah!
Quit it already! No more!
Now zombie related links I'm all for. Fire away. Share your zombie love with me.
But the next person to so much as type or say the u-word anywhere near me? Well, that's a paddlin'.
I hope I have made myself clear.
Posted by Justine at 22:35, March 14th, 2007 under Ranting, Unicorns, Zombies |
What have
I started? Arguments about the relative merits of
zombies and
unicorns rage across the intramanets. And on each thread someone suggests the zombie-unicorn hybrid. Great minds think alike? Or fools seldom differ?
I was greatly distressed that lovely friends of mine like
Holly Black,
Cecil Castellucci,
Meg McCarron and
Literaticat have fallen pray to the false glittery charms of unicorns despite the fact that being virgin fascists unicorns would have nothing to do with them. I guess it falls into the whole desiring-what-you-can't-have camp. Perhaps to resolve our issues Holly and I should collaborate on a Zombies vesus Unicorns novel? I will write the zombies and she can have the unicorns. Though ...
Posted by Justine at 12:54, February 18th, 2007 under Bloggery, Book challenges, New York City/USA, Praising, Ranting, State of the World, Unicorns, Words & Language, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
I am so proud that my
serious, soul-baring post about the trials and tribulations of blurbs wound up turning into a
debate about whether unicorns or zombies are better. Sometimes I just love my genre people.
This response to
Scalzi and me on blurbing also made me smile. I am, indeed, very proud of this sentence:
"How do you tell someone you shot their dog cause you really hate unicorns?"
The writer of that post suggests that it would be amusing to just blurb everything and if you don't like a book give it an ambiguous blurb of the "I cannot praise this book too highly" variety. Clearly they meant it in jest, but it reminded me that ...
Posted by Justine at 0:26, February 16th, 2007 under Bloggery, Publishing business, Unicorns, Writing life, Zombies |
John Scalzi has a post up explaining
his blurb policy. He even kindly explains what blurbs are.
I think his policy is so spot on that I've adopted it (slightly amended) as my own:
1. Yes, I am happy to look at books and if I love them I will blurb them.
I adore reading my peers' work and getting to read them ahead of publication is particularly exciting. It makes me feel like I'm really part of the Young Adult publishing world with my little ole finger right on the pulse. Not to mention that being asked for a blurb is an honour. ((Though who gets asked is a mystery to me, seeing as how I get asked to ...
Posted by Justine at 9:02, February 15th, 2007 under Bloggery, Publishing business, Reading, Unicorns, Writing life, Zombies |
