The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer
May 14, 2012 by Ilsa · Leave a Comment
When my husband wants to drive me crazy, he reminds me that computers don’t live in our world. Instead, we live in theirs. I balk at that, but then I remember the irony of that last scene in The Social Network where Zuckerberg’s sitting at that computer, obsessively refreshing the screen every few seconds. Here, the invention [...]
Sticks and Stones . . . and the Kobayashi Maru
April 30, 2012 by Ilsa · 2 Comments
News flash: All of life revolves around Star Trek. Everything you ever needed to learn, you can learn from that show, and this is nowhere more self-evident than the (in)famous Kobayashi Maru scenario. For all you neophytes, let me briefly summarize: the Kobayashi Maru is a Starfleet computer simulation all cadets must take. The explicit [...]
Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books recommends DROWNING INSTINCT
April 18, 2012 by Ilsa · Leave a Comment
And a lovely review, it is. Gotta love that last line: Bick, Ilsa J. Drowning Instinct. Carolrhoda Lab, 2012 343p Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-7613-7752-8 17.95 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-7613-8726-8 12.95 R Gr. 9-12 When the policeman asks Jenna how she fell through the ice and nearly drowned in the lake near her teacher’s house, she won’t tell him. When he leaves [...]
The Undiscovered Country of Our Imaginings
April 16, 2012 by Ilsa · Leave a Comment
You remember Hamlet, right? That “to be or not to be” soliloquy? Or maybe you’re most familiar with its incarnation as the subtitle for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, where the evil Klingon General Chang, played with giddy abandon by Christopher Plummer, regales the Enterprise crew with more Shakespeare per frame than any previous [...]
March 2012 Recommended Reads, Listens and Looks
April 10, 2012 by Ilsa · 2 Comments
What? I was busy, okay? Writing and then the SHADOWS and ASHES cover reveals. Give me a break. Anyway, better late than never: READS Anthony, Lawrence; Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo. (St. Martin’s Griffin; 2008). Conservationist and Earth Organization founder Lawrence Anthony died in March at the age of 61. [...]
ASHES Gets a New Look–and SHADOWS, revealed!
April 2, 2012 by Ilsa · 24 Comments
As I mentioned last week, yesterday Mundie Moms hosted an exclusive cover reveal for both the new ASHES paperback (coming in August) and SHADOWS (due out 9/25/12). The lead-up was great fun–lots of tweeting, FBing, excited fans–and now I get to share these covers with the whole wide world. Be interested in what you think, [...]
SHADOWS, Revealed! . . . er . . . almost
March 26, 2012 by Ilsa · 6 Comments
I am cursed, and here’s why. I have this habit of falling in love with shows that last only one season or, sometimes, two. We’re talking series like My Own Worst Enemy in which a deliciously diabolical Christian Slater took Jekyll and Hyde to new levels; that last episode of Stargate Universe when everyone, except [...]
Just for Fun: Red-Tailed Hawk Cam
March 21, 2012 by Ilsa · Leave a Comment
These red-tailed hawks have been nesting above the Cornell Athletic Field for four years now, and there are now two eggs in that nest. Watch their progress! Very cool. Watch live streaming video from cornellhawks at livestream.com
Get Out Much?
March 19, 2012 by Ilsa · 8 Comments
I don’t know if other writers have noticed this, but hanging out with random people–say, at an event like the bar mitzvah I attended this past weekend in Philly–is even tougher than it used to be. Sure, we can chalk a lot of this up to the fact that these are all unrelated folks, coming [...]
To Blurb, or Not to Blurb…
March 12, 2012 by Ilsa · 2 Comments
Today, on ADR3NALIN3, my take on blurbs as a reader; as someone who’s had a book blurbed; and as someone who’s been asked to provide blurbs. My Sunday cake: I was doing taxes and so down in the mouth, I decided to do something bright and beautiful. The result? This amazingly moist and flavorful lemon-blueberry [...]
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