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BECAUSE THE ANGELS
Spike bounced the condom balloon against the office ceiling's trapezoidal light fixture fifty-two times before she missed it."
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I stayed up until midnight on January 23, because the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award opened on 12:01 am on the 24th. I was too wired to sleep afterwards. Someone offered me help on my "pitch" at…Continue
Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?
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A character in my novel is obsessed with high-end Japanese anime. I am looking for the Japanese translation of "whatever" in the sense it is used by young people when they are annoyed or…Continue
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What I would do if I had a Sabbatical
Everytime I get an e-mail from She Writes, I sigh heavily, because I really wish I had the time to be thoroughly engaged with it. But it my work with a human rights organization, I spend most of the day responding to e-mails and editing releases that come in from our projects in the field. I also have an eye condition which makes working more than 8 hours on the computer extremely painful. So I'm looking for a Sabbatical, preferably one that would be revenue-neutral for my organization, which…See More
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Where the sacred has met the profane in my fiction-writing life: The story behind my novel, Because the Angels
Where the sacred has met the profane in my fiction-writing life: The story behind my novel, Because the Angels by Kathleen Kern In 2008, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in some higher-end Japanese anime series, to the point that I began spinning stories in my head with the series’ characters. I had done similar story-making as a child, taking the characters from books, movies and television shows to use in my own plots—the ability got me through many long sermons. But I became…See More
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Liz Alexander replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"Awesome. :D Ironically, I still haven't watched all of it! My husband and I are -so- back-logged with anime we need to watch that it's ridiculous! Especially now that Netflix has decided to offer a lot of it…"
Kathleen Kern replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"BTW LA Howard, I did buy a copy of Genshiken and watch it. Couldn't get theme song of the faux series within a series out of my head for a long time.
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Kathleen Kern replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"Thanks! I realized at one point that since the character was riffing on Blood+ and Samurai Champloo, and had almost no understanding of Japanese culture and language, it was appropriate for her to enter "whatever" into Google…"
Suzanne Linn Kamata replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"Maybe I'm too late to respond to this, but I live in Japan and I speak Japanese. Maybe the closest thing to "whatever" that I can think of for this situation would be "nandemo ii."
"Ittai" means…"
Kathleen Kern commented on the blog post 'Do You Know An "Invisible Woman"? Because We Want to Meet Her.'
"Spike Darbyfield had been born Maeyken Elizabeth Janzen, and her sister Margarethe Christina Janzen—both getting their names from 16th century Anabaptist martyrs. Spike told people variously that she had been raised in a violent…"
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I stayed up until midnight on January 23, because the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award opened on 12:01 am on the 24th. I was too wired to sleep afterwards. Someone offered me help on my "pitch" at the CreateSpace writer's community, in the hours leading up to the contest, which made me totally second-guess what I was doing. She suggested to substitute "loves" for "emotionally invests" ( as in my main character emotionally invests in only two things: her sister and higher end Japanese anime). …See More
Kathleen Kern replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"I realized in the end that the point was that my main character would look up "whatever" on Google translate, rather than actually knowing what the semantic equivalent is.
But I'm definitely going to see if I can incorporate…"
Liz Alexander replied to the discussion 'Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?'
"I think that it depends on the situation in Japanese. Their culture isn't quite as sarcastic as ours.
The only thing I can think of is "Itai!" which roughly translates to "no way!", but without knowing…"
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I hate it when I get like this
This is my Facebook status for today:Kathleen Kern is in that obsessive staring-at-manuscript-wondering-whether-contest-officials-will-disqualify-it-for-minor-formatting-errors phase. Will listing the CPT Histories make her seem professional or insular? What if the readers don't like her main character because she has a chip on her shoulder? What if religious readers struggling to incorporate secular loved ones into their lives is just too…See More
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In response to my friend's suggestion, I developed a denoumente in which Margie, the character kidnapped in Iraq, writes e-mails to various characters after her release from captivity, interspersed with headlines from newspapers covering her speaking tour. Also developed back cover text for the one-cut-above-lame fan fiction that Marcus and Spike wrote. I was aiming for bad fantasy fiction (or even good fantasy marketed badly): "Text of book jacket from Retreat of the Elf Princess When…See More
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Any She-writers who know Japanese out there?
