Woensdag spreken Lloyd Haft, Silvia Marijnissen en ik in Leiden over Taiwanese literatuur: dichters als Zhou Mengdie, Hsia Yu en Chen Yuhong, en de nog altijd immens populaire Sanmao. Kom ook!
Wat: Taiwanese literature in Dutch: the voice of the translators
Waar: UB Leiden, Vossiuskamer @AsianLibraryNL
Wanneer: woensdag 20 september van 15.30-17.00, met aansluitend borrel
Voertaal: Nederlands
Meer info: https://www.facebook.com/asianlibraryleiden #Taiwan#literatuur#poëzie#Leiden#Sanmao
Congratulations to our teams who won two prizes at the
IBC Awards which recognise: "[pushing] the boundaries of live and linear content creation and delivery."
@BBCRD As someone who remembers microwave links and intermediates and steerable receive dishes on transmitting masts as the sole means of getting a vision signal to somewhere it could be useful (admittedly, this did make for some nice relaxing days for Tel.OBs staff sitting at Crystal Palace or Sutton Coldfield watching the cricket going down the line) this is pretty mindblowing.
Sitze jetzt in der Mittagspause mit Notebook in einem Café und frage mich, wer eigentlich die Idee aufgebracht hat, dass das Arbeiten an solchen Orten so toll sein soll. Also, ja, ich kann Mails lesen und beantworten, aber für alles andere fehlt mir dann doch mein Schreibtisch und der zweite Bildschirm (ja, Luxusproblem, ich weiß) und überhaupt.
Aber es ist angenehm ruhig, und gleich gönne ich mir noch ein Stück Kuchen.
@andijah Kommt halt auf den Beruf an. Die Cafésitzer sind ja allesamt wir Autorinnen.😎 Also, wir sitzen im Café, wenn's am eigenen Swimmingpool zu kühl ist und wenn wir den Champagnerdunst mal wieder mit Koffein auflösen müssen. Gleichzeitig gucken wir viel rum oder quasseln, das nennt man dann "Leute beobachten", "einen Plot entwickeln". Diese Außenwirkung erzielt man auch eher als am Swimmingpool.🤫 🤭 😂 #writerslife#writingCommunity@writers
Sometimes I get harry potter adults asking if Minnie is named after the hogwarts teacher and I think to myself "if I was going to name her after a YA novel character her name would be Katniss"
Hunger Games is better, fight me. We experienced a legit renneissance of YA lit in the last 30 years and there are people out here sleeping on Redwall and the Outsiders. I dont even mind that they read at the same level as a 12 year old. @bookstodon#HarryPotter
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Traditional porcelain and ceramic toilet bowls could be on the way out. A new 3D-printed bowl developed by scientists at Huazhong University in China is so slippery that nothing sticks to it. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/uATfwQ #Science#Inventions#Toilets#Cleaning
Instead of answering, I went through all the responses thus far and made a spreadsheet of the answers. (This is absolutely non-scientific and possibly inaccurate, plus there's no data as to how well these strategies worked, but hey, I was curious and thought maybe others might be interested too.)
I also have a list of "Other" answers that didn't fit neatly in these boxes or struck me in some way-- I'll link those next.
@ElisesWritings@RubyJones I haven’t heard of reading and reviewing as a marketing strategy, though I do a ton of reading and reviewing when I can, mostly to spread the word about amazing books, as well as to fill the creative well, study craft through incredible storytelling, and to find similar books to target for ads, etc (If you like X and Y try Z— and if you like X or Y but haven’t tried the other, do that too!)
@skaeth@RubyJones it struck me because I wonder if the odds of hitting your target audience with in-genre reviews on review sights are better than posting to anyone and everyone you do (or don't) interact with on social media. I'm guessing its impact is hard to track though.
I should do more of the latter, but with an epic, portal, YA Fantasy with incidentally queer characters, limited romance & initially low magic... non high-risk-of-misleading ones are pricks to find 😆
Good Morning Mastodon and Fantasycon! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the engrossing SF tale on Hamlet that is The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu. What are you reading at the moment?
@RunalongWomble Hello, Womble. Just finished 'The Dentist' by Tim Sullivan, a UK crime procedural set in Bristol. Main detective character is on the autistic spectrum, which makes him very good at details and patterns but not so good at interacting with colleagues and the public. Compelling mystery, well-paced but not sure how I felt about the writing style. There was a lot of jarring head-hopping (jumping between POV and POV), often within the same paragraph. @bookstodon
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Hello Womble, just started 'The blighted stars' by Megan O'Keefe. Fun space opera so far. Sabotaged ship leads a group of survivors to crash land on an Earth-like planet which is not as hospitable as they were led to expect... @bookstodon