Today. The last day of the SCBWI Los Angeles conference. It will end with an autograph party. We have had remarkable speakers from the opening, Arthur Levine on Timeless…books writers, illustrators, ideas. Karen Cushman on Courting Surprises.Clare Vanderpool on writing life and craft. Tony DiTerlizze on, well, the joy of ideas, how an illustrator gets…
writer’s camp…
off to LA today for the 41st annual Los Angeles SCBWI Conference. It is always a treat, and I am grateful to be able to go, meet other RA/ARA/IC’s domestic and international. It’s also a time to scout out the editors and agents and published authors and try and convince them that coming to the…
Series Finale
say series finale, and you think of a long running show and then lots of publicity, and the loss of characters who have been in your house for what seems like a lifetime. I sort of felt that way with Eureka! On the SciFi channel. I say sort of because when they did the ‘going…
Dr. Who….
Do you know all the regenerations of Doctor Who? I just finished reading SHADA, by Garth Roberts. It is the Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams, of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY fame, a regular Doctor Who script writer, and so much more. It’s the story of the Time Lord’s prison for those really bad…
archenemies…
There are some pretty classic archenemies. Holmes & Moriarity. Superman & Lex Luthor. The Jedi & The Sith. Peter Pan & Captain Hook. Dr Who & The Master. Denis Nayland Smith & Fu Manchu. Not to mention Harry and Lord Voldemort. Classic, meaning definitive, of the highest quality, outstanding example of it’s kind. It’s not just…