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The Complete Works of Lovecraft is my big summer project. I can only read it during daylight hours because I get frightened easily.
Other than that, a lot of pulp. Supposed Crimes back catalog, Dick Francis, some YA apocalypse (I'm not ashamed!)
I have a big stack of Christian and atheist apologists to get through, but lol. It may just sit there on my desk. I see you Bertrand Russell. You don't own me!
Other than that, a lot of pulp. Supposed Crimes back catalog, Dick Francis, some YA apocalypse (I'm not ashamed!)
I have a big stack of Christian and atheist apologists to get through, but lol. It may just sit there on my desk. I see you Bertrand Russell. You don't own me!
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(view spoiler)[Sure! They live happily ever after... Heh, just kidding.
Sophia moves into Leah's tiny New York apartment.
Sophia is picked up as the young ingenue lead for a cop show. It's tentatively called "Gun and Badge." Very standard, Blindspot/Blacklist/Cold Case of the week. She gets involved in a new social group made up of her co-workers. Shooting television is very artificial. She doesn't connect well to the material. Her own feelings bleed into the scenes.
Meanwhile, Leah is doing an Off-Off-Off Broadway Shakespeare show in Long Island. I forget which one. King Lear? The train ride to and from work every day is long and gives her time to brood. She's beginning to accept that she'll never be a mega star. She's not sure what she and Sophia are doing. Etc. Her ex, Grace, is her co-star. This gives them space to work out some issues.
So Leah's arc is about "learning to adult" while Sophia's is about "learning what art IS" and it climaxes in the airing of the first episode of Gun and Badge, which is more than the sum of its parts. And the associated after party, where Sophia and Leah realize they contrast and complement each other as a couple. Things are going to be just fine, and it's all very splendidly New York.
I don't know if you read my other Broadway fiction. Much of it is on A03, I'm working on putting the rest up there.
The television/art motif I played with in my failed NaNoWriMo this year, though it was more based on the behind the scenes drama of the Good Wife. My upcoming novel, Adieu Warm Sunshine, has a dancer main character, but that's really just an excuse to snark on bad theater and only hints at the existential issue of what art (dance especially) means in a dark, chaotic, violent world.
Anyway, thanks for asking. :) It's wonderful to hear people like my novel. (hide spoiler)]
Sophia moves into Leah's tiny New York apartment.
Sophia is picked up as the young ingenue lead for a cop show. It's tentatively called "Gun and Badge." Very standard, Blindspot/Blacklist/Cold Case of the week. She gets involved in a new social group made up of her co-workers. Shooting television is very artificial. She doesn't connect well to the material. Her own feelings bleed into the scenes.
Meanwhile, Leah is doing an Off-Off-Off Broadway Shakespeare show in Long Island. I forget which one. King Lear? The train ride to and from work every day is long and gives her time to brood. She's beginning to accept that she'll never be a mega star. She's not sure what she and Sophia are doing. Etc. Her ex, Grace, is her co-star. This gives them space to work out some issues.
So Leah's arc is about "learning to adult" while Sophia's is about "learning what art IS" and it climaxes in the airing of the first episode of Gun and Badge, which is more than the sum of its parts. And the associated after party, where Sophia and Leah realize they contrast and complement each other as a couple. Things are going to be just fine, and it's all very splendidly New York.
I don't know if you read my other Broadway fiction. Much of it is on A03, I'm working on putting the rest up there.
The television/art motif I played with in my failed NaNoWriMo this year, though it was more based on the behind the scenes drama of the Good Wife. My upcoming novel, Adieu Warm Sunshine, has a dancer main character, but that's really just an excuse to snark on bad theater and only hints at the existential issue of what art (dance especially) means in a dark, chaotic, violent world.
Anyway, thanks for asking. :) It's wonderful to hear people like my novel. (hide spoiler)]
Jenna
Thanks for this! Little Disquietude sits happily on my Favorites shelf, and it's lovely to have an even happier-ever-after for characters I so thoroug
Thanks for this! Little Disquietude sits happily on my Favorites shelf, and it's lovely to have an even happier-ever-after for characters I so thoroughly enjoyed meeting.
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Jan 05, 2016 10:56AM
Jan 05, 2016 10:56AM
C.E. Case
My book, Adieu Warm Sunshine, definitely has its Roots (zing!) in Person of Interest, based on Shaw and the marvel of Sarah Shahi, with a bit of Life thrown in. This will not be apparent to anyone reading the book, sadly. What started as fanfic has turned into a weird Broadway mishmash.
C.E. Case
(WTF K.) Talia/Ivanova. That's just such an iconic part of my youth. Ivanova was my first gay role model, it's canon, and it's a dark, bleak story. Glinda/Elphaba is great and I love them, but they're much more limited characters. They're fun, even when heartbreaking. Talia/Ivanova is something... more.
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