FRIEND: I know you’re doing your all-Gothic all-the-time readings. SARAH: Friend, that is true. Let me tell you a funny story about live burial. FRIEND: … No, you’re OK. FRIEND: So you like those Amelia Peabody novels by that author Elizabeth Peters, well that lady wrote a ton of Gothic fiction under the name Barbara […]
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THE UNSPOKEN COVER
The Unspoken Cover Revealed!(also a contest). Or, see below… And the official cover copy: Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider […]
The Unspoken Cover Story
I was once asked by a lovely lady at a convention what getting a cover felt like. ‘Well,’ I said after a pause. ‘It’s kind of like someone coming up behind you in a dark alley. Maybe it’s a friend who you’re going to be delighted to see after the moment of terror passes! And […]
Thinkin’ About Adaptations
I cross-posted this from tumblr, because Discussions are Important, so… that’s why all the pictures. 😉 I remember being still in school, and going to see a movie called Clueless with all my friends. I sat there enjoying myself and then slowly, slowly it started to dawn on me that I KNEW THIS STORY. SARAH: […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I thought this was the perfect day to make my Gothic Tuesday (and Secret Sleuth Thursday) post about a book I love, which is both a Gothic and a sleuthin’ lady story. That book is the Woman in White, a story in which an Evil Baronet marries a beautiful innocent young lady, and then to […]
Prince Caspian Parody: Peter The Magnificent & Caspian The Super Fine
GENERAL: Lord Miraz, you have a son! MIRAZ: Well, you know what that means. GENERAL: Set off fireworks around the castle? MIRAZ: Exactly! Oh, and kill my nephew Prince Caspian. DARKLY OMINOUS CLOAKED FIGURE: Nobody will notice me sneaking into Caspian’s bedchamber. AUDIENCE: Why not? LIGHT: falls on Prince Caspian’s sleeping face AUDIENCE: Oh I […]