http://kriswaldherr.com/blog kris waldherr art and words Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:58:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been almost a month since my last update. As you can imagine, it's been an intense time between closing up the old studio (*sob*) and setting up the new one (yay!). Above and below are first looks at my new space. Above is my writing corner adorned by my ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2012/01/the-studio-is-dead-long-live-the-studio-and-other-news/ Magick for Terri is a fundraising auction to help much loved editor, artist and writer Terri Windling. She's helped so many in the publishing community (including myself); now she need our help because of various health and legal issues. If you don't know who Terri Windling is, you've probably come across ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/12/magick-for-terri-last-day-for-an-offering/ As I gear into the home stretch of this draft of THE LILY MAID, I'm reminded how I felt when I was nine months pregnant with Thea: so ready to get it over and also not believing that it would ever be over. This, on top of moving house and ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/12/publishing-monday-home-stretch%e2%80%94and-an-interview-with-moi/ While others are stuffing themselves with pumpkin pie here in the States, I'm off for a week-long writer's retreat. My destination this time: Washington DC. My goal: to untangle the final third of THE LILY MAID for public consumption. As you can read in my last blog post, it's no secret that ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/11/creativity-friday-a-retreat-to-write/ One of my favorite sayings is that you can do everything you want, but just not at the same time. This past month has especially brought this point home to me—and I mean "home" in the literal sense. Saying goodbye to our old apartment. The moving van almost about loaded to go ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/11/moving-on/ .... Congratulations to Indigene! An e-mail will be sent to you with information for claiming your copy of Vicky Alvear Shecter's CLEOPATRA'S MOON. I know you're going to enjoy this wonderful novel! In other notes, it is snowing—SNOWING!—in Brooklyn this afternoon. Below is a view taken during my walk to the ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/10/cleopatras-moon-giveaway-and-the-winner-is/ First off, this is the last day to leave a comment to win a copy of Vicky Alvear Shecter's fabulous novel CLEOPATRA'S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books). Besides the giveaway, she's written a wonderful guest post full of writerly wisdom about how to adapt November's National Novel Writing Month to ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/10/creativity-friday-shifting-narratives-and-last-chance-for-cleopatras-moon/ I'm so excited that my amazingly talented and cool cousin Vicky Alvear Shecter is my guest for today's Creativity Friday. Vicky is not only the author of two nonfiction books, ALEXANDER ROCKS THE WORLD and CLEOPATRA RULES, but also a novelist. Her first novel CLEOPATRA'S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books) ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/10/creativity-friday-cleopatras-moon-giveaway-and-nanowrimo-advice-from-author-vicky-alvear-shecter/ And then there were none—none cards, that is, to be finished in the Sacred World Oracle. Here's a first look at the four remaining cards. The Sacred World Oracle celebrates the beauty and diversity of the earth and its creatures, utilizing myth, folklore, and nature to offer wisdom and guidance. It ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/10/creativity-friday-completing-the-sacred-world-oracle/ I was very amused this morning to come across this at GalleyCat. It's a post linking to photographs of books in media companies—from Flavorpill to the Village Voice. Some of the books are essential for business. Others were sent for review but will never be read—a veritable slush pile of ... http://kriswaldherr.com/blog/2011/10/publishing-monday-piles-o-books/