What's Up Wednesdays

[jana_denardo]

WHAT I'M READING Just finished Of Sun and Moon by Bryna Butler, a self-pubbed YA urban fantasy I bought at the Mothman festival a couple years ago. Turns out she was a student at the university I teach at. It wasn’t bad. The leading lady is an adaptation of a tooth fairy (giving that legend a twist).

Reading a lot of graphic novels and manga too, mostly Bleach (as the series comes to a close) and another reboot of Guardians of the Galaxy.


WHAT I'M WRITING I’m STILL editing Soldiers of the Sun my 1930s demon hunter story and not really writing anything. I’m almost done. Just two more chapters to go and I want to tweak some of the villains and send it in hopefully in a couple weeks.

I finished my first round of edits for my Advent Calendar (for Dreamspinner Press) story about Druids, The Light of Winter. It was the easiest edits I’ve had in ages. Most of them were more for the rest of the editorial staff going ‘yes this Welsh word is correct.’ Not the easiest language to deal with sometimes.
I’m busy thinking about my upcoming nano novel as well so soon I’ll actually be able to talk about what I’m writing again at long last.

WHAT INSPIRES ME RIGHT NOW Festivals! I’m a huge festival person (sadly I’m also a huge let’s buy things I don’t need from festival vendors person too). There are so many this time of year. I did miss the sternwheeler one. I think these could make for a fun setting for a story really.


WHAT ELSE I'VE BEEN UP TO Still no photos from the Steampunk Spectacle, sadly. Last weekend I went to see Murderdrome which might just be the world’s first roller derby slasher flick. It was at the Athena cinema in Athens (the very one I trashed in my novella, Triskelion, damn demons!) which serves locally sourced popcorn. Sweet. It was a benefit for the local roller derby team, the Hell Betties. They did ask me to join them but I’m far too far past my prime.

On Saturday I went to the Athens Paw Paw festival. Love paw paws. Wish I had a few trees to grow my own. It was a good day of drinking paw paw beer, eating paw paw strewn foods and buying things I don’t need but desperately want (and spawned a story idea in the process.). There was plenty of good music and Native American dancing as well. Fun Time

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Comments

[chris kenworthy (from livejournal.com)]

Hey there! I like the idea of a Welsh druids story! Great to hear from you again, looks like you've been busy!

See what I've been up to at http://kelworthfiles.wordpress.com/

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hope it goes over well. I'm not huge into contemporary lit so it was a stretch for me.

[whichclothes.livejournal.com]

I feel for the DSP editors. Your Advent story has Welsh, mine has Croatian. :-)

Kim Fielding

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

Hahaha oh man, they really did let themselves in for it when they made it holiday celebrations in other countries. My Croatian grandfathers never spoke the language so I'm not entirely sure how hard it is (even if I did take great grandma's first name).

Welsh is something else. And I threw in all the Druid terms too just for that extra added fun.

[miss cole (from livejournal.com)]

One of these days I may attempt to catch up on Bleach... when I am feeling particularly brave as I must be a few hundred chapters behind by now...

Have a great week!

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I'm so thankful the library has it or else I would have given up long ago.

Thanks you too