tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post113846066940093935..comments2024-03-28T02:36:55.037-04:00Comments on Brooklyn Arden: FAQ, Fun Stuff, Depressing Stuff, and ChickensCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138918775108036262006-02-02T17:19:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:19:00.000-05:00Hi Cheryl,I have another question for the FAQs, if...Hi Cheryl,<BR/><BR/>I have another question for the FAQs, if you please. What do you forsee as the future for MG/YA fantasy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138918505454707042006-02-02T17:15:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:15:00.000-05:00A question for the FAQs:Do editors have to attend ...A question for the FAQs:<BR/><BR/>Do editors have to attend writers' conferences? Like, are they pushed into attending by their bosses/publishers? I've attended some conferences where the guest editors seemed bored, bored, bored to tears--I'm talking really bored, like they couldn't wait to hightail it back to NYC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138661038489893672006-01-30T17:43:00.000-05:002006-01-30T17:43:00.000-05:00Your exposed brick walls are cool.Your exposed brick walls are cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138600332439360992006-01-30T00:52:00.000-05:002006-01-30T00:52:00.000-05:00Out of all the serious and not-so comments here, I...Out of all the serious and not-so comments here, I choose to respond to those about chickens. I was amazed last year when my brother showed me the chickens living in his yard. They were enormous! They had big fluffs of feathers on their feet! They had crazy Gonzo feather heads! They glared with serious and menacing eyes! Chickens are truly wondrous strange. Thanks for bringing them up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138558490314647642006-01-29T13:14:00.000-05:002006-01-29T13:14:00.000-05:00Cheryl! Hello!Thanks for the butterfly instruction...Cheryl! Hello!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the butterfly instructions! They are whimsy! Would be all right if I showed them on my blog? <BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to the FAQs. I have a confession to make. I fell in love with AALB last October at the SBCWI Orange County Editor's Day. Rachel Griffiths gave an amazing talk where she showed "the exceptions to the rule" for the same, old questions that seemed to get asked all the time. She showed a really snappy, rhyming alphabet book about spies and read from "The Hickory Chair" showing what a picture book with more than 500 words might look like. I left with a real, warm tummy feeling about how very fine children's books could be. Tell her thank you a hundred times two!<BR/><BR/>How did you like "The Brother's Karamazov"? My favorite bit in that is where Liza keeps peaking out from behind the door to tease Alyosha. It's a nice "real" moment of teenager-ness in the middle of peasants, poverty, vodka, the meaning of life and people making really bad choices.<BR/><BR/>Make toys! Play more!<BR/><BR/>Marilyn.Thetoymakershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405265800595978197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1138479434462611872006-01-28T15:17:00.000-05:002006-01-28T15:17:00.000-05:00I'm from Topeka. The Phelps make their little kid...I'm from Topeka. The Phelps make their little kids picket churches and businesses in Topeka all of the time. Some of the signs have stick figures having sex. I had to explain to my four year old, who can read, that the "God hates you," sign wasn't true. Another time, when my church was walking to a Palm Sunday service, one of the Phelps sang to my baby, "Poor little baby of the sodomizers, it's not your fault." They've also called my mom a sodomizer when she jogged past them one day. One funny counter-protest had a guy dressed up like a clown, holding a sign saying, "God hates clowns."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com