Freeman NgJul 24, 2024

Minnesota friends, please join me at @RedBalloonBooks on August 27th to celebrate the launch of my young adult novel-in-verse about the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island.

https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/event/freeman-ng-bridge-across-sky

#YA #novel #versenovel #AngelIsland #immigration

Freeman Ng, BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY

Red Balloon Bookshop
TJ RadcliffeOct 2, 2023

#WritersCoffeeClub 10/2: How often do your write a week?

Most weeks, every day. That generally includes a post for "World of Wonders"--my substack on knowledge and reality--and often a bit of work on play or screenplay (a one-act for local theatre right now) as well as my WIP #versenovel it comes out to ">7 a week." Then again, for the past week it's been, like, two, due to both some family stuff going on and my inner gyro-compass hunting a bit, which I've learned to let happen as it happens.

TJ RadcliffeOct 1, 2023

#WritersCoffeeClub 10.1 — Intro: Shameless self-promotion. What's your WIP?

1) Pitching a sword-and-cellphone "Romeo and Juliet" formal #versenovel set in a world where handedness divides people, and Montarights and Capulefts are sworn enemies. Romeo's cousin Ben--a mall cop--is MC, though he shares well. It would be banned in Florida.

2) Just starting on a formal #versenovel that's a kind of HP Lovecraft/Terry Pratchett mashup about my home town

An example of my work: https://siduri.net/books/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-and-ham/

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Ham – Siduri Press

Andrew ShieldsMay 9, 2023
“Forgive the Aborigines, the Jews, women, and God”: The conclusion of Les Murray’s “Fredy Neptune” (1999). #111Words #LesMurray #FredyNeptune #VerseNovel #Poetry #Novel #Literature #Forgiveness https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/05/forgive-aborigines-jews-women-and-god.html
“Forgive the Aborigines, the Jews, women, and God”: The conclusion of Les Murray’s “Fredy Neptune” (1999)

In Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999), Fred Boettcher, a German-Australian sailor on a German ship in Trabzon in 1915, witnesses Armenian w...

Andrew ShieldsApr 11, 2023
Marlene Dietrich and cinematographer Karl Freund in Les Murray’s “Fredy Neptune” (1999). #111Words #LesMurray #FredyNeptune #MarleneDietrich #KarlFreund #VerseNovel #Poetry #Film #Cinema https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/marlene-dietrich-and-cinematographer.html
Marlene Dietrich and cinematographer Karl Freund in Les Murray’s “Fredy Neptune” (1999)

When Fred Boettcher in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999) first sees Marlene Dietrich in Hollywood, where he is an extra on the 1930 film o...

Andrew ShieldsMar 27, 2023
Going to the video store in Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” (1998). #111Words #AnneCarson #AutobiographyOfRed #Geryon #Herakles #VerseNovel #VideoStore https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/03/going-to-video-store-in-anne-carsons.html
Going to the video store in Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” (1998)

In her 1998 verse novel "Autobiography of Red", Anne Carson sets the ancient Greek myth of Geryon and Herakles in the late twentieth century...

Christiana DoucetteJan 31, 2023

Last year I posted general stats for Middle Grade Verse Novels. This year, I updated those stats, and added an #infographic dedicated to just 2022 Verse Novels.

You'll also find a handy list of all the #MG Verse Novels slated to publish in 2023, and of course, the master list of 324 MG Verse Novels written published/publishing between 1990 and 2024.

https://christianadoucette.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/2022-middle-grade-novel-in-verse-stats/

#MiddleGrade #Books #Poetry #VerseNovel #NovelInVerse #Statistics #Wordcount #AmReading #AmWriting #publishing #author

2022 Middle Grade Novel-in-Verse Stats

Christiana Doucette
Andrew ShieldsJan 2, 2023
But there’s too much in life: you can’t describe it. (Les Murray, “Fredy Neptune”) #poetry #VerseNovel #LesMurray
Andrew ShieldsDec 28, 2022
"It seems the Bolsheviks are starving all his people to death": The Ukrainian famine in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999). #111Words #FredyNeptune #LesMurray #Ukraine #Famine #Poetry #VerseNovel https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/12/it-seems-bolsheviks-are-starving-all.html
"It seems the Bolsheviks are starving all his people to death": The Ukrainian famine in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999)

While Fred Boettcher in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999) is in the United States, he finds a fellow strongman, the Ukr...

Andrew ShieldsDec 23, 2022
"All the people in Newcastle, all on