5/22/2023 0 Comments Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala![]() ![]() But when Raffy is forced to partner with Luca on his most ambitious build yet, he'll have to juggle unresolved feelings for the boy who broke his heart, and his own intense self-doubt, to get everything he's ever wanted: choosing his art, his way. ![]() He is also the author of Reverie and Be Dazzled. Ryan is the author behind the bestselling cottagecore horror, The Honeys, which is in development to become a major motion picture with Anonymous Content. Now, Raffy is after the perfect comeback, one that Luca can't ruin. Ryan La Sala is the bestselling and award-winning author of books in which surreal things happen to queer people. But Luca's insecurities and Raffy's insistence on crafting perfection caused their relationship to crash and burn. They almost made the perfect team last year after serendipitously meeting in the rhinestone aisle at the local craft store-or at least Raffy thought they did. ![]() Raffy's ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition. ![]() If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning real respect for his work. He's always chosen his art over everything-and everyone-else and is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making-for creation. Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Leviathan wakes goodreads![]() ![]() Our guidelines were designed to foster a diverse and welcoming discussion community while avoiding drama, flamewars, and promotional activity. Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. ![]() ![]() The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() What do you love most about raising your families here? RD: After finishing school in Brisbane I moved to the Gold Coast to study when I was 19 and from that time I have been enjoying our wonderful lifestyle ever since. ![]() I finished my studies at Palm Beach Currumbin High. ![]() NE: My family moved from Melbourne to Currumbin when I was 16, and I stood on Currumbin Beach and knew this is where I wanted to live my life. How long have you been Gold Coast locals? We take five with co-founders Natasha and Ruth to chat about the festival’s growth (it’s expected to attracted 275,000 visitors this year) and the pairs passion for the Coast’s local art scene. It’s one of the Gold Coast’s most loved art and cultural festivals and, as of September 8th, SWELL Sculpture Festival is back on beautiful Currumbin Beach for the fifteenth year running. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Flat stanley invisible stanley![]() ![]() Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. ![]() Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Allanon needs Brin Ohmsford's magic to enter the Maelmord and destroy the Ildatch. From their stronghold in the Eastland, the Mord Wraiths have enslaved a Gnome army, sending them against the Dwarves. ![]() It is revealed that the Ildatch has possessed a new generation of mortals, the Mord Wraiths, to pick up where the Warlock Lord left off. Allanon thought the dark book was buried in the destruction of the Skull Kingdom after Shea triumphed over the Warlock Lord, but several of Brona's human servants recovered the book, and began to read.Īs the novel begins, Allanon has returned, requiring the aid of yet another generation of Ohmsfords. Brona was subverted by the very power he sought to control thus, the Warlock Lord was born. It remained harmless until the Druid Brona found it in the halls of Paranor and began to read its secrets. When the Druids gathered all knowledge and lore to themselves in the aftermath of the Great Wars, the book of Ildatch was uncovered after countless millennia. This book was so full of their essence that it became a living thing, with a will of its own. In the backstory to the novel, before the dawn of mankind, Demons created a book of dark magic. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Kira jane buxton hollow kingdom![]() ![]() Honestly, the toilet wand has more dignity. Filling his water bowl proved tricky for me, so I escorted him to the porcelain throne which was fruitful and utterly revolting. I put clothes in the laundry machine and dealt with Dennis’s not-so-subtle hints at dinnertime when he pummeled his food bowls as if they had castrated him. Since Big Jim was so busy jabbing his finger at the basement wall and doing a stellar impression of a rabid raccoon, I took on even more of the household chores than I normally do. In the days after Big Jim’s eyeball rolled out of his head, it became clear that I was going to have to pick up some of the slack. ![]() Hollow Kingdom is about a pet crow fighting to save humanity from an apocalypse. ![]() She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle, Washington, home. Kira Jane Buxton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. The following is an excerpt from Kira Jane Buxton's genre-bending debut novel, Hollow Kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() He falls hard for Jordan, and then spends a lot of time trying to figure out why Jordan can’t seem to be around him. Then Dylan becomes infused (infected?) with hydrogen as well, and things get way out of control.ĭylan is the real heart of the novel, an exuberant teen with a couple of loyal best friends, a job at the Dairy Queen, an enemy in the class mean girl, and a romantic’s heart. As a result, arson has become quite common in his new neighborhood, and the more he is around new crush Dylan, the more heated things become. ![]() ![]() Jordan lives at an elevated temperature and, when he is under stress, has a habit of uncontrollably starting fires. Zepka doesn’t spend a lot of time explaining what happened, preferring instead to focus on the impact. I’ll be honest I’m a bit fuzzy on exactly what caused Jordan to be infused with hydrogen or how he is supposed to be alive with this condition. ![]() The Temperature of Me and You, Brian Zepka ( Disney-Hyperion 978-1-36806-471-2, $17.99, hc, 416 pp) January 2022.Īuthor Brian Zepka set out to blend a sweet romance with high school drama and a major science fiction twist in The Temperature of Me and You, a novel involving the teen victim of a lab accident/experiment that has left him literally burning from the inside out. ![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of Caribbean folklore, Lisa Stringfellow's spellbinding middle grade debut tells of a grieving girl and a vengeful mermaid and will enchant readers who loved Kacen Callender's Hurricane Child or Christian McKay Heidicker's Scary Stories for Young Foxes. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() I couldn’t help but laugh for no particular reason. Player Kim Su Hyun, do you truly wish to repeat those ten years of torment?” Seraph looked at me like she was pleading. “It is absurd to use an object with such incredible power to simply turn back time. To change his bitter past, Kim Su Hyun decides to use the Zero Code’s power to turn back time 10 years. However, all the anguish he had experienced during his 10 years in the Hall Plain left him in despair. After many twists and turns, he manages to reach the peak of the Hall Plain. After being discharged from military service, Kim Su Hyun is suddenly abducted into the world of Hall Plain. Korea’s first-ever web novel of the ‘another world’ genre, Memorize. The story takes place before the events of Second Coming of Gluttony another story written by the same author and set in the same universe. ![]() The story follows the protagonist Kim Soohyun and his journey to attain the Zero Code, a divine relic in order to return back to Earth after being teleported to Hall Plain. And later becomes known as the Martial God in the Second Coming of Gluttony. Using it he had traveled back in time and later became the founding leader of the famous Mercenary Clan. Kim Soohyun is the main character of MEMORIZE (메모라이즈) and is the very first person to obtain and wield the Zero Code. ![]() Memorize Manga (메모라이즈) is a Korean Web Novel written by Ro Yu-jin (로유진) and published by Joara which began early 2012 and ended during 2016. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The interestings by meg wolitzer![]() ![]() Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. It's everyone's."- Entertainment Weekly (A)įrom Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan). But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. With this book has surpassed herself.”- The New York Times Book Review Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and The Chicago Tribune, and named a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post ![]() |