I’ve been saying this all over the other place, but I should say it here where @kellylink.bsky.social actually is. Her new novel is everything I’d hoped it would be and more.

lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/30/a... New Blog post: "Every sentence begins with a stressed syllable, DUH duh. DUH duh. I’m trying to make you feel how Painter receives a bit of input, then struggles to process it: Darkness.  (Where?) Desperate coughing.  (Huh?)  Thunderous pounding.  “What?”

New blog post: lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/23/w... I was a sad person, composing a first-person narrative that was fictionally composed by a sad fictional person.  I didn’t have to look far to know what sadness feels like, but to express that feeling--while feeling it--wasn’t easy.

A few hours after my last blog post went live, Vera Zulumovski graciously gave me permission to include her linocut print, "Veiled Woman on a Balance Beam." Now you can read the post and view the print all in one place: wordpress.com/post/lauriej...

wordpress.com/post/lauriej... New blog post: "The light-scatter coalesces into a focused beam, and I can see my book’s multitude of flaws and failures. And that’s okay: Imperfections are rocks that form a path across a river.  I step on them, thank them, and leave them behind."

No wonder we tell children that gifts are randomly carried down chimneys.  It seems like a reasonably accurate fantasy story. lauriejmarks.blog/2023/12/15/u...