Okay I have to say that blurb on the back of @maggie-stiefvater’s book The Raven Boys doesn’t do it justice.
A host of co-dependent teens with a battery of psychological issues comb rural Virginia for a dead Welsh king with dubious magical powers. Trees talk; hitmen put down roots; dead people live; living people die. Cars are described in loving detail. Fuckweasel. A house full of psychics tells everybody the future and drinks a lot on-page considering it’s a young adult series. Nobody kisses anybody, which is weird because everybody loves everybody. There’s rich boys! Poor boys! Sad boys! Angry boys! Raven boys! Collect them all!
they wouldn’t let me write it
well…
the draft is clean…
ulp.
I’m reading it on my Kindle tomorrow. no notes inline, just a read-through (maybe jot some important stuff down).
then I give it to Jake.
then an editor and all my dear test subjects. I mean advance readers.
I can’t fucking wait. this has been SO LONG IN COMING! YES! ORGASM PUN!
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen’s Short Guide to a Happy Life – her fantastic cancelled Villanova commencement address on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist. (via explore-blog)
It was wonderful to sit with her head on my shoulder for hours and feel as I always have, even now, closer to her than to any other human being. And I wouldn’t mind a bit if in a few years you and I could snuggle up together under a stone in some old graveyard here. That is really a happy thought and not melancholy at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald (via righteouswaxchaperone)
