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My first chapbook, "Tourist Info," will be released with Alien Buddha Press on April 12. If you like what I draw, I think you'll like what I write too.
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**NOW AVAILABLE**
MY FIRST VISION WAS OF GABRIEL STANDING IN A FIRE by Joshua Edwards
These ten-word poems were composed during long walks in New York City, mostly while commuting between Morningside Heights and Clinton Hill. The language was gathered from the cityscape (signs, graffiti, stickers, etc.), in photographs, one word at a time in order of discovery, so that the subsequent word is closer to the walk’s destination than the prior. Edwards calls this type of poem a cortina.
A Ford-model vehicle sold primarily in the United Kingdom from 1962 until 1982, the Cortina was named after Cortina d’Ampezzo, a town in the Italian Alps. In a number of Romance languages, cortina means curtain, and it also echoes or is related to other words that evoke enclosure, law, love, obscurity, cooking, and servitude, which all seem relevant to the vocation or curse of poetry.
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Cover Reveal State of Mind
Isn’t that cover just divine? Watch here for more information. Link to come soon. (Cover design by the author herself.)
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#countdown to release#cover reveal#cover reveals#indie poets#Jennifer Elliott#Poetry#poetry announcement#poetry chapbook#poetry community#poetry is not dead#preorder#supporting indie authors#upcoming
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My latest chapbook, Morels, is out now from Voice Lux Press! It is available as an ebook for $3.
BIG, BIG thanks to the Voice Lux crew! They were a joy to work with.
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Chapter 16 Review Syndicate: The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Cover of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
The most recent book I tackled for review is author Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. Henry has authored 16 novels, and although I’ve only read Flora, it’s clear she’s a master of historical fiction. Flora is a great read for those who love books and being around them, as the protagonist of this novel…
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Happy Spring! I've just released my newest quarterly chapbook, Habitat Restoration: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Get Started.
Habitat loss is the single biggest cause of species becoming endangered or extinct. Thankfully, we can help our local animals, plants, and other beings by restoring their habitat–even in our own backyards, gardens, and porches! Get the basics of what you need to know about:
What habitat restoration is
Why it’s important
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Whether you’re an experienced gardener wanting to grow native plants, or a nature-lover trying to make your corner of the world a little better place, this book will get you started on your own small-scale habitat restoration project.
You can get the ebook for free right now by signing up for my monthly email newsletter at https://rebeccalexa.com/news-updates/. Or if you want to purchase a paperback, it's available for just $6 plus shipping at https://rebeccalexa.com/habitat-restoration/
(Reblogs okay and encouraged--thank you!)
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the chosen's earring & the celestial spyglass (idle champions)
with idle champions releasing gale as a hero and revealing his age and alignment, there are also a bunch of items relating to him:
many of them have very sweet and cute descriptions, like a ball that gale tried to get tara to play with, lifting his spirits even tho tara didn't see the sense in it, or the collection of waterdhavian chapbooks that gale is glad are written at least in full sentences, the crystal ball used for divination as well as a helpful tool for shaving - but what caught my attention are two things that are more serious than the others:
The Chosen's Earring
A symbol of Mystra's faith in me. Former faith, I suppose...
i found the wording here extremely interesting. there is a popular fanon theory that the earring is gale's focus, and it very well could still be.
yet the wording makes me thing that it's not something that he got for himself, but that it was something given to him. by mystra. a symbol to mark her newest chosen. a gift, but also expectations.
while idle champions is of course only a mobile game and we should probably take everything here with a big grain of salt, it's still interesting to me.
the other item that caught my eye was the celestial spyglass and its description:
Celestial Spyglass
I like gazing at the heavens. To remember. And to forget.
this immediately stood out to me because it reminded me of gale's alternate astral sea / boat scene in act 3:
Gale: Quite the view, isn't it? The Outer Planes are a place of potential, somtimes overwhelming possibility.
I conjured this illusion often during my confinement in Waterdeep.
An escape for the mind where there was none for the body. It was easier to stare at the celestial abyss than recognise the emptiness within myself.
