The Auralia Thread Today's Favorite - Spooky Places, Memorable Pubs This weekend, I discovered a journal that I kept in college. In those pages, I wrote brief descriptions of my favorite big-screen moments, much the way the critics who write for FilmComment have done in their annual year-end issue. It was inspiring to read back through pages of pages of
The Auralia Thread Looking Closer Breaks New Ground in September In September, I'm rearranging my weekly schedule to find a better balance. Friends have begun to point out that I'm wearing myself out. If I keep up this pace of office work, review writing, and book writing, I'm headed for serious trouble with my
The Auralia Thread Reader Mail - 6/4: Pocorn is evil; Cyndere's cover art; Derrickson on gradual bedazzlement; Bob on the iTunes lecture from Julie: What do you eat at the movies? MY RESPONSE: I try not to eat while I'm watching. I don't like popcorn. It gets stuck in my teeth, and then I'm annoyed throughout the movie. Plus, it's noisy. I especially don&
The Auralia Thread Auralia's eColors! This week, Auralia's Colors became an eBook! Do you use eBooks? I'm curious. Never tried the stuff myself...
The Auralia Thread World to Be Invaded by Half-Human Monsters? No, this picture has nothing to do with my upcoming sequel to Auralia's Colors, Cyndere's Midnight. Cyndere's Midnight is, however, a "beauty and the beast story." My version has a whole bunch of beasts. Beastmen, more specifically. Sinister human/animal hybrids that
The Auralia Thread Catapulting Auralia's Colors Many thanks to reviewer Jason Panella for this review of Auralia's Colors at Catapult.
The Auralia Thread Good Medicine by Way of Paris and Taiwan: Thank You, Hou Hsiao-Hsien! I may have the flu, I may have a voice like a gravel-crusher and a fever of 101, but I'm still here, propped up in bed editing Cyndere's Midnight. It may have had something to do with my diet of aspirin, soup, hot tea, cough medicine,
The Auralia Thread Update from New Orleans It's a warm, sunny, breezy day here in New Orleans. And I'm enjoying it immensely. I had a tasty, huge meal of crawfish (four different ways), crab (stuffed), and barbecue shrimp pasta last night at Deanie's Seafood. Last night's stroll down Bourbon
The Auralia Thread Big News for Auralia Coming Soon Auralia's Colors is going into its second printing, and I received big news yesterday about an unexpected development for this book and the next. I'll have details as soon as they're official... In the meantime, if you liked the previous cover design better, grab
The Auralia Thread What's Your Favorite Last Line of a Novel? Here's American Book Review with the 100 Best Last Last Lines from Novels. My personal favorite? "Frodo was alive but taken by the enemy." That line still sends chills down my spine when I read it. How could you not go on to read The Return
The Auralia Thread Auralia's Colors - A Second Printing, A New Look Auralia's Colors is coming back to bookstores in April as it enters its second printing. It has a revised cover. And it will come with a preview chapter from Cyndere's Midnight. If you go looking for it in Barnes and Noble in April, you may be
The Auralia Thread Back from Laity Lodge Laity Lodge is just as remote and beautiful as I was told. Anne and I enjoyed an inspiring weekend of food, conversation, reading, and movies with dear old friends and inspiring new friends. I spoke about that turbulent territory where faith and filmmaking intersect, and then I shared two films
The Auralia Thread Beauty! Beauty! Beauty! Contrary to what some of the reviews have claimed, I am not writing The Auralia Thread to preach a message, to allegorize the Gospel, or to entertain. I wrote Auralia's Colors because it gave me a way to explore the powerful mystery of Beauty. Storytelling gives me a
The Auralia Thread Tonight: Auralia's Colors in Mill Creek TONIGHT (February 28) AT 7:00 p.m., I'll be reading from Auralia's Colors at the Mill Creek Library. And you're invited. Yes, there will be copies for sale. Yes, admission is free. And yes, there will be a Q&A where you
The Auralia Thread The Other Journal on Auralia's Colors J. Paul Friedenmaker talked with me about Auralia's Colors , and it all ended up posted at The Other Journal!
The Auralia Thread Culture.ish discovers Auralia's Colors Thanks to reviewer Jason Panella for his thoughtful look at Auralia's Colors at Culture.ish.
The Auralia Thread Mill Creek, WA: Here Comes Auralia When I was a kid, my idea of a great Friday night on the town involved going to the library and assembling a stack of storybooks so immense that my mom had to help me carry them to the counter. So it's a thrill to be invited again
The Auralia Thread Greenman Review! At the distinguished fantasy-lit review site called The Greenman Review, Matthew Winslow has turned in a review of Auralia's Colors!
The Auralia Thread "Through a Screen Darkly" is One Year Old It's been an interesting week. On Tuesday, I submitted Cyndere's Midnight, the sequel to Auralia's Colors, to the editors at WaterBrook Press. There's still some "trimming" and editing to do, but it's almost ready to go. Time flies
The Auralia Thread On Monday, I'll finish it. In September, it's yours. On Monday, February 4, I'll be finished with my revisions for Cyndere's Midnight. And then, the countdown begins. Let me again answer what is bound to be the most commonly asked question: It's pronounced like the word "cinder." PRE-ORDER HERE!
The Auralia Thread Today: Auralia at SPU! "Food for Thought" You're invited to bring a brown-bag lunch into the Seattle Pacific University Library where I'll be reading from Auralia's Colors, talking about the series, and answering questions. Copies will be available for purchase. When: TODAY (Thursday, January 31), 12:
The Auralia Thread Auralia Around the World! Auralia's Colors has been inspiring some interesting responses from readers. Today, I received a package today from Vicki, an Auralia's Colors reader in Manila. Vicki works in Manila, but she was reading Auralia's Colors while traveling to a scientific conference in Taipei. This is
The Auralia Thread TitleTrakk interview Kevin Lucia at TitleTrakk asked me some questions about Auralia's Colors. Like these: * I see from your bio that you wrote your first fantasy story at the age of seven. Would you say then that having your first novel published is the culmination of a life long dream?
The Auralia Thread Name a Character in Cyndere's Midnight! So, there's this monster in Cyndere's Midnight, the sequel to Auralia's Colors... She's a nasty piece of work, like something that crawled out of The Dark Crystal or Pan's Labyrinth: eight arms, a parrot-like beak, and eyes like clusters of
