All Angie's character banners can be found on her JelloDVDs gallery on DeviantArt. Love the quotes she chose.

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"Angela's Wisdom", a short story in which a visiting alien interviews eight-year-old Angela about whether reading is obsolete, is podcast on AboutSF. The story, written by myself when Angela was 8 years old, was read for the pod cast by an 18-year-old Angela.

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Gina Tellez-McKee (reading Part 1: Courtesan Prince)

Mind Meld
I feel like I have had one:

"An ordinary person would get over it, but he's locked in perpetual crisis and the conflict between fear and love is paralyzing."

Yikes that's profound. That is where I am at in the C. Prince. I had to wait until I could really focus on your book . . . I warmed up with M. Atwood. I hope you take this as a compliment, the social content of your books reminds me of Heinlein.

Gina.

Margaret Haugen-Juniper (reading Part 4: Throne Price)

"Just finished Throne Price. One phrase: Oh my God!"

Angela Lott (Reading 1984 for school)

Reports a conversation with a Math teacher refuting the dark vision of Big Brother in 1984 with the more enlightened approach of arbiters in Reetion parts of the Okal Rel saga.

Dr. Neil Lettinga (theological/historian consultant advising me on Herver for Part 8: Gathering Storm and beyond)

One of the elements to be aware of in the case of conversions like this is the role that community plays in them. Herver needs to have ongoing conversations with people who think that commoners have souls. Amel is key, but let Herver seek out conversations with Reetions that reinforce his new beliefs, and maybe even have him run into the animal-loving princess again in a different context. In real life people don't have this sort of transformation without finding ways to reinforce it in the people they like to be with and spend time with and have conversations with. His significant others should change as a result of his conversion. Amel is certainly a good start, as is Erien, given the outcome of their conversation. He should be curious about Reetions, and might just gain a Reetion friend in the next book or two ... one who, in turn, would be interested in his religious beliefs.

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Okal Rel ads featuring Angela's trivia questions appear in the online version of Tyler Clarke's Cutbanks - the Cutbanks Weekly Newsletter.

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Ques: What was Von's answer to Ann's question, "Are you sane?"

Answer: "I don't think so but it doesn't matter." (p. 291)

Image from a youtube episode of Mekan'stan, art by Brianna Thomas. Questions by Angela Lott.

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Today's Okal Rel Universe presentation: "The Creative Campfire of Science Fiction", will take place at 3:30 pm today in the beautiful Bentley Centre of the University of Northern B.C. Many, many thanks to the organizers, especially Dr. Robert Budde and Bridges convener Joanna Smythe; to the Bookstore in the person of manager Mardeana Berg; the awesome Barry Wong of copy services at UNBC; Publisher Brian Hades for putting books on a Greyhound for us last night; David Lott for taking the day off to help and wearing his Ann T-Shirt!; Jennifer Lott for helping me organize; performers Tegan, Holly, Jennifer and Mel for working up the role-play skit; Paul Strickland for organizing bios of Okal Rel contributors and supporters; Steph or Conrad for agreeing to video the event; Elizabeth Woods for organizing the readings by anthology authors on Saturday and Janet Marren, Community Outreach Librarian of the Prince George Public Library, for making the Saturday readings part of Bridges.

For more about the Bridges Festival celebrating community and the arts see:

• Bridges Poster


• Bridges Schedule

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The look of the cover for Part 5: Far Arena has changed. It is now brighter with a yellow-tinge to the inner ring the brings out more of the detail. My daughter Angela was shocked. She'd fallen for the original art and the portrayal of Erien against blue rather than yellow. We had that version on our fridge door for months. I'm sure the new look will grow on me. Hoping to have books in hand by Bridges Festival June 11, but if not I'm confident they will be available for a launch in Prince George later this summer. Haven't booked that date yet.

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My daughter Angela has been using the Okal Rel Universe website for her project in grade 11 computing class. She showed me some of the results today which look fabulous! She's got such a good eye for color. I love the "organic" look and the reds and browns in the background and headers. Certainly more fun to explore than my visually less interesting pages. I'll get more of it up in some form or another as she gets it done, maybe as an alternative means to explore? An online, webbish version of the "elevator speech". Michelle Milburn is working on re-doing the homepage for the live site which I hope to see starting to appear this summer, replacing just the homepage to start. Then slowly replacing subsequent pages.

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Just love this Saturday morning picture of my husband David Lott and our middle daughter Angela with the cat, Honey, in the background. Every Saturday morning we hold a crepe breakfast at our house for the family and any friends who drop by, followed by a reading. I read from what I'm working on. Guests read from their own work, or from favorite books. (Angie's friend Holly is currently regaling us with the adventures of Artemis Fowl.) It charges my rel-batteries for another busy week. :-)

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Readers for the Future have a new web page up. David Glenn Anderson is the ORU connection with them. I also web published my short story Angela's Wisdom through them. That was back when I was teaching computer science and Angela was struggling to learn to read. Now she's 16 and disappears for days at a time reading the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer. Delighted that she also likes the Okal Rel Universe stories, too.

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