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ellenkushnerLight has finally dawned over Marble Head, as I realize that it is easier to post Cool New Things that have Drawn My Attention here in a bloggish sort of way than to try and keep putting them up on my website.
So I'll indulge myself with news of my creative & publishing activities (all the "To Come" stuff, anyway - the Official Appearances, existing performances etc. can all be found at
http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/
where they are meticulously updated), plus stray comments on music, film, books & trenchant sayings that I hope will be of interest to anyone who likes the rather sprawling and eclectic Ellenverse that includes the novel Swordspoint http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/swordspoint.html (check out the new page - complete with falling snow! - by Theo Black), the public radio show Sound & Spirit http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/, and so much in between.
I haven't spent much time on LiveJournal, so am not familiar with the Customs of the Country; but that's all right, I'm used to that, and I won't mind if you don't.
So I'll indulge myself with news of my creative & publishing activities (all the "To Come" stuff, anyway - the Official Appearances, existing performances etc. can all be found at
http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/
where they are meticulously updated), plus stray comments on music, film, books & trenchant sayings that I hope will be of interest to anyone who likes the rather sprawling and eclectic Ellenverse that includes the novel Swordspoint http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/swordspoint.html (check out the new page - complete with falling snow! - by Theo Black), the public radio show Sound & Spirit http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/, and so much in between.
I haven't spent much time on LiveJournal, so am not familiar with the Customs of the Country; but that's all right, I'm used to that, and I won't mind if you don't.
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Date: 2004-11-19 04:29 pm (UTC)If you like, I could mention on my journal that you have a journal, and anyone who reads me and knows you (or knows your work, or likes reading journals of writers) can also rush over and add you.
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Date: 2004-11-19 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-20 03:43 am (UTC)You see: I am way, way over being horrified that I am actually old enough for adults to have read my stuff "when I was a kid". Way over it. Really! (No, I am. I think it's cool.)
I'm super glad you liked KINGS, too!! Delia & I got a lot of crap from some circles because it wasn't - wasn't - SWORDSPOINT all over again! (Well, duhh.... How boring would *that* be? Whaddo I look like, Robert Freakin' Jordan?)
ek,
Department of Low Blows,
Upper Ruritania Social Services
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Date: 2004-11-20 12:38 am (UTC)You won't remember me, but I was the person whose husband tried to make an organization chart from the characters in The Fall of the Kings. Alas (or luckily, depending on your perspective), the chart was lost in the Great Office Excavation and so remains a mythical object to us all, except for my husband, who insists that it exists Somewhere.
Oh. Er. Sorry. I'm babbling again. Hi, she says brightly. Welcome to Livejournal.
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Date: 2004-11-20 03:28 am (UTC)Anyhow, my sympathies. I am currently trying to find the original longhand version of the menu for the Duchess Tremontaine's winter barge party so I can maybe post it on my website. I know it's somewhere . . . this is what comes of cleaning up one's office - or trying to. Everything disappears. The falcon cannot hear the falconer.....
P.S.
Date: 2004-11-20 03:23 pm (UTC)"Keep looking!" she says.
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Date: 2004-11-21 12:47 pm (UTC)Ah well, I shall persist in the search. Perhaps the chart migrated into the overstuffed office closet, which has not been cleaned out since.... since a while, let us say.
I do hope you find the original menu! Knowing the Duchess Tremontaine's character, I imagine it is a thing of beauty and elegance.
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Date: 2004-11-20 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-20 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-20 02:48 am (UTC)Um, this is Rachel Manija Brown, from World Fantasy a couple years ago. The small woman with dark hair who used to write for TV (only I recently sold my first book and don't any more.)
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Date: 2004-11-20 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-21 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-21 06:06 am (UTC)If you click on my name, my latest journal entry coincidentally has a link to photos of myself wearing that same jacket (If it was mine and not Delia's.)
