Why be inspired by one Villemard picture when you can be inspired by two?
I intended to spend this afternoon working on my story for the 'Ghosts in the Machine' anthology - which is beginning to look like one of those cursed never-going-to-get-around-to-it projects - when I stumbled across another anthology (courtesy of a posting on the Graveside Tales forum) with a theme that I just had to have a crack at.
From the Asylum is looking for stories for their 'Things Aren't What They Seem' anthology. The closing date was originally this Tuesday but has now been pushed forward to May 15th. I am currently 205 (WOW!) words into my entry titled 'Flying Dutchmen!'
Oh, and I finished the synopsis for 'The Poisoned Apple' earlier. I now have no excuse and will have to send it out to agents. GULP!
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By: Catherine J Gardner,
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By: Catherine J Gardner,
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So, it’s banned books week. I have a few links I’ve been sitting on for a while trying to find a way to look at them together but I think this week has given me the nudge. Banning books is bad. Challenging books is an exercise in free speech and a totally appropriate way of giving community feedback on library selection policies. Lumping challenged and banned books together confuses two different issues, to my mind. For some reason thinking about free speech and libraries makes me think about union issues. There have been a few in the news lately and not so lately and I apologize for not getting to them sooner.
- I read in Library Journal that the Jackson County libraries in Oregon will be re-opening. You may recall these libraries were in in areas hard hit by the drop-off in lumber industry work and general poverty conditions and the county could not keep them open. Now they can. What happened? The county outsourced the running of the libraries to LSSI, a library services company based in Maryland. Library workers from the system have to apply for their old jobs. What does this mean? It means no unions for employees anymore — the union had also submitted a proposal for re-opening the libraries. It means that a larger percentage of the library’s budget will actually be leaving Jackson County, not staying in it.
- In Vancouver BC the librarians have been on strike for 70 days and my apologies for not discussing this sooner. Check out the library website, bleak huh? I’ll be in Vancouver next week. I’d like to go to the library. If I have to cross a picket line, I don’t think I’ll go, or maybe I’ll just go and talk to the picketers instead. Here’s a Flickr photoset from Day 64 of the strike and a nice black and white set. The union, CUPE 391, has their own photo area and have a website and blog to get out not just their message, but responses to the messages put out by their adversaries.
You can read more about this sort of thing over at Union Librarian.
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Good luck with The Poisoned Apple! I've had my own manuscript in the hands of two "Higher -Ups" (one an agency, the other a small press) for 2 months now. It feels as if I've sent my child off to camp or something...
Wow Barry, that's amazing.
I have the opinion that The Poisoned Apple will become an international hit, read by people everywhere.
Of course, I also chose the wrong person in the Super Bowl, watch Revolutionary War movies expecting that the British will win the next go round, and argue with people about whether there are actually monkeys in the Terry Gilliam film, Twelve Monkeys.
But I am certain about this!
Great pic. something very imagination inspiring about it.
Good luck with your projects. I've got an anthology I need to get a story done for too but I was procrastinating tonight.
Tjanks for visiting my blog.
JC - Ah, as misguided a view of the world as I have. :) I love Twelve Monkeys - ingenious.
Charles - thanks for popping on over.
Good luck with the agent search!
Let’s remember, Matt Hilton wasn’t signed until his eighth novel. :)
Good luck, Cate!