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A necessary rant...?
So, there's this dude (I am assuming) at Deviant Art who has created a poster of "Action figures" of "Heroes of Science" - i.e. folk who have had an influence, presumably, on the world of science. He has drawn the action figures as they might appear were they actually real - they are, as far as I understand it, not real as themselves. There is just the poster, not the actual figures. You can see it <a…See More
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A "Haunted" Halloween contest!
Win an ebook of ghost stories by Yours Truly, in time for Halloween! Details here: http://anghara.livejournal.com/545526.htmlSee More
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So, then. Harry Potter.
Last night, I went to see the final Pottermovie. Let me start with a few disclaimers here. The last Potter BOOK that I read was #3. The rest of my Potter experience was movies alone - and I appreciate at the outset that I may be losing out on the minutiae of it all thereby. But speaking of the movies, I thought that #1 was full of precisely the kind of glee and vivid invention that made Rowlings's workd so irresistible. #2 I barely remember. #3 was perhaps my favourite of them, with a certain…See More
Theresa Krueger commented on the blog post '"Midnight at Spanish Gardens" - the new novel!'
"Your book sounds fantastic! I'm scribbling the title down right now so I can buy it when it comes out in paperback."
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"Midnight at Spanish Gardens" - the new novel!
What If … ? What if you could make a different choice at a critical moment in your life? What if you had married someone else, turned right instead of left, had taken that job you rejected? What if you had been born a man instead of a woman?My new novel, "Midnight at Spanish Gardens,(cover here )explores this universal question. It is now AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER as an ebook directly from the…See More
Alma Alexander commented on the blog post 'When writers review'
"Sandra - I appreciate your point - but I myself honestly don't see any point in NOT giving an honest review of any book at all and it doesn't matter what kind of shield you use, fame or "poor unknown author struggling to make his or…"
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Stories, stories everwhere
One of the perennial items tossed at every living writer in almost every interview is "Where do you get your ideas?" One well-known writer famously provided an address for an Ideas Shop in Schenectady (and had people TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY). I usually say that I have an Ideas Tree growing out back (and I've had people take THAT semi-seriously). Most writers, though, when confronted with the Question, simply fling their arms up in resignation and say "EVERYWHERE!" And they are, of course, right.…See More
Sandra Shwayder Sanchez commented on the blog post 'Talisman Books'
"I have never heard of many of the authors you mentioned BUT I would most certainly include among my own talisman books, The Lord of the Rings which I used to read out loud to my children by kerosene lamp a long time ago, and The Collected Stories of…"
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Talisman Books
Alison Goodman defines a Talisman Book as "one of those novels that you read over and over again, a book that seems to resonate through you, that wards off the disappointments and insecurities of everyday life." My Talisman Books are the ones I'd rescue from a burning building. For example: -- My dogeared paperback copy of 'Lord of the Rings'. This book – broken-spined, tattered, beloved – was probably one of the first thing that made me kneel at the altar of fantasy and begin SERIOUS worship…See More
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Coming This Fall... RIVER, the Anthology
It begins. Somewhere. An insignificant trickle of water that grows and changes, gathers a history, becomes the River, and finally reaches the sea, and vanishes into its vastness.The River. Full of life. Full of mystery. Full of stories.Rivers have always been very important to humankind. They've been explored. They've been navigated. They've been called gods. They've been blessed and cursed and venerated and used and enjoyed and exploited and polluted since the beginning of recorded history.…See More
Breena Clarke commented on the blog post 'What is it about notebooks?'
"well I'll be! I thought I was the only person who has bought out all of a particular type of wonderfully colored notebooks that Target sells. They are perfect. They have pens attached. They are stacked in my office. I add to them regularly.…"
Leigh Caron commented on the blog post 'What is it about notebooks?'
"Ha! I thought I was the only one who bought notebooks like that. Some of mine are so old, the spine has cracked. Uh, oh! Time to buy a new one."
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What is it about notebooks?
I've always been in love with notebooks. When I was younger it was hardcover notebooks in which I would write ENTIRE NOVELS, by hand, often in pencil. Later, especially when I graduated to the computer as a primary writing tool, they became smaller things I toted around in various purses and in which I scribbled quotes, ideas and half-finished poetry. Some were set aside as dedicated "research journals" for particular projects, and are filled with scrawled notes culled from various research…See More
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Happy Eleventy-Ninth Birthday, Professor
I don't know when I first REALLy encountered J.R.R.Tolkien, and Middle Earth. They have simply been a part of my life forever. I fell into "Lord of the Rings" and it closed over my head, and I've been breathing it through silver ever since, its words and worlds often as real to me - and sometimes far more real to me - than the ones I was physically contained in. It was the worlds of my heart and my spirit and my mind that have always mattered to me; all the rest is merely existing. THIS world…See More
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- Who I am:
- Alma Alexander is a pen name. I was born Alma A. Hromic on the shores of the river Danube in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. At the age of 10 my family moved to Africa where we spent 20 years.
