The genre-jumping, world-hopping, mind-bending tour which is Six Degrees of Kool Books continues this week with yet another twist (if you’re new to this whole Six Degrees business, you can fill yourself in by reading this post). Last week, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to Gurgi and the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. She made it …
Yesterday I announced that my booktrack for Into the Vast was available and I wanted to share briefly my initial Booktrack results (for more on what Booktrack is, see my original post). Honestly, I didn’t expect a whole lot of response because it was more or less an experiment. But I’ve been thrilled by the amount of …
Today I have a really cool announcement I’d like to share with you. As of today, the booktrack for Into the Vast is now available! What’s a booktrack, you ask? No, it’s not a place where books race around a course at dizzying speeds to see who’s the winner. It’s something much much cooler (though a book race would …
I’ve been reading a wonderful book lately, An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis. Here’s a great quote on art from the book. The first demand any work of art makes on us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such surrender, …
Ok, here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Bring out the karaoke lights and the dancing bear, it’s time for the number one song on my “Songs to Write to” list! I mentioned in one of the comments to an earlier post how much I love the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, but how the music …
Last week for Six Degrees of Kool Books we had two great books featured, Heidi, which J.L. Mbewe wrote about and The Rainbow Garden, which Jenelle Schmidt discussed. While I’ve not read either of them, they both sound like wonderful books and I hope I will be able to read them one day. Of the two, Heidi was the one I …
My second favorite song to write to is probably at least as obscure as the last one, if not more so. Although it has a connection to an actual movie soundtrack, it is a unique arrangement that wasn’t in the movie. Making things even more unusual, I first discovered this song via the youtube video for it. …
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a terribly slow reader. Even though I’ve always loved stories, I was a late bloomer when it came to actually reading books. On the flip side, while I may not break any records for speed reading I tend to have a pretty high retention rate for what I’ve read. So …
