Month: June 2013

  First, let me mention again our Call for Submissions. We’re looking for new friends! Now to the blog post–over on her own blog, Siri’s been talking about favorite places, both real and fictional. I thought I might too, but then I noticed her favorite fictional places and mine overlap a bit. (Pern? Hogwarts, forsooth!) So I thought I’d talk about my favorite fictional characters instead. But not just my favorites—the ones I’d like to hang out with. As much as I love, say, my Marine character Eve Marcori, I don’t think I’d enjoy spending a lot of time with her. There’s just too much violence and noise wherever she is, you know?

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Yeah.  So I’m on some pretty heavy meds for my eye, and I tend to get dizzy and loopy, so this should be interesting.  I’m at a loss for anything to say about it, except I’ve got more tests coming up and a super dose of IV steroids next week. (Hey, I get three days off work.  Gotta look at the positive).

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Last week, I was on YouTube and found myself watching the new music video for Kelly Clarkson’s People Like Us. I’m rather fond of both the song and the video, but what I found really interesting about the whole thing was the comments. People seem to universally find the song inspirational, but their reasons for finding it so varies from person to person. Some people were lonely. Some people were bullied. Some people had gotten out of a bad relationship. Some people just liked the idea that there were people out there who were like them, somewhere. It’s why music–and art–endures.

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One of our favourite things here at Turtleduck Press is the oddball, the unusual, the out-of-the-ordinary. Give us an arcane fact or something cool about the universe, and we’re happy. (Which is why we’re looking for oddball novels. But I digress.) I’ve just come back from a road trip through Western Canada. We poked into lots of wonderful shops that I wanted to buy in their entirety — yarn shops, indie designer clothing stores, art and photography stores, independent bookstores — but the best one by far was the rocks and gems store in Banff, Alberta.

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