I graduated from the University of Cape Town with an MSc in Microbiology in 1987 but quickly left the lab in order to write. I moved to New Zealand in 1994 where I wrote Houses in Africa, an amusing memoir of my life in Africa.
The same year, I published The Dolphin's Daughter and Other Stories,a bestselling book of three fables.
In 1999, when NATO launched a war against my native country, I started an often-tumultuous e-mail correspondence with R. A. "Deck" Deckert, a freelance writer and former newsman. Our correspondence became the basis of an epistolary novel about these dramatic events, Letters from the Fire. This book went from concept to publication in fewer than five months.
I married Deck in June, 2000, and now live in the northwestern United States.
My fantasy duology The Hidden Queen and Changer of Days was released in the United States in 2005. A fantasy set in a fictional medieval China, The Secrets of Jin-shei, has been published in 14 languages. The follow-up, Embers of Heaven, is available in five languages. My Worldweavers young adult trilogy debuted with Gift of the Unmage in 2007 and was followed by Spellspam in 2008 and Cybermage in 2009.
Two new manuscripts are with my agent and I'm currently working on another YA series.
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- www.AlmaAlexander.com
www.AlmaAlexander.org
http://anghara.livejournal.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alma-Alexander/67938071280
https://twitter.com/AlmaAlexander
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Novels:
Secrets of Jin Shei
Embers of Heaven
The Hidden Queen/ Changer of Days duology (high fantasy)
WOrldweavers series (Gift of the Unmage, Spellspam, Cybermage, and the forthcoming Dawn of Magic)
Midnight at Spanish Gardens
Stories appeared in anthologies (a selection):
In an Iron Cage
Human Tales
Close Encounters of the URban Kind
Gears and Levers 2
Mystical Cat
Absolute Visions
Scheherezade's Facade
Dar Faith II: Invocations
Phantom Drift magazine
Anthologies edited:
River (with stories by Nisi Shawl, Jay Lake, Seanan McGuire, Tiffany Trent, Brenda Cooper, Joshua Palmatier, and others)
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Active online: writing for group blogs (www.SFNovelists.com and www.StorytellersUnplugged.com), occasional book reviews for www.SFSite.com, and keeping up my own blog (http://anghara.livejournal.com)
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts, Lit Crit
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Books
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I am PRIMARILY a writer. But if you want an editor for your work, a ghostwriter for your story, or a directed mentoring session for yoru writing (fiction and non-fiction) send me a message and we can talk.
- My professional associations:
- SFWA
- I found out about She Writes from:
- word of mouth
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A necessary rant...?
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:23pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
So, there's this dude (I am assuming) at Deviant Art who has created a poster of "Action figures" of "Heroes of Science" - i.e. folk who have had an influence, presumably, on the world of science. He has drawn the action figures as they might appear were they actually real - they are, as far as I understand it, not real as themselves. There is just the poster, not the actual figures. You can see it <a…
Continue A "Haunted" Halloween contest!
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 3:59pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Win an ebook of ghost stories by Yours Truly, in time for Halloween! Details here:
So, then. Harry Potter.
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 2:14pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Last night, I went to see the final Pottermovie.
Let me start with a few disclaimers here. The last Potter BOOK that I read was #3. The rest of my Potter experience was movies alone - and I appreciate at the outset that I may be losing out on the minutiae of it all thereby. But speaking of the movies, I thought that #1 was full of precisely the kind of glee and vivid invention that made Rowlings's workd so irresistible. #2 I barely remember. #3 was perhaps my favourite of…
Continue "Midnight at Spanish Gardens" - the new novel!
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 9:26pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
What If … ? What if you could make a different choice at a critical moment in your life? What if you had married someone else, turned right instead of left, had taken that job you rejected? What if you had been born a man instead of a woman?
My new novel, "Midnight at Spanish Gardens,(cover here )explores this universal question. It is now AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER as an… Continue
My new novel, "Midnight at Spanish Gardens,(cover here )explores this universal question. It is now AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER as an… Continue
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- At 5:23am on September 22, 2010,
Editors Picks said… - Hey Alma,
Your post is featured on Editor's Picks, and you're in great company this week!
Check it out here.
Keep writing,
-Kate
Managing Editor, She Writes Blog
Community Manager, She Writes
- At 7:39am on July 21, 2010,
Kate Hanselman said… - Hey Alma,
Just letting you know we've featured you in our Editors' Picks.
Head over and check it out!
Keep up the good work,
-Kate
Managing Editor, She Writes Blog
Community Manager, She Writes
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