So finally life is back to normal, at least for the most part. I have three things I wanted to blog about, so I decided to smoosh(sorry to use such technical verbiage) them all into one blog. Which I will now refer to as the Triblogosuperior or Iblogosup for short.
Item # 1
Brandon Sanderson is super cool. As many of you may know I am a big Sanderson fan and I highly recommend his weekly podcast
Writing Excuses. But this item doesn’t really have anything to do with my would be writing career. This post has to do with my real job, as a children’s librarian at the public library.
This semester we started a junior high book club. The kids picked Mr. Sanderson’s YA book, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, from a list of nearly forty books. I contacted the author’s of all five books the kids picked to read this year, to see if I could purchase signed book marks, or a signed copy of the book to give away as a prize. I have not heard back from the other four authors, but Mr. Sanderson assistant emailed me back right away and sent a signed poster for each of the kids for free!
That is so awesome and so something I did not expect an NY Times best seller to have the time to do. I have always liked his books but now Brandon Sanderson’s name has joined Joe Montana, JRR Tolkien, Tom Osborne(I am from Nebraska after all), and Stan Lee on my list of Most Super Cool People Ever, which is much smaller than my list of Super Cool People, which he was on previously.
Item # 2
The Bards & Sages Reader’s Choice Awards
As an act of shameless self promotion I am asking that you go
HERE and vote for my short story
Mortis Lupus. For those of you who did not get the April issue of Bards & Sages, the POV character of
Mortis Lupus is Brutus, and Julius Caesar is not an epileptic he is a werewolf who was infected during Lupercalia the festival of the wolf. The senators must kill him because they cannot allow Rome to be ruled by such a creature, all in under 2000 words. Come on, that deserves a vote doesn’t it? It even keeps the fact that the characters are Caesar and Brutus a surprise until the last paragraph (though I did drop some clues/hints).
Item # 3
A slight change to my current writing project. As I mentioned above I am an avid listener to Writing Excuses. One of the latest episodes was about the
Hollywood Formula. I found this idea very intriguing and plotted a story out using the formula, then of course I had to start writing it rather than waiting until I was done with the novel I was working on. Then I went back and rewrote my outline for Veil of Embers. The chapters I already have done will work just fine with the new outline. So I am now working on two novels using the Hollywood Formula, just to see how it works. After you listen to the podcast if your interested in trying it, script frenzy has a
free online worksheet for the Hollywood formula, that made it easier to use. These techniques are for writing scripts but I thought they were pretty easy to adapt, and I love trying new things.
That’s it if you made it this far then dub yourself :
Triblogosuperior Aficionado or for short:
Iblogosup Afic and thanks for reading my ramblings.