Easier to pretend my destiny lay among such stars, than work to salvage a life on solid ground. You changed all that.
we also know that gale's tent still holds such a celestial spyglass:
he also comments on it if you explore the world and fine one, like in the abandoned wizard tower:
the "to remember. and to forget." is also very interesting here. i think from his act iii dialogue we can infer what he means by this and it tugs on my heartstrings the same way the alternate act 3 astral sea / boat scene does.
to remember the beauty of the weave, a time where he was all but one with it, where he glimpsed at those possibilities. and to forget, to forget all that came after, the crushing loneliness, the isolation, the abject feeling of failure and loss.
#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#baldur's gate 3#bg3#baldurs gate 3#bg3 meta#ch: gale dekarios#vg: baldur's gate 3#series: baldur's gate#meta: mybg3
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this morning I went through old files and found a story I wrote in 2014, about a guy whose sister was dating a minor god. they took him along on little trips to the theatre etc in the god realm, but the guy was a bit of a shit who was suffocated by how meaningless his life was outside of these excursions, so he ruined things by stealing items from the other realm (just for the sake of stealing). and on one of his last trips, before he soured the relationship with his sister + her boyfriend too thoroughly, he tried to steal a sentient harp and accidentally ‘released’ it instead, so that it became this big snake thing that ate people.
it was a fun little story! I liked reading it! and it made me think that I should make a chapbook. they’re this tiny book-things made up of short stories, and sometimes poems and illustrations, and you can get them traditionally published or self-publish.
a second story in the chapbook would be The Something, which is basically ‘The Thing’ from the POV of the monster. and then there’s another story I found from 2013 about a guy selling boilers who ends up trapped in a nightmare, which could be rewritten into something half-decent.
the chapbook would be called ‘A Collection of Pathetic Men’ or something, and I’d do funny little pictures for everything!
#Im just saying this all publicly to shame myself into actually completing it#too many half-finished projects 😭 but I can see myself finishing this up and getting it out in not too much time
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Hello ! I wanted to know if your writing "on the romance of cannibalism" was a stand alone, or a part of a book you wrote. It resonates with something in me that I just discovered and I am very interested to see if you have more.
it was a stand alone—actually a draft that i have since revised, but i dislike the piece now & likely won't expand or release anything else of it. i released a tiny epub chapbook (poetry) titled man eater a while back if you'd like to check that out here
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If you’re an emerging poet or writer and you’re itching to get a chapbook out, I would not recommend @bottlecap-press for the simple reason that they do not seem to pay their authors within a reasonable timeframe if at all. This has been my experience and I’m sure there are others out there. Since the release of my chapbook back in March, it has been total radio silence. I received one statement in those four months and none of the payments I’m due. While I am empathetic to the time and pressure involved in running a small business, the way in which the finances are handled is ridiculous and to a large extent, unprofessional. And this makes me suspicious that this press may be taking advantage of young poets who would like to see their work published. Anyway—take your chapbooks elsewhere.
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The Orange and Pink Sunset is available for preorder now!
ABOUT THE CHAPBOOK
The sun has set on what my life used to be,
there’s no going back,
but that loss allows the stars to shine,
and I’m more at home in the moonlight anyway.
In The Orange and Pink Sunset, Ivy L. James weaves a tapestry of her life as a queer woman, from childhood crushes to the labels she’s tried on to religious discrimination. Her raw words express agony and joy in equal measure. She provides a refreshing perspective with an understandable voice, and her narrative style feels like sharing a pot of tea with a close friend. This impactful poetry chapbook is a vulnerable discussion of what it’s like to find herself as a lesbian, and in the end, James chooses love over hate, even in moments of pain.
Content warnings: Some poems touch on the author’s experiences with familial homophobia and religious homophobia. This collection also includes mild adult language, sensual content, and brief violent imagery.
ADVANCE PRAISE
“James’ writing is sweet, candid, and necessary. Her poems tell tales that will undoubtedly be relatable to the queer reader, provoking feelings of sorrow and solidarity both, and gradually fostering a sense of bright, palpable hope. Fresh yet enchantingly familiar, The Orange and Pink Sunset bleeds with authenticity.”
