June 3, 2017 at 9:24 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Family, Filipino Writers, Lists, postaday, Publishers, Relatives, short story collections, Traveling, Venice, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: AWP, Los Angeles, Mayor of the Roses, memories, Miami University Press, postaday, postaweek, teaching, UCLA Extension, Wordpress, writing conferences
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is FRIENDS.
Which is a very fun theme!
Three Cheers for UCLA Extension’s Writers Program! Love the people. Here they are, doing Spin the Wheel at the 2016 AWP Book Fair in Los Angeles.
Keith Tuma of Miami University Press, at the 2016 AWP Book Fair in Los Angeles
Self and Irene, Café Flor, San Marco Square, Venice: November, 2015
- Nutschell Ann Windsor, Program Administrator, UCLA Extension Writers Program (She writes, too!)
- Keith Tuma, Director of Miami University Press, which published self’s Mayor of the Roses, the first in their fiction series
- Amy Toland at last year’s AWP Book Fair in Los Angeles
- Irene Lacson, niece and travel buddy
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 22, 2017 at 10:30 pm (Artists and Writers, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Asian American Writers, AWP, inspiration, interviews, Literary Magazines, poetry, writing process
“I do think persona is helpful in however heavy or light the disguise, if only to announce to the reader that if my persona says or does something they don’t find agreeable, it’s just a character, not the person.”
— Aimee Nezhukumatathil, in her interview with Eric Farwell, The Writer’s Chronicle, September 2016
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January 4, 2017 at 5:14 pm (Links, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Asian American Writers, AWP, Events, fantasy, Juked.com, Literary Magazines, Readings, short story, Washington DC, writing conferences
Participating in a group reading for Quarterly West at Sixth Engine, a converted firehouse in Washington, DC. during the AWP Conference.
Date: 8 February 2017 (Details to follow), downtown Washington DC
Quarterly West Issue # 89 has self’s newest Dragon/Fire Lizard story, “First Causes.”
It’s a sequel to her “First Life,” published July 2015 in Juked.com
Stay tuned.
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November 6, 2016 at 4:10 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Publishers, Traveling, Writing)
Tags: AWP, Events, exhibits, London, Los Angeles, Miami University Press, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress, writing conferences
Embrace the creative potential of disorderly randomness.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
A Chihuly: Lobby of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
Below: the controlled chaos of the Annual AWP Book Fair. This year’s was in Los Angeles. Seated: Keith Tuma of Miami University Press.
There have been AWP conferences where self is so buzzed by being surrounded by so many authors and literary panels that she has gone as long as 48 hours with absolutely no sleep.
AWP Book Fair, Los Angeles, April 2016
Finally: self did a lot of lonely walking in Manhattan last December. The city never ceases to amaze. New York is a grrrreat city for insomniacs!
New York City: Night, Midtown, December 2015
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 27, 2016 at 2:21 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, postaday, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: AWP, fairy tales, Just published, Los Angeles, postaday, postaweek, Spanish writers, translation, writing conferences
All books are quests of one kind or another. To self, they represent explorations of new experiences.
New Edition of Don Quixote, at the AWP 2016 Bookfair in Los Angeles
From the Europa booth at the 2016 AWP Los Angeles Book Fair
from self’s own copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans, retold by Amy Ehrlich, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
This is how the fairy tale begins:
Far, far away, in a warm and pleasant land, there once lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter. The princes wore stars on their shirts and swords at their sides, and their sister, Elise, sat on a footstool made of glass. These children were happy from the time they woke in the morning until they went to their beds at night. They never imagined another life.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 19, 2016 at 7:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Links, postaday, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: AWP, Fridays, inspirations, Los Angeles, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress, writing conferences
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is RARE: Post a photo of something you regard as “scarce and singular.”
Here are some rare things:
Dedication from a novel by Irish writer Maeve Binchy:
To “dear good Gordon . . . such a supportive and kind person”: That degree of love and support and respect is indeed rare.