Thanks for the congratulations. It's a memoir about how I grew up on a bizarre ashram in India, and it's coming out from Rodale in September. Everyone says it reminds them of Running With Scissors.
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Date: 2004-11-25 05:53 pm (UTC)The book sounds fantastic - can't wait to see it.
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Date: 2004-11-25 07:54 pm (UTC)Loved your birthday cake.
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Date: 2004-11-20 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-21 04:12 am (UTC)http://www.portersquarebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=B2AB3EC7029A4E3210280FC93994E180.t9?s=storeevents&eventId=287656
at 2 p.m. I will be joined by fiddler Joe Kessler, who does the ESTHER show
http://www.sff.net/people/KushnerSherman/kushner/programs.html#esther
with me - he was going to do Noreascon, too, but had a paying gig that night.
So if you're in the area, do come!
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Date: 2004-11-20 05:19 am (UTC)Er, what I meant to say is "Welcome!" (And thanks to
Welcome!
Date: 2004-11-20 06:21 am (UTC)Wheeee!!!!
Date: 2004-11-20 12:06 pm (UTC)(Dies of pleasure)
K as in Kaveney, of course.
Re: Wheeee!!!!
Date: 2004-11-23 02:58 pm (UTC)Delia is still raving about the glad time she spent in London with you & Veronica - she loves telling the story of how some guy on the street, seeing 3 tall, rather striking women with red-and-black-and-fuschia hair striding by, shouted out, "What are you, the Osmond Family?!" Delia says she finally realized he meant the Osbornes, as in Ozzie et al...an object lesson in the damaging effects of strong drink.
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Date: 2004-11-23 03:00 pm (UTC)Do you think she might be prevailed upon to post it online or on LJ?
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Date: 2004-11-23 11:41 pm (UTC)I'm not sure it was the lube, but it definitely did not fit the Kinder, Gentler Ellen that PRI & my producers wanted - and got - for Sound & Spirit, for better or worse.
WGBH has changed a lot, but you can actually listen to it now 24/7 online at www.wgbh.org
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Date: 2004-11-20 01:09 pm (UTC)Welcome!
Date: 2004-11-20 01:13 pm (UTC)Many welcomes . . . .
Date: 2004-11-20 03:33 pm (UTC)So, thank you. As I am always running all over the place, both literally and figuratively, and am tremendously distractable withal, I may not be the most active participant in community activities, but it is awfully good to be here with you.
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Date: 2004-11-21 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-21 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-21 05:36 am (UTC)You know when you have a set of old, beloved characters in a single, stand-alone novel, and you think that that's it, there's no more about them to be read? And then you find out that you're wrong, and there are three new stories? It's a fabulous feeling. I think you just made my day.
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Date: 2004-11-21 04:43 pm (UTC)*off to eat Thai food for breakfast*
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Date: 2004-11-22 11:59 pm (UTC)Aine's "Twilight Realm" fairy harp album
http://www.minogue.com/albums/twilight.html
was what was on the stereo when you all were here after the FAERY REEL signing, btw, but I don't think anyone heard it over all the bright conversation and chewing of Thai food.
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Date: 2004-11-22 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-22 02:58 am (UTC)Like the old days of Genie...? Jeez, I hope not - as I recall, I was sporadic but very enfant terrible; now, of course, I am Civilized and Well Behaved. [Watch This Space]
(Yo Everyone Else - I love you madly, and will tell you so in pixels over the next few days...All this response is sweet and overwhelming and most welcome!)
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Date: 2004-11-22 08:10 am (UTC)Don't worry, most of us that you'll meet are are friendly in a completely non-threatening way.
Define "threat" . . . .
Date: 2004-11-23 03:02 pm (UTC)"One man's meat is another man's poison."
Re: Define "threat" . . . .
Date: 2004-11-25 07:00 pm (UTC)Hi, welcome to LJ.
Re: Define "threat" . . . .
Date: 2004-11-25 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-26 07:17 pm (UTC)