Shaken & Stirred tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-217904 2012-01-24T14:16:49-05:00 welcome to Gwenda Bond's martini glass TypePad MIA tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf99653ef0168e6037684970c 2012-01-24T14:16:49-05:00 2012-01-24T14:16:49-05:00 I know! I know! But not for long. Promise. More posts coming sooooon. Seriously. Gwenda Bond

I know! I know! But not for long. Promise. More posts coming sooooon. Seriously.

 http://gwendabond.typepad.com/bondgirl/2012/01/mia.html Empaneled tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf99653ef0168e5b0e776970c 2012-01-17T11:02:34-05:00 2012-01-17T11:03:37-05:00 Charles Tan, aka the hardest working man in science fiction, recently hosted an email roundtable on YA speculative fiction with Malinda Lo, Tehani Wessely, Cheryl Morgan, Tarie Sabido, and yours truly. It was great fun to do, although apparently I was trying to see how many times I could use the word conversation. (Answer: LOTS.) I blame holiday madness. The resulting conversationpanel is now live at SF Signal. Check it out if you're so inclined. Gwenda Bond

Charles Tan, aka the hardest working man in science fiction, recently hosted an email roundtable on YA speculative fiction with Malinda Lo, Tehani Wessely, Cheryl Morgan, Tarie Sabido, and yours truly. It was great fun to do, although apparently I was trying to see how many times I could use the word conversation. (Answer: LOTS.) I blame holiday madness.

The resulting conversationpanel is now live at SF Signal. Check it out if you're so inclined.

 http://gwendabond.typepad.com/bondgirl/2012/01/empaneled.html Monday Hangovers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf99653ef0162ff4b3888970d 2012-01-09T14:21:27-05:00 2012-01-09T15:29:58-05:00 The wondrous Meghan McCarron has an *excellent* new story up at Tor.com, "Swift, Brutal Retaliation." You won't read another ghost story like this one anytime soon. Dept. of I Love This Kind of Thing: Maggie Stiefvater compares and contrasts the draft of a chapter, taking it from first version to last. Laini Taylor offers some questions to ask when a scene is giving you fits. I can't remember where I first saw this, but it's kind of amazing: "The Power of the Witch," a British documentary from 1971. There could have been no more perfect name for this bird than... Gwenda Bond
http://gwendabond.typepad.com/bondgirl/2012/01/monday-hangovers.html Happiest of New Years tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf99653ef0168e4ebad25970c 2012-01-03T15:38:11-05:00 2012-01-03T15:40:30-05:00 ...to you. (Should that be Year's? or is Years okay? the day has passed, so I'm going SANS apostrophe, because I'm a rebel that way.) I am--like everyone else--playing catch-up and swimming as fast as I can coming out of the holiday. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say this year is already looking like it's going to be verrrry interrrrresting. More soon. *swims* Gwenda Bond

...to you. (Should that be Year's? or is Years okay? the day has passed, so I'm going SANS apostrophe, because I'm a rebel that way.) I am--like everyone else--playing catch-up and swimming as fast as I can coming out of the holiday. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say this year is already looking like it's going to be verrrry interrrrresting.

More soon. *swims*

 http://gwendabond.typepad.com/bondgirl/2012/01/happiest-of-new-years.html This Was A Really Good Year tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bf99653ef0168e4bce1d5970c 2011-12-31T11:49:52-05:00 2011-12-31T12:12:39-05:00 In terms of reading -- I really do recommend all the books in the sidebar over there, and, as you'll see, my effort to winnow to a Top 10 resulted in a Top 17, that could just as easily have been a Top 20. But I forced myself to stop. Behind the cut tag (in reverse alphabetical order by author). Some Top Reads of 2011 How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma Bigger than a... Gwenda Bond

In terms of reading -- I really do recommend all the books in the sidebar over there, and, as you'll see, my effort to winnow to a Top 10 resulted in a Top 17, that could just as easily have been a Top 20. But I forced myself to stop. Behind the cut tag (in reverse alphabetical order by author).