Here’s a one-woman press from Boston, MA: Kattywompus Press. It takes guts to run a press, anyone can tell you:
Independent Publisher, AWP Book Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center: March 2016
Finally, a must-see for book-lovers everywhere. It’s called The Last Bookstore, and it’s on S. Spring Street, downtown Los Angeles. Part of a vanishing breed. Their logo says it all: “What are you waiting for? We won’t be around forever.”
More Than a Bookstore: A Magic Trip
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 22, 2016 at 1:19 am (Books, Conversations, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: AWP, elections, Events, Hillary Clinton, humor, postaday, postaweek, summer, The Hunger Games, Wordpress, writing conferences, YA
For this week’s challenge, try to look past the big picture and take a more intimate approach . . . zoom in on details in unexpected places.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Today:
Interesting Adornments for a Mercedes Benz!
At the 2015 AWP Conference in Minneapolis, The Loft had a kind of raffle: You wrote the name of your favorite book and dropped it into a big tumbler. Then you picked out a card to see a book someone else had recommended. Self wrote: Suzanne Collins’ THE HUNGER GAMES Trilogy. The card she picked out had this book recommendation.
Just in time for the upcoming U.S.Presidential Elections, a book with a very rad picture of Hillary, doing a kind of Dirty Harry pose. ROFL!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 19, 2016 at 6:36 am (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, Lists, postaday, Publishers, Writing)
Tags: AWP, Bluestem, Cork, England, Ireland, literary awards, Literary Magazines, memories, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
First: Women Celebrate in Oxford, UK. Jenny Lewis raises a toast in Jericho Tavern, 2014 Saboteur Awards
Second: Women Celebrate in Cork, Ireland. Geraldine O’Toole rocks red in front of the Café Paradiso, Lancaster Quay, Cork.
Third: Women Celebrate in Minneapolis, 2015 AWP Book Fair. Charlotte Pence is the Poetry Editor of Bluestem. The journal published self’s dystopian future story, “The Freeze.”
She dated Michael Palin! She wrote a hit song for a UK Reebok commercial!
Ger in Front of Café Paradiso, Self’s Go-To Restaurant in Cork
Charlotte Pence, Poetry Editor of Bluestem. Her poetry collection, MANY SMALL FIRES, was just published by Europa Press.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 3, 2016 at 8:41 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Publishers, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: AWP, Calyx Press, Events, Hotel Amerika, Literary Magazines, Mayor of the Roses, science fiction, short pieces
Look here!
2016 AWP Bookfair, Los Angeles Convention Center
Lit Mag: Publishes only West Coast Writers, one of the first to publish her speculative fiction
Next year’s AWP Conference and Book Fair: Washington, DC.
You do not want to miss it. For sure.
Stay tuned.
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April 30, 2016 at 10:25 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Links, Movies, Personal Bookshelf, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers, Zack)
Tags: Asian American Writers, AWP, causes, Events, inspirations, Los Angeles, novel, postaday, postaweek, praise, Readings, Saturdays, Wordpress, writing conferences
“Depict something or someone you admire.”
— Krista, The Daily Post
In the last week of March and the opening days of April this year, self was in Los Angeles. First, to attend a reading of her good friend Zack Linmark at USC. His first novel, Rolling the R’s, a great, groundbreaking, kick-ass novel, turned 20, and USC celebrated that milestone by having him read with Jessica Hagedorn and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, two other groundbreakers.
Immediately following that reading was the annual AWP Conference, which is of course also accompanied by the most fabulous book fair in America. And at that book fair, self stopped briefly to chat with staffers at VIDA, a completely volunteer-run organization, which publishes statistics on how many women are published by which literary organs. And it’s eye-opening.
Finally, Wonder Woman. Just because. Watch for her movie. Emily! So proud of your daughter/director. The picture is a grainy still from the Batman vs. Superman movie, which self watched just so she could tell Emily in London: I saw Wonder Woman in costume on the big screen for the first time!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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