A character in my novel is obsessed with high-end Japanese anime. I am looking for the Japanese translation of "whatever" in the sense it is used by young people when they are annoyed or exasperated. Using Google translate I came up with どのような , どちみち, or 何等. But of course, Japanese-speaking young people might use a semantic equivalent that's entirely different. Would appreciate the help!See More
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- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Books
* Novel, Where Such Unmaking Reigns, selected as finalist in Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize contest 2001, won Peacewriting Award from Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology, 2003.
* When It Hurts to Live, Faith and Life Press, 1994
* We Are the Pharisees, Herald Press, 1995.
* In Harms Way: A History of Christian Peacemaker Teams, Cascade Books, 2009
* As Resident Aliens: Christian Peacemaker Teams in the West Bank, 1995-2005, Cascade Books, 2010
Book Chapters
• “From Haiti to Hebron with a Brief Stop in Washington, DC,” From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding. Eds. Cynthia Sampson and John Paul Lederach. Oxford University Press, 2000.
• “The Human Cost of Cheap Cellphones,” A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption. Ed. Steven Hiatt. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
• “Christus Victor and the Preoccupation with the Concrete in the Work of Christian Peacemaker Teams,” The Work of Jesus Christ in Anabaptist Perspective: Essays in Honor of J. Denny Weaver, eds. Alain Epp Weaver and Gerald J. Mast. Cascadia Publishing House, 2008.
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Mostly, but not exclusively, faith-based publications
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- I have
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- No
- My professional associations:
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
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What I would do if I had a Sabbatical
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:46am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Everytime I get an e-mail from She Writes, I sigh heavily, because I really wish I had the time to be thoroughly engaged with it. But it my work with a human rights organization, I spend most of the day responding to e-mails and editing releases that come in from our projects in the field. I also have an eye condition which makes working more than 8 hours on the computer extremely painful.
So I'm looking for a Sabbatical, preferably one that would be revenue-neutral for my…
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Where the sacred has met the profane in my fiction-writing life: The story behind my novel, Because the Angels
by Kathleen Kern
In 2008, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in some higher-end Japanese anime series, to the point that I began spinning stories in my head with the series’ characters. I had done similar story-making as a child, taking the characters…
I hate it when I get like this
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This is my Facebook status for today:
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Posted on January 20, 2011 at 6:50am 0 Comments 0 Likes
In response to my friend's suggestion, I developed a denoumente in which Margie, the character kidnapped in Iraq, writes e-mails to various characters after her release from captivity, interspersed with headlines from newspapers covering her speaking tour. Also developed back cover text for the one-cut-above-lame fan fiction that Marcus and Spike wrote. I was aiming for bad fantasy fiction (or even good fantasy marketed badly):
"Text of book jacket from Retreat of the…
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- At 5:19pm on June 21, 2010,
Kamy Wicoff said… - Hi there -- just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally (or at least virtually) to our first-ever She Writes Washington D.C. meetup, celebrating our first-anniversary! We are so grateful to the event's organizer, Ananda Leeke, for taking a risk and stepping up to host. I hope you will support her and bring yourself and other women who write (no need for them to be members) to the Washington D.C. gathering. At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Ananda here.
- At 9:12am on March 2, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - Welcome to the Novelist – Struggling or Not group, Kathleen. You might jump in by telling us what you’re working on in the “Show Me Your Novel and I’ll Show You Mine” discussion.
-Meg
- At 5:14pm on February 27, 2010, Meg Waite Clayton said…
- Welcome to She Writes, Kathleen, from a fellow Bellwether Prize finalist! Hope you’ll enjoy the conversation here. Love to have you join us in the Novelists – Struggling or Not group.
Meg Waite Clayton
Novelist Group Moderator
www.megwaiteclayton.com
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