Saturday catch-up post
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catherineldfOut of chronological order, I have a new guest blog post up, this one at the marvelous Lisabet Sarai's blog, Beyond Romance. My topic this time is writing in multiple genres, in particular crossing over from erotic to writing a nonerotic fantasy novel. I have now officially written more words about writing Silver Moon and what I meant by it and how I did it than I wrote on the previous 5 books combined. :-)
Apart from that, it has been a somewhat lively week. On Wednesday night, we went to go hear Patrick Coleman from the Minnesota Historical Society Library give a talk on the library, its resources, blogging about the 150 Best Minnesota Books and the Twin Cities Antiquarian Bookfair, which took place this weekend, at St. Paul's newest indie bookstore Subtext Books. Subtext will seem pretty familiar to some local folks - it's in Uncommon Books' old location under Nina's Coffee Cafe, the same manager from Uncommon Books has taken over the store as co-owner and manager and David Unowsky, late of Hungry Mind/Ruminator and Magers & Quinn Booksellers, is the new events coordinator. The talk was attended by a small but lively audience and was pretty informative (I didn't realize that MHS large collection was open and free to the public for research purposes). On a personal note, Pat told me he's expecting the collection's copy of Silver Moon any day now, which I'm pretty excited about. I get to write something about the writing of the book, which I really haven't done enough of lately. :-)
I also talked to the Subtext Books folks and I may be doing a reading there sometime soon.
Friday night, we were off to the TC Antiquarian Bookfair at the (unairconditioned) Progress Center at the Fairgrounds with a largish group of friends. We saw lots of friends and acquaintances and chatted up a lot of the same. I bought books - Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women (I can hardly wait until the sections where he visits Rosa Bonheur's home, followed by Jane Austen's!), renowned Victorian explorer and travel writer Isabella Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rockies and a beautiful illustrated first edition of Jeffrey Farnol's The Broad Highway. I do like me some Farnol and wish that more people read his romantic swashbuckling adventures. Seriously, if you like Heyer, Sabatini, Panshin and/or Hope, you'll probably also like Farnol.
Tonight, we're off to see Brave, which I'm guessing we'll think is quite pretty. Then it's CONvergence prep and actual writing tomorrow - yippee! Hope to see some of you there!
Apart from that, it has been a somewhat lively week. On Wednesday night, we went to go hear Patrick Coleman from the Minnesota Historical Society Library give a talk on the library, its resources, blogging about the 150 Best Minnesota Books and the Twin Cities Antiquarian Bookfair, which took place this weekend, at St. Paul's newest indie bookstore Subtext Books. Subtext will seem pretty familiar to some local folks - it's in Uncommon Books' old location under Nina's Coffee Cafe, the same manager from Uncommon Books has taken over the store as co-owner and manager and David Unowsky, late of Hungry Mind/Ruminator and Magers & Quinn Booksellers, is the new events coordinator. The talk was attended by a small but lively audience and was pretty informative (I didn't realize that MHS large collection was open and free to the public for research purposes). On a personal note, Pat told me he's expecting the collection's copy of Silver Moon any day now, which I'm pretty excited about. I get to write something about the writing of the book, which I really haven't done enough of lately. :-)
I also talked to the Subtext Books folks and I may be doing a reading there sometime soon.
Friday night, we were off to the TC Antiquarian Bookfair at the (unairconditioned) Progress Center at the Fairgrounds with a largish group of friends. We saw lots of friends and acquaintances and chatted up a lot of the same. I bought books - Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women (I can hardly wait until the sections where he visits Rosa Bonheur's home, followed by Jane Austen's!), renowned Victorian explorer and travel writer Isabella Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rockies and a beautiful illustrated first edition of Jeffrey Farnol's The Broad Highway. I do like me some Farnol and wish that more people read his romantic swashbuckling adventures. Seriously, if you like Heyer, Sabatini, Panshin and/or Hope, you'll probably also like Farnol.
Tonight, we're off to see Brave, which I'm guessing we'll think is quite pretty. Then it's CONvergence prep and actual writing tomorrow - yippee! Hope to see some of you there!