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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:21:59 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled The Work is Not Me:
Peni said, "For reasons that will be clear to anyone who goes back a few days and reads the comments, I've disabled anonymous commenting for the foreseeable future. I don't much mind the trickle of commercial spam, but harassment spam is too tiresome to deal..." more
Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:27:54 AM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Who Are You?:
Peni said, "What's the worst thing that ever happened to you?Who were you before that?Who are you now?How did that transformation happen?You don't have to tell me (I'm certainly not going to tell you mine!), but you should tell yourself. Because that's your..." more
Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:03:50 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled And Then What?:
Peni said, "So, let's say you've gotten your work out there in your preferred venue. Let's say it's even moderately successful by whatever yardstick is used to measure success in that venue. (I would advise you to be flexible in your concept of success, as it..." more
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 5:32:08 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Gatekeepers:
Peni said, "With rare exceptions, we all find our way to the audience through a number of people. Editors and critique partners, publishers, marketers, educators, reviewers, legislators, and in the case of the younger audiences particularly, parents, often have..." more
Sunday, March 10, 2013 1:28:06 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Fun with First Lines, on Caffeine:
Peni said, "I felt steady enough to scrub the sole of my left foot, but found the feeling deceptive.Had the wind come from the south, I'd still be alive.Elsie watched her own head roll across the sand, bounce three times, and come to a stop canted on her chin...." more
Thursday, March 07, 2013 2:42:23 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Considering the Audience:
Peni said, "One of the many false dichotomies our society presents to us is the conflict between creating for ourselves and creating for a market. Creating for ourselves seems pure and virtuous, the only road to greatness, while catering to a market is crass..." more
Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:30:19 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled First, Catch Your Rabbit:
Peni said, "Supposedly there's an old cookbook somewhere that starts the recipe for rabbit stew with the instruction: "First, catch a rabbit." I'm pretty sure it's not true, but I'm a big fan of it as creative advice, particularly for people who intend to..." more
Sunday, March 03, 2013 3:06:16 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: The Busybody Ghost:
Peni said, "I do not by any means confine my idea intake to the Fortean Times, nor to recent nonfiction; nor,heaven forfend, to nonpartisan nonfiction. This week I've been reading one of the older books in my collection of Forteana: Unbidden Guests: A Book of..." more
Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:16:10 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled So You Want to Share:
Peni said, "We come at the desire to share our creations from one of two directions - the inside, or the outside.The inside track starts with the creation. You've been working/playing on something you enjoy, and you've gotten good enough at it that you want to..." more
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:56:07 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Genesis:
Peni said, "This has been a month of quiet, almost sub rosa publication for me, with Sullivan appearing as an e-book and my Sims2 neighborhood, though not yet officially hosted anywhere, being played by a handful of people who PMed me about it to whom I sent..." more
Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:52:04 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Pots and Pans:
Peni said, "Hmm...I had something in mind for the garage sale earlier this week, but I didn't make a note and now I can't find it in my head. Oh, well, if it's any good I'll think of it again and meantime I still haven't filed that issue of Fortean Times, so..." more
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:20:00 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled The Andre Norton Award Nominees Announced:
Peni said, "Blatantly copy-pasting from the SFWA website:Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and FantasyIron Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill (Little, Brown)Black Heart, Holly Black (S&S/McElderry; Gollancz)Above, Leah Bobet (Levine)The Diviners,..." more
Monday, February 18, 2013 2:33:57 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Excuse me...:
Peni said, "Idea Garage Dale? I was in a hurry yesterday, wasn't I?The e-version of Sullivan, That Summer is available from the publisher now and will go out to distributors next week.In case, you know, you want to buy one. (I have good reasons for not working..." more
Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:21:56 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Dale: A Sunday Brunch Buffet:
Peni said, "Before we begin, please, I would like to appeal to anybody out there who knows how to update Facebook with this blog to contact me and tell me how it's done. Because I know people do this sort of thing, but neither I nor the person who helped me set..." more
Friday, February 15, 2013 12:45:52 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled The Non-Compete Clause:
Peni said, "Another thing Mr. Lewis said in his keynote, and which he considered so important that he actually said: "Write this down," was "Never compete with the imagination of the child." He was addressing the picture book illustrator particularly, but it..." more
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:52:24 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Cross-Fertilization:
Peni said, "I'm finding Facebook a lot less intuitive than I expected. Therefore, there's nothing on it and I haven't invited anybody to be friends.For the record, I will not be your neighbor on Farmville and if you invite me to play Sims Social I will explain..." more
Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:38:19 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Quoth the Raven, Flaming War!:
Peni said, "So anyway Friday afternoon I drove up to Austin to stay overnight with some friends prior to attending the SCBWI conference in Austin, and we went out to eat at Kerby Lane. I of course showed them the cover for Sullivan, and remembered during supper..." more
Thursday, February 07, 2013 8:24:15 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Sullivan's Cover!:
Peni said, "I just sent off the galleys for Sullivan, That Summer and got a final of the cover in return. Not bad for a stock photo, huh?Also, the release date has been moved up to February 17!"
Sunday, February 03, 2013 11:32:10 AM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Wherefor Aren't Thou?:
Peni said, "So I'm wondering - where are the queer literary takes on Shakespeare?Recasting the culture's iconic literature to highlight the characters and concepts present, but not truly represented, in the original is a standard way of establishing a dialog..." more
Friday, February 01, 2013 3:58:08 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Hey, It Works!:
Peni said, "No, not the zipper (though I have now put in three in a row on the first try - it pays to do it again before you forget how); the Garage Sale!Andrew May took the Mechanical Gorilla notion, merged it with the hoax Bigfoot killed on the side of the..." more
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:30:04 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled News, and Contingency:
Peni said, "Yesterday was Award Day at the American Library Association Convention, and guess what? I haven't read any of the awards or honors. Yet.I'm particularly anxious to read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which took both a..." more
Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:30:02 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Ducks Discover America:
Peni said, "When I was researching 11,000 Years Lost, specifically when I was looking into the floral and faunal assemblages of the period so my hunter/gatherers could be hunting and gathering, avoiding and encountering, the right range of living things, I saw..." more
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:23:58 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Adjustment:
Peni said, "Late today, because the computer was sick - needed a new power supply. I've been writing a blog post in my head all day, but it seems to be two posts intertwined and I'm not sure I can separate them out enough. And it's late and I feel crappy, so..." more
Monday, January 21, 2013 2:43:52 PM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled Idea Garage Sale: Mobbing the Ghost:
Peni said, "Another month, another Fortean Times full of potential waiting to be developed.This month, I find an article on "ghost mobs," detailing the common 19th-century English occurrence of huge mobs of people on the lookout for ghosts - in cemeteries, in..." more
Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:51:01 AM
Peni Griffin wrote a blog post titled The Joy of Nitpicking:
Peni said, "So I'm reading for the Andre Norton award (and I'm not going to get them all read), and I'm on China Mieville's Railsea, and though I'm having no difficulty getting through the story I'm having a couple of problems with it. The relevant one at the..." more