May 2012
67 posts
“[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies.”
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The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity.
(via jtotheizzoe)
Praise from Kirkus for Dirt by David Vann
“There is something of Beckett here in their cruel conversations that never get to the heart of the matter, that always seem to affirm Galen’s slim hold on reality. At turns savage and comic, Vann’s richly complex novel does what the best literature does: It makes demands on its readers.”
Praise for Try the Morgue by Eva Maria Staal
“Smart, sharp, and relentless, TRY THE MORGUE flies like a bullet. A smashing debut that I couldn’t put down.” -Tess Gerritsen
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Publishers Weekly on @ElinHilderbrand's Summerland
“The sparks that this story throws out becomes a current that circles the agitated kids and their parents, electrifying the atmosphere as they grapple with what happened. Hilderbrand (Silver Girl) has a gift for building tension, and the reader will be willing to do just about anything to discover the real reason why Penny would drive herself, her brother, and her boyfriend over an embankment into oblivion.”
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April 2012
107 posts
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Fantastic blog review of @RuckaWriter's Alpha
“Alpha is a fantastic book and a great start to a new series by Greg Rucka. I enjoyed the rapid pace, the action and the well developed characters Rucka created. I hated the moments when I was forced to put the book down and take care of my daily chores. I was constantly trying to find a few minutes alone to read as much as I could. It was a story that I enjoyed very much. Can’t wait to see what else Rucka has for me!”
http://www.theiemommy.com/2012/04/23/alpha-by-greg-rucka-book-review/
Starred Kirkus review for The Prophet by @MJKoryta
“This book succeeds on any number of levels. It’s a brilliantly paced thriller that keeps its villains at a tantalizing distance, a compelling family portrait, a study in morality that goes beyond the usual black-and-white judgments, and an entertaining spin on classic football fiction. A flawless performance.
A compulsively readable novel about brothers on opposite sides of life.”
BOOK OVERDOSE: Review: Glitch by Heather Anastasiu →
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“I haven’t read dystopia novels lately and it’s really great to find a good one after a long break.”
“So yes, the publisher was very supportive …. All of the people I worked with at the publisher, they all really care about making books, and I learned a lot about what goes into it, big choices and little choices. I was really impressed by the professionalism, dedication, and creativity that they put into those choices, and I saw first-hand how it’s those choices that really end up turning the manuscript into a book. I mean, it is the same text, the same work, but the way you present it, the way you frame it, bring people into the story through design and art and how you try to make them interested, that’s not something that I have any idea how to do, but they do. I learned what it means to actually publish something—they don’t slap a cover on it and ship it to stores.”
—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (via notesfromtheroughfront)
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“When you finish ABSOLUTION there is one sure thing that stays with you: Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted and intelligent novelist, and he is just getting started.”
—@PGourevitch writing in the @NewYorker
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“Part social panorama, part crime thriller, part psychological drama, SHOOTING VICTORIA tells the long overlooked story of the seven would-be assassins who sought to destroy the British monarchy but ended up consolidating it. Paul Thomas Murphy’s superb account reaches from the highest echelons of British society down to its criminal underworld and brings a wealth of historical detail vividly into view.”
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Robert Morrison, author of The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
(Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy)
“The Day of the Jackal comes to Windsor Castle! SHOOTING VICTORIA vividly describes a relay-race of assassins with the Queen Empress in their sights. How did so many of them miss? A lost piece of history placed deftly into the underworld atmosphere of the era.”
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Donald Thomas, author of Villains’ Paradise
(Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy)
“This book achieves admirably the difficult task of providing a fresh account of the reign of Queen Victoria…a rattling good story, which I found difficult to put down.”
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Chris Payne, author of The Chieftain
(Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy)
Near Mint podcast ep. 47: @MattKindt on Mind MGMT (1st issue 5/23 @DarkHorseComics) →
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Ben Peirce is back with another NEAR MINTerview! Joining us this month from St. Louis, Missouri is Matt Kindt. Matt is a Harvey Award-winning writer and artist who made a name for himself with his breakout hits, Super Spy and 2 Sisters, from Top Shelf Publications. Since then, he’s produced a number of graphic novels, including 3 Story: the Secret History of the Giant Man, from Dark Horse, Revolver at Vertigo, and The Tooth with Cullen Bunn from Oni Press. He recently took the reigns on Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth, where he penciled a pivotal story arc in the series.
We touch on many of those works over the course of the interview as well as some new projects Matt has coming up. His new ongoing series from Dark Horse, Mind MGMT is generating a lot of excitement. And in the coming months, he’ll be taking over as the regular writer on Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E. There’s a lot to look forward to from Matt Kindt and we cover it all, as well as thoughts on the Watchmen prequels and predictions for the Oscars – don’t miss it!
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