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Niteblade Issue #11: The Marionette

The new issue of Niteblade is up!

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Learning: Story by Robert McKee

Story by Robert McKee

Robert McKee’s screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his seminars, providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen.

(Read more at HarperCollins)

Listening: American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

American IV: The Man Comes Around
by Johnny Cash

Includes:

  • The Man Comes Around
  • Hurt
  • I Hung My Head
  • We’ll Meet Again

( Click to download from iTunes )

Viewing: A Knight’s Tale

A Knight's Tale A Knight’s Tale

Heath Ledger stars as William Thatcher, a low-born 14th century squire who, in a fit of inspired spontaneity, replaces his deceased employer as the competitor at a jousting competition. Jousting is a pastime only permitted to knights, who are of noble birth, but Thatcher wins and decides to continue his new pursuits. With the help of his two fellow squire friends Wat and Roland, and none other than the gambling-addicted Geoffrey Chaucer, Thatcher has soon adopted a false identity and is winning one joust after another on his way to a championship in London.

( Click to read more at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca )

Reading: The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Birth House by Ami McKay The Birth House
by Ami McKay

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.

( Click to read more at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca )

Learning: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

If You Want to Write If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland

In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland sets forth not just a philosophy about how to write or how to create, but also about how to live. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland’s words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland’s simple wisdom.

( Click to read more at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca )

Happy Holidays!

Hope you all enjoy them ^_^

Nothing To Dread: A Niteblade Anthology

The second anthology for Niteblade Magazine is now available!

Nothing To Dread

A teenage couple who will never grow up, and married couples together too long. The epitome of beauty, and a dream of dragons. A unique Christmas tree, and the secret behind the Clauses’ immortality.

Seen in with a not-quite-mad hatter, and out with a wish for the dawn, the tenth issue of Niteblade brings back some of the year’s favourites. Along with tales based on an image by Marge Simon, this collection of stories and poems plays around the edges of naughty and nice.

The anthology is available both in paperback and PDF.

I’m biased, of course, but I think it’s a great collection ^_^

Day Thirty End Counts

Project One

53,847 of 50,000 words

Project Two

25,075 of 25,000 words

Project Three

88 of 88 pages