![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll be popping in and out throughout the day to answer questions. Obligatory links: Website, Instagram, Twitter, and my Patreon, where I post Green Bone Saga short stories and bonus content. It's been a whirlwind week, and I have to say it feels damned good to have completed the trilogy and have it out in the world. I did a previous AMA here for the release of Jade City and here for Jade War.īesides finishing the biggest creative project of my life so far, I've been spending the pandemic eating takeout and watching anime. I've also written three YA science fiction novels and a smattering of short stories. It won the World Fantasy Award, has been translated into a bunch of languages, and is optioned for TV development. The series is an epic urban fantasy gangster family saga set in a modern Asia-inspired metropolis and spanning about 30 years. I'm the author of the Green Bone Saga, which began with Jade City, continued in Jade War, and concludes this week with the release of Jade Legacy. ![]()
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![]() A highly satisfying classic-in-the-making full of spine-tingling moments, both books in the delightful time-travelling Molly and Miri series is perfect for the whole family. Without meaning to, she has found a way to travel back in time to 1935 where she discovers Molly, a girl her own age very much in need of a loving family. But when Miri gets sent to her room after accidentally bashing her big brother on the head with a shovel, she finds herself in the same room. The family has just moved to an old farmhouse in a new town, where the only good thing seems to be Miri's ten-sided attic bedroom. as well as the highly acclaimed childrens series Ivy and Bean and The Magic Half. ![]() Miri is the non-twin child in a family with two sets of them-older brothers and younger sisters. Books by Annie Barrows Magic in the Mix 9781408866177 Bloomsbury. From New York Times bestselling author of the Ivy and Bean series and blockbuster The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society comes a sweet and charming time travel story. ![]() ![]() The story-line interested me a lot and throughout the film I kept wanting to read the book. Until the day Gwen, out the clear blue sky, suddenly finds herself in London at the end of the 19th century. ![]() Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene, and so everything is all Charlotte, all the time. They all have to do with the time-travel gene that is passed down in the family. ![]() What's annoying is that her family definitely has a tad too many secrets. « Gwendolyn Shepherd is actually a very normal 16-year-old-teen. Here's the summary for the movie adaptation from the imdb page: treatment of Charlotte/ (almost)-instant-love with Gideon) I had a lot of fun watching it. ![]() Has anyone read the RubinRot/Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier? I came across the 2013 movie yesterday and have to admit despite some of the issues I had with the story-line (i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. ![]() For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. PopMattersOn Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. ![]()
![]() ![]() Mers are hunted as frequently as possible during the Winter years, to the brink of extinction. The Hegemony’s interest in Tiamat has to do with the “mers,” sentient sea-dwelling creatures whose blood provides the “water of life,” a virus that halts the aging process. Interstellar travel between Tiamat and the Hegemony is only possible during the 150 years of Winter rule, and a single woman rules the entire planet: a “Snow Queen” in Winter, a “Summer Queen” in Summer. To keep the uneasy peace, the government switches between Winter rule and Summer rule. Every 150 years, the sun’s orbit around a black hole dramatically impacts the planetary ecology. The residents of Tiamat are split into two clans: “Winters,” who advocate technological progress and trade with offworlders, and “Summers,” who depend on their folk traditions and rigid social distinctions to survive on this marginal planet. ![]() Based on the fairy-tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat, whose suns orbit a black hole, which facilitates a type of interstellar wormhole travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the civilized galaxy (the “Hegemony”, the remnants of a fallen Galactic Empire). Vinge’s 536-page science fiction novel has a rather complicated plot, so I’m going to use/trim the synopsis on Wikipedia (click link to read full synopsis). ![]() ![]() ![]() She edited Becoming International: Musings on Studying Abroad in America (Parlor Press). Her book reviews can be found in Los Angeles Review of Books and Southern Literary Review. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Appalachian Heritage, Aquifer: The Florida Review, Blueline, Cimmaron Review, The Hongkong Review, Lines+Stars, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sierra Nevada Review, Southwest Review, Utne Reader, and Witness, among others. She is the author of HONEY MONTH (Main Street Rag). Sadie Shorr-Parks teaches writing at Shepherd University, where she is the Director for the Society for Creative Writing. ![]() On Episode 142 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Sadie Shorr-Parks, and the two discuss, among other topics, her lifelong love of poetry, formational writers and poems, art’s role in her writing life, themes of her poetry revolving around love and loss and so many more themes, and the amazing circumstances that inspired her poetry collection’s title and ethos. Episode 142 Notes and Links to Sadie Shorr-Parks’ Work ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Carroll From Library Journal:įrom 1969 until the Roe v. ![]() This is lively, nuanced history that brings to life the hopes, terrors, and disappointments of a movement committed to giving women control over their own bodies. ![]() Because Jane kept limited records, Kaplan's reconstruction is based on interviews with some 40 percent of the 100 women who participated at one time or another some Jane members are not prepared to be publicly identified, so Kaplan uses pseudonyms for all of them, including herself. Herself a member of Jane, Kaplan describes stages in the service's brief life-from screening abortionists to referring clients to a particular practitioner to learning how to perform abortions themselves-and the issues of knowledge, power, responsibility, and respect, which had a key impact on interactions among participants as well as on Jane's relationships with clients, the medical establishment, and the criminal justice system. ![]() Spot and Dick play no role in Kaplan's vivid, thoughtful "collective memoir" of the Chicago women who formed Jane (officially, the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation), which gave 11,000 women access to safe but illegal abortions between 1969 and the Supreme Court's Roe v. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. ![]() Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. ![]() ![]() Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. ![]() ![]() The “Gruppo di UR” was a group of Italian esotericists who collaborated from 1927 to 1929.
![]() ![]() ![]() 462 through 5 games.Ĭarter Reed (2027, KS) went 1-2 with 1 double and 2 runs scored. Lincoln Jensen (2026, KS) went 1-2 in the game. Nolan Pfannenstiel (2027, KS) led the way for the 316 Cervantez 2027 offense going 1-3 in the game. Douglass worked consistently in the 75-78 mph range and complemented their fastball with a 69-mph curveball. Cary worked consistently in the 72-76 mph range and complemented their fastball with a 60-mph curveball.Ĭarson Douglass (2027, KS) pitched for 316 Cervantez 2027 allowing 2 hits and 6 walks, striking out 3 batters in 2.1 innings. Kade Cary (2027, KS) earned the win for 316 Cervantez 2027 allowing 1 hit and 4 walks, striking out 3 batters in 3.2 innings. ![]() |
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