- Rose McCoy, author of When the World Didn’t End
“Exquisite joys & sorrows are laid out before you, like rare gems on an offering table right from the jump.
Bodyblows & massive hooks to the soul & spine on every page, snatching the air out your lungs, bringing you to tears a time or two on moments that hit so so so near to home, but instilling a craving to keep reading.
It ends so sweet, so subtle, so perfect, you go back and read it again.
In short: Ivy L. James offers here a rapturous sermon in the chapel of Sappho, and we should all be ever so grateful for the privilege to take in The Orange and Pink Sunset.
Just make sure to bring an offering for Saint Sailor Neptune, won’t you?”
- Clem Flowers, author of I Know Nothing But The Night (Bullshit Lit) & KUDZU (Cowboy Jamboree Press)
PREORDER LINKS
The ebook of this chapbook is currently available for preorder! The expected release date is 30 April 2024.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1KSKMG
Website: https://www.authorivyljames.com/product-page/the-orange-and-pink-sunset-ebook
PRESALE GIVEAWAY
If you preorder, please enter the presale giveaway to get some bonus poems and the chance to win a swag bag that includes a signed paperback copy!
Giveaway form: https://forms.gle/M7L18Cbq4Td11bj98
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Perhaps you've answered this so far, but how easy is it to transfer a game from the COG system to twine? I'm working on my WIP in the COG system right now (it is the coding system I'm familiar with, and I honestly find COG's simple UI much easier to read than the more intricate twine ones), but do not want to release it on that platform. I intend to put it on twine at some point. But the more I write, the more I get worried that I'm just creating more work for myself.
Personally, I think it depends on how much design work you want to do! Transferring all your variables and text from CS to Twine is kid stuff. I found that actually making the game look good was the hard part, because I had to blitz-learn CSS (and am still learning. I have a whole clone of Greenwarden in my Twine files that's just for testing cleaner code) to make it look nice, which is entirely optional. There are also plenty of Twine templates you can use!
Twine has several different versions built in that are good for different things. I use Sugarcube2, which comes with its own customizable UI, and so does @northern-passage. @heart-forge uses Harlowe. There's also Ren'Py, but that's a completely different beast and is mostly for visual novels. There's also Inform, which is a modern version of the coding language classic IF games like Zork and Planetfall were written in!
For that cleaner, classic CoG Ui, I might recommend Twine's Chapbook language! I haven't personally used it, but you might find it familiar and easy to read.
TL;DR: Not that hard, especially if you've already got a strong base to work with.
#answered#got long-winded sorry#i didnt use a template because im picky about what i want my game to look like#which is why it took me like four months to put the demo for the rewrite on itch
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"So the usual 'playful' movements, like Oulipo and its heirs, only ever worked for me in ways that were orthogonal to the formal preconditions. Same with my own writing. The experience I want is mystery and death. I want mercy extended to fellow mortal beings, or withheld; and if withheld, I want to want the reason. I want the intensity-management interface, maybe malfunctioning; I want my hand in the fire. And that’s the beginning and end of intersections between games and poetry that matter to me now. Not 'interactivity,' not rules and generative constraints, except to whatever degree they result in specific experience."
(from “I Want My Hand in the Fire”: An Interview with Jon Woodward by Zach Savich)
#poetry#review#experimental#interview#book#chapbook#small press#poems and poetry#anthony opal#new release#jon woodward#zach savich#video games#heavy feather review#the economy press
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Hi friends,
I’m pleased to present a FREE collaborative chapbook brought to you by the curators of Nosebleed Club! This one is about goshawks, a bird of prey that’s been on our minds a lot recently.
Sorel @bonemeadows
Victoria @aestronautics
Stefan @conservationarea
🌲CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD POLYRAPTORISM FOR FREE!🌲
Please keep on the lookout for more releases, as well as prompts and activities!
Thanks!
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Pictured: cover page, contents, “Hawk” (excerpt), "Hell is Real” (excerpt)
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hey, digitally releasing a short chapbook of poems that i wrote in 2022 that i've had sitting around. it's called I KNOW MY FURY LIKE A GIRLFRIEND. it's free to read here! <3
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releasing a chapbook maybe
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