Good morning. Today I’m over at Kinx’s Book Nook as a guest blogger talking shop and answering the one question I hear the most when I talk about Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb – Why Shakespeare? Without Shakespeare we’d have no Infinite Jest, The Sound and the Fury, Brave New World, or Pale Fire. Why Shakespeare, they… Continue reading Talking shop over at Kinx’s Book Nook
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Your Noble Son is Mad
It is a beautifully cool October day today. And yesterday Jay and I went to see Hamlet in downtown New York at Pace’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. The players were the Globe players, which back in 2009 we got to see in London as a groundlings, an experience I will treasure. It was cool… Continue reading Your Noble Son is Mad
Thus Ends Banned Books Week and Thus Begins Halloween Time
So I COMPLETELY missed Banned Books week. I don’t know how that happened. I was going to post something each day – talk about books that I love that had been banned. It was gonna be great. Instead, I did nothing. Figures, huh? In my defense it was a rough week. And now here we… Continue reading Thus Ends Banned Books Week and Thus Begins Halloween Time
Gate Night
My first horror story EVER has been published by the awesome boys at Jersey Devil Press. It’s a story about Gaelic dog people called Gate Night. Now, in my neck of the woods the day before Halloween was called Gate Night. I always assumed it had something to do with the gates of hell opening up.… Continue reading Gate Night
Happy October!
It’s finally October! My favorite month of the year. Not only is it autumn but it ends with Halloween, the best holiday ever. I love this bit from Neil Gaiman’s short story, October in the Chair (Fragile Things, Harper Collins): October was in the chair, so it was chilly that evening, and the leaves were… Continue reading Happy October!
Ally Malinenko 