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We got to thinking about Mother's Day on the Drollerie Press authors listserv, and decided we'd all play with ideas about mothers and motherhood for this month's blog tour posts. I ended up writing an essay, soon to appear on Heather Ingemar's blog, about the impossible ideals of the Good Mother and the Good Writer. I'll post the link, and the links for the rest of the tour posts, later today.
This month I'm hosting my longtime critique partner David Sklar, whose livejournal blog you can find at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thunderpigeon. You can find his novel, Shadow of the Antlered Bird, at all the usual e-book outlets. He also has short pieces in the YA anthology StereoOpticon and the forthcoming anthology Needles and Bones, and other things in other places. I like to describe his novel as a dark fantasy road trip buddy movie in which one of the buddies is on the run from his own catastrophic error in sorcery. Delicious stuff.
After the delightful character interviews with Tam, the hero of Shadow of the Antlered Bird, that came out of the March blog tour (here and here), David and I thought it would be a hoot for me to try a conventional parenting-magazine-style interview with Tam's scary Never-Mess-With-a-Queen-of-Faerie mother. David got far enough into character that we began to wonder how I'd ever escape from the interview without getting turned into a toad. All I can say is, no wonder Tam is so desperate to escape his mother's tutelage.
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This month I'm hosting my longtime critique partner David Sklar, whose livejournal blog you can find at
thunderpigeon. You can find his novel, Shadow of the Antlered Bird, at all the usual e-book outlets. He also has short pieces in the YA anthology StereoOpticon and the forthcoming anthology Needles and Bones, and other things in other places. I like to describe his novel as a dark fantasy road trip buddy movie in which one of the buddies is on the run from his own catastrophic error in sorcery. Delicious stuff.After the delightful character interviews with Tam, the hero of Shadow of the Antlered Bird, that came out of the March blog tour (here and here), David and I thought it would be a hoot for me to try a conventional parenting-magazine-style interview with Tam's scary Never-Mess-With-a-Queen-of-Faerie mother. David got far enough into character that we began to wonder how I'd ever escape from the interview without getting turned into a toad. All I can say is, no wonder Tam is so desperate to escape his mother's tutelage.
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