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Life Imitates Art

ByRachel August 19, 2009 0 Comments
This is too weird. I just read EON: DRAGONEYE REBORN by Alison Goodman about a girl posing as a boy to win a competition. Then today I stumbled on this Yahoo story. In Goodman's story, Eon and her master believe she can excel in the Dragoneye competition. But it's closed to girls, so they pass her off as a young boy. As they suspected, she wins the competition.  Throughout the book, others...

Resuscitating dormant pieces of the soul

ByRachel August 18, 2009 4 Comments
Last night and today I worked on the script for my graphic novel ON CAMPUS. I'd forgotten how much I love writing and drawing graphic stories. Every time I work on it, it's like a little piece of my soul comes out of hibernation, and I feel complete. I gave up cartooning in college because I was so busy.  As a post-grad aspiring to be an author, I worked mostly on my novel, since traditional...

Inspiring Book!

ByRachel August 17, 2009 0 Comments
I just finished BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS by Shannon Hale and it was simply inspiring! Not since THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL have I read through something so fast, just because I needed to find out what happens next. Great storytelling, fast-paced plot, likable characters, and a love story that doesn't writhe with stereotypes and sugar. This will certainly be the book club's next book after MELTING...

Book Club Preparations and a Shortage of Male YA Books

ByRachel August 15, 2009 1 Comment
Tonight I'm starting the curriculum for the Up and Writing Book Club. I'm a little sleepy, so much of this may not get done, but it'll at least be a start. I already have a book lined up for next month (I think--haven't read it yet, so it could turn out to be lame) but I want the month after next to be a YA fantasy geared more towards males, with a male protagonist. There's a shortage of those in...

The Obits

ByRachel August 14, 2009 4 Comments
by Rachel Heston Davis Krycek Rat Krycek the Rat, two-and-a-half, of Edwardsville, IL, died Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 at Hawthorne Animal Hospital after a courageous battle with neurological problems, encroaching senility, and an ornery cagemate. Born in early 2007, Krycek spent the first part of his life in Petco of Rockford, IL before being purchased by the Davis family and taken to Oregon, IL....