by csweet | Dec 31, 2011 | Blog Archive, Uncategorized
A former student of mine just sent me this photo, from her recent trip to England. It’s sublime. The sublime isn’t truly happy without the ridiculous, its badly behaved twin. So as I gazed at this photo of Stonehenge, all shivery with awe, I found myself...
by csweet | Dec 14, 2011 | Blog Archive
I tell my creative writing students that their readers will surprise them. I say that, once their story’s out there, someone will come up with a theme they’d never thought of, or a take on a character that’s strange and new and yet totally credible. I tell my students...
by csweet | Nov 22, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
“Beautiful Nightmare.” There hasn’t yet been a more satisfying description of The Pattern Scars than this—which is appropriate, as this particular description appears in the first “official” review of the book, in the Huffington Post. It’s a wonderful review—the kind...
by csweet | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog Archive
I haven’t had any trouble with each of my three books’ dedications. With the wording, perhaps, but never with the names, which slipped onto those first blank pages as if I’d been turning them over in my head for as long as I’d been writing the books. (Yes, OK, so...
by csweet | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
84 Harbord Ave. Bakka-Phoenix Books. Saturday, November 5, from 3–5:30(ish). I’ll be there, along with ChiZine Publications and Martin Springett, to mark the official debut of The Pattern Scars. Come join us! (There’ll be tarot card reading and...
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