Song playing right now on my playlist: “Monday Morning” Fleetwood Mac
Writing and the Writing Life:
- Jami Gold on Cliffhangers: Not Just for the End of a Book. And while we’re on hooks, Jody Hedlund also had a post this week on the subject: 4 Ways to Hook Your Readers & Keep Them Wanting More
- Kat Latham on Why does an agent have to love your novel before they can sell it?
- Conference season is in full swing. The agents at the Knight Agency started a series of posts: The Dos and Don’ts of Writers’ Conferences: Part 1
- Agent Janet Reid also had some good advice this week: Rules for Writers-Get Ahead of the Curve(ball coming at you)
Ada Lovelace:
- Want to really understand the power and importance of Lovelace and Babbage’s work? Watch this great video giving the background and also plans to build the Analytical Engine.
Browncoats:
- If you’d like to see a Serenity LEGO model crafted by LEGO, sign up here. Less than 900 votes needed to make this a reality!
- Have you seen Avengers yet?? I can’t wait to get some Joss Whedon goodness. Am going today if I can…
- Did anyone else catch Nathan Fillion live tweeting Out of Gas and Ariel last Sunday? It was really cool, but distracting, as I was doing word sprints at the time. Plus it was making me sad hearing him talk of his love of the show.
- for some Whedon weirdness, check out Whedon as Bathroom Coach (h/t the Nerdist):
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pyuFfKPCvY]
In Geekdom:
- check out what the instructions are on Google Maps for the walking option, if you type in directions for The Shire to Mordor
- And I’ll leave you with this:
Lovely group of links, as always!
Thanks Kate!
You’re welcome but I must say…the link to Whedon as bathroom coach brings up the Serentiy Legos thing. Shame cause I was so looking forward to that. Lovely Storm Troopers photo though. 🙂
oops! Thanks for letting me know! Fixed it, and embedded it this time….
Thanks for the links! Saw Avengers today and LOVED it:) Do you subscribe to the comic/movie/TV blog http://biffbampop.com/
It’s totally awesome & they’re always giving away stuff:)
OMG, I just got back like 10 minutes ago and I can’t even say enough about that movie! Holy moly! Just tweeted this: “If I was a directr wanting to make a superhero movie, I’d set my camera down, get on my knees, bow down to Whedon & say ‘u win’ #theavengers”
Hi Angela,
I enjoy your blog and find the friday mashups incredibly useful. I nominated you for the versatile blogger award. Good luck with your writing and have fun with the award if you so choose.
http://sabrinagarie.com/2012/05/06/versatile-blogger-award/
Sabrina
Thanks for the links, Angela! I’m starting to love seeing posts from your blog in my inbox. 🙂 Now I’m off to check out the new conference posts at the Knight Agency’s site… 🙂
Wow. Um…fyi, the use of two smilies in a comment was totally unintentional. hehehee
I love smilies!! I’m glad you’re enjoying my posts!