Friday, March 30, 2007
 
Di Mon and Ranar Tribute by Mel - Okal Rel Universe

A Di Mon and Ranar love picture by Mel, is up on the ORU gallery.

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Art Wanted ad by Peter Houston to run in Black Petals

Ta dah! We have the final version for the ad to be run in the Black Petals magazine for recruiting artists to the Kaleidoscope Illustrated online graphic novel which will feature Amel during his flight from court "between books".


Design by Peter Houston. Art featured by Yukari Yamamoto, Michelle Milburn and Brianna Thomas.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Poetry from an imaginary island
 
At one point recently, Lynda and I were talking about the Demish poetry anthology that she has planned, and I was telling her about Emily Brontë's Gondal poetry. Gondal was an island imagined by Emily and Anne Brontë, which remained vital in Emily's imagination until close to her death. Some of her best-known poems are actually written in the voice of one of the lords, queens, fugitives, rebels, lovers, or mystics of Gondal. Alas, the prose literature of Gondal no longer exists, unlike the tales of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë's shared kingdom, Angria. Forties scholar Frances Ratchford stitched the poetry in to a single epic narrative in Gondal's Queen by interpreting poetry written under three different personae as being about one character.

There's a copy of the Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (1908) in the Internet Archive, which I found courtesy of the BrontëBlog. The poems have been included in the form in which they were edited by Emily for their first book of poetry (which they paid to publish and which sold two copies), by Charlotte for later publication and by the volume's editor Clement Shorter - ie, bereft of Gondal annotations. The British Library on-line images collection has images of some of the Brontë manuscripts, including the first page of Emily's Gondal poems notebook. Some of the poems are posted on-line here. An article by Michael JA Howe about the Brontës' juvenilia (mostly Angria) is on-line at Fathom.

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First fuzzy try at a YouTube movie on the Okal Rel topic

First crack at doing a movie for YouTube on an Okal Rel topic. Rather fuzzier than I expected. Sigh. So much to learn, so little time.

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Brianna T.'s space on Portfolios.com includes Amel sketches


Brianna's space on www.portfolios.com includes sketches of Amel.

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Masters of Digital Media - Soul Touch


Sent home a set of Okal Rel universe books with Christa Ovenell of the exciting new Masters of Digital Media program just starting up at the Great Northern Way Campus - an joint manifestation of UBC, Emily Carr, BCIT and SFU. Christa came to UNBC to talk about the program. I am keeping my fingers crossed that there might be some creative outcomes of the connection, or at least that we might achieve soul touch with one or two new people if the book are shared around on campus. :-)

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Thursday, March 22, 2007
 
Sketch of Di Mon by Mel - Detail from


It's been a while! But Mel has inspired me to start putting up pictures on the gallery page for the saga, again. Pleased to add her sketch of Di Mon.

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Monday, March 19, 2007
 
Righteous Anger news and interviews on Edge Site March 2007


Pleased to see the Righteous Anger page on on the Edge website getting dressed up with commentaries.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007
 
The Okal Rel Universe makes an appearance at a Broad Universe reading thanks to the first expansion!

Hi Jay Lake. Nice to meet you saycestsay, I've added you to my friends list on livejournal (isn't social computing fun). Thanks for pointing this Flickr picture out to me, Alison. Mucho thanks Jerry and the incomparable Bobbie DuFault. :-) Circled the box because I think that might be the very same empty orange box that I shipped books and stuff to Bobbie in, for her to use as she sees fit as a member of the First Expansion who performs the author function for me in places where I cannot be to do so.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007
 
P.G. Citizen Photograph by David Mah of book launch for Righteous Anger, book #2 in the Okal Rel Saga by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Author Lynda Williams, with book, surrounded by members of the UNBC Re-Enactment Club (Steve James, Ron Mallett, Paul Clark and Phil Clark). March 08, 2007 [PDF Version]


EN GARDE - Author Lynda Williams, along with members of the UNBC Re-Enactment Club (Steve James, Ron Mallett, Paul Clark and Phil Clark) kick off the release of Williams' book Righteous Anger, a science fiction novel set in the Okal Rel universe. The book launch was at the Prince George Public Library on Thursday night (March 8, 1007). P.G. Citizen photo by David Mah.

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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Technical note
 
I have tackled the problem that, although Technorati seems to know of Reality Skimming's existence, none of the posts are being indexed. Prompted by the keys to getting indexed page, and with the help of Dave Taylor's entry on permalinks, I have added the rss feed link to the header and (re)inserted permalinks into the footer of each post. Now I am posting, by way of a prompt. With Technorati in the label. Hellooooo Technorati!

And the other thing I've done is turn off the Google search bar.

Thanks Alison! The task of getting rid of that dysfunctional google search bar had us stumped. And for the other stuff. (ljw)

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Righteous Anger Launch in P.G. Citizen

 
Righteous Anger launch on Robert Budde's Culture Mill




Just discovered this post on Dr. Robert Budde's Culture Mill, a blog about literary and artsy happenings in Northern B.C. Thank you Rob!

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
 
Review of Righteous Anger by Elizabeth Woods on Amazon.ca 2007


Delighted and honored by Elizabeth Woods' review of Righteous Anger, on Amazon.ca. Click title or image above for full review.

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Righteous Anger appears on amazon.com for pre-orders
Righteous Anger, slated for a spring release in the U.S., has showed up in the "pre-order" state on amazon.com. (It is already available for ordering on
amazon.ca)

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
 
MYTHSPRING review on Asimov's by Paul Di Filippo


Pleased to see my story mentioned in a review of Julie Czerneda's Mythspring anthology, on the Asimov's Magazine site. (Click image for the site, and scroll down, way-y-y down.)


Found it via a post on Canadian SF author Mark Ladouceur's blog, which was brought to my attention by google alert.

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Monday, March 05, 2007
 
Banner - Endeavour Award


List of books received for the Endeavour Award









Lovely to see Righteous Anger in such good company on the list of books received for consideration for the Endeavour Award -- oh, wait, those are the COMPETITORS. Gulp. Okay, I'm still happy. :-) Ack rel and all that.


PS for a complete list of the books on the list click the banner above or the title of this blog entry.


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Praise for Courtesan Prince from Honey
 

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:18:25 +0000, Honey Giroday wrote:
> Hi Lynda,
> I just wanted to send you a quick note about one of your books, The
> Courtesan Prince... I have
> to say I was presently suprised when the book entirely sucked my
> attention in.  I haven't read about a universe so interesting as
> when I read Dune, or the Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin
> for quite a while, and your book definitely builds an interesting
> scene and story.  Just wanted to say good work!!

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