Laurie's website

[ellenkushner]

Holy cow! I just found Laurie J. Marks' new(ish - looks like it was put up right before Water Logic came out last year, and I missed it somehow) website. It is just delicious - kind of like being inside the nicest bits of my friend & beloved colleague Laurie's head. We met at, I think it was some WFC too many years ago to count. After she moved to Boston, we took long walks & talked a lot about Life and Writing. I miss her, so it's nice to be able to visit her brain online! I think my favorite bits are The University of Laurie (everything from the "Finish that Novel" fight song to insights from teaching Freshman Comp at UMass), and the online quiz for "Your Elemental Profile," which shows you your mix of elemental magics in her world of Shaftal. Laurie was GoH at Wiscon last year. If you don't know her work, you should.

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[glasshouses.livejournal.com]

My company's proxy server blocks her site under the category "sex." Heh. Now I *really* want to visit it.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Well I'm scunnered.

She seemed like such anice girl!

[fatfred.livejournal.com]

Did you know Colleen Doran is posting about you?
HERE. (http://www.adistantsoil.com/blog/")
It's good stuff.

*goes back to lurking*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful post! More about Delia than me - and richly deserved. I'll tell her - she'll be thrilled. Thanks for letting us know.

[ellen-denham.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I've enjoyed her books and she gave me a private critique at Odyssey that helped me take a step on the path to understanding why my short stories turn into novels! (Almost two years later, I'm finally managing to write some things that don't sprawl.)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You're the second person in the past few weeks to tell me they'd gotten a huge benefit from Laurie's critiques (the other was at the Wiscon Writer's Respite). I wish they'd hurry up and give her a Clarion week, already!!

I'm glad your writing's going well. (waves)