A great montage of sequences shot in China and the Far East in the 1920s, set to some suggestive and atmospheric jazz music.
A treat from the YouTube collection of marvels by Aaron1912.
Enjoy!
I’m posting a short ad, here.
My friend Marco Siena is crowdfunding the English version of his novel Ignition (in Italian, Ignizione) – the first installment of a quirky, highly entertaining steampunkish trilogy.
Marco plans to get enough to hire a professional translator and other help, then hit the English-language market full tilt.
He already has a very good story, and a great cover (here’s a detail):
The novel is well worthy of the effort – and it would be a nice opportunity for international readers, to learn about a different approach to imaginative fiction.
So, take a look at the Indiegogo page, and if you feel like, do your part.
Last night my friend Claire launched her English-language blog – Scribblings.
Now Claire being Claire, I guess her new blog (she already runs one in Italian) has been meticulously planned, insightfully designed and thoroughly tested, the pros and cons carefully evaluated.
I point this out not to make fun of Claire (who, apart from being a fine writer and a dear friend, is also one of my gorgeous but unflinching editors); I’m pointing it out to explain that I think Claire started working on her new blog well before the summer, early in 2013.
Which is more or less when Karavansara was launched (with far less planning and thought, admittedly), and when a lot of other Italian bloggers I know started looking at the outer world – some opening a new weblog, others simply starting to post in English on their old platform, some alternating posts in Italian and English on their blogs, others posting bilingual content, experimentally. Continue reading
I do not have Idea where this pictures comes from (pointers welcome), but it sure works as a prompt – for anything from fantasy to espionage by way of romance.
What’s the story here?
Good, simple advice for those awkward moment when your story goes pear-shaped.
Foiled again!
But enjoy your fleeting triumph while you can, J.O. Quinliven!
Next time, I will get to the title first!
LOL!
And i actually changed the title of my story!
Thanks to my friend Andrea Sfiligoi for pointing out this old cover to me.
Oh, and in case you are curious (what the heck, I was!), there’s a great collection of mr Quinliven’s stories from the thirties (including Brides of the Swamp God), available through Amazon.com: Terror Tales J. O. Quinliven
Check it out!
Looks like pricing ebooks at 1.99 is a bad idea, after all.
Interesting article on the readers’ perception of quality based on pricing.
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