The reading from the other night is live and on-line.
It's long. I read the entire story of "God Box," as well as part of the WIP that I'm posting on WattPad. But, if you make it to very end, you'll be rewarded with my squee about Attack on Titan and Free! anime and my secret name on AO3.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Well.. THAT was a Surprising Success....
'll tell you no lies.
I was scared to death that last nights' reading at Dreamhaven was going to be a bust. Even, so I was determined to make the best of it. I brought along several copies of King David & the Spiders of Mars and planned to read "God Box," my science fictional Biblical horror retelling of the"golden hemorrhoids" story from Judges. I even took my laptop along in case there was more than me and Eric (the coordinator) and I had extra time to read from my WIPs. I got all dressed up. I wore tie. I left early (early enough to stop for coffee, even.)
Pre-show jitters (with cat):
And I kind of held my breath, expecting... crickets.
But... lo and behold, people came.
Lots of people came.
There was hardly an empty seat in the house and someone brought a very professional video camera (on a tripod and everything), so there may be a YouTube video of the reading at some point. I gave the guy my card, so when/if it goes up, I asked him to let me know. I'll be sure to link to it here (and anywhere else you're likely to go looking for me.) But, of course, he was one of the first people to arrive, when all the seats were still empty, and we joked that he should splice in the ComicCon crowd where everyone is shouting, "Loki, Loki" and try to make it sound like "Lyda, Lyda" and I even raised my hands and said, "SAY MY NAME!"
I doubt he'll really do that, but it was fun to imagine, especially since I was still terrified I'd be filmed reading to an empty room.
But, so the reading went REALLY well. As you know Bob, I'm a bit of an extrovert, so the more people, the higher my energy level.
Did I mention that I'd also stopped for coffee?
Yeah, it could be... "interesting," this film, but, honestly? I had a BLAST. I even read from Tate's WIP, the sequel to Precinct 13 (and mostly didn't blush or mumble over the especially dirty bits), and and let people know that they could read a bit more (and the updates as I post them) on WattPad.
So... yeah... a surprising success.
Plus afterwards there's a tradition at the Speculations readings of going out for pizza after, and I can't even remember the last time I has as much fun as I did last night. A bunch of us were still there as they were turning off lights around us and we even stood around in the cold wind continuing to talk until almost 11:00 pm. ON A SCHOOL NIGHT!
I have to thank everyone who showed, because I... I *really* thought this was going to suck so much. So if you were there last night and reading this: THANK YOU. Big time. And, if you missed, well, fingers crossed the video will go up soon, and you can see what I'm liked hopped up on crowd and caffeine.
I was scared to death that last nights' reading at Dreamhaven was going to be a bust. Even, so I was determined to make the best of it. I brought along several copies of King David & the Spiders of Mars and planned to read "God Box," my science fictional Biblical horror retelling of the"golden hemorrhoids" story from Judges. I even took my laptop along in case there was more than me and Eric (the coordinator) and I had extra time to read from my WIPs. I got all dressed up. I wore tie. I left early (early enough to stop for coffee, even.)
Pre-show jitters (with cat):
And I kind of held my breath, expecting... crickets.
But... lo and behold, people came.
Lots of people came.
There was hardly an empty seat in the house and someone brought a very professional video camera (on a tripod and everything), so there may be a YouTube video of the reading at some point. I gave the guy my card, so when/if it goes up, I asked him to let me know. I'll be sure to link to it here (and anywhere else you're likely to go looking for me.) But, of course, he was one of the first people to arrive, when all the seats were still empty, and we joked that he should splice in the ComicCon crowd where everyone is shouting, "Loki, Loki" and try to make it sound like "Lyda, Lyda" and I even raised my hands and said, "SAY MY NAME!"
I doubt he'll really do that, but it was fun to imagine, especially since I was still terrified I'd be filmed reading to an empty room.
But, so the reading went REALLY well. As you know Bob, I'm a bit of an extrovert, so the more people, the higher my energy level.
Did I mention that I'd also stopped for coffee?
Yeah, it could be... "interesting," this film, but, honestly? I had a BLAST. I even read from Tate's WIP, the sequel to Precinct 13 (and mostly didn't blush or mumble over the especially dirty bits), and and let people know that they could read a bit more (and the updates as I post them) on WattPad.
So... yeah... a surprising success.
Plus afterwards there's a tradition at the Speculations readings of going out for pizza after, and I can't even remember the last time I has as much fun as I did last night. A bunch of us were still there as they were turning off lights around us and we even stood around in the cold wind continuing to talk until almost 11:00 pm. ON A SCHOOL NIGHT!
I have to thank everyone who showed, because I... I *really* thought this was going to suck so much. So if you were there last night and reading this: THANK YOU. Big time. And, if you missed, well, fingers crossed the video will go up soon, and you can see what I'm liked hopped up on crowd and caffeine.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Your Wednesday MangaKast
If you want to hear what my son and I sound like first thing in the morning, here we are again bringing you the latest, breaking news in Bleach and Toriko: http://mangakast.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/a-cookie-for-kenpachi-or-our-third-podcast/
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
An Experiment
I've decided to just jump into this kind of crazy, new world of self-publishing/social media, and so I'm writing the sequel to PRECINCT 13 in serial fashion on a site called WattPad, which allows for quite a bit of interaction between the reader and the writer--kind of like an original fiction version of archive of our own.
So, if you'd like to read the sequel AS I WRITE IT, check out the first installment here: http://www.wattpad.com/43223189-unjust-cause-part-1?d=ud
PLEASE let me know what you think of it! I'll let you know here when new stuff goes up there, but the plan is to try to post once a week.
So, if you'd like to read the sequel AS I WRITE IT, check out the first installment here: http://www.wattpad.com/43223189-unjust-cause-part-1?d=ud
PLEASE let me know what you think of it! I'll let you know here when new stuff goes up there, but the plan is to try to post once a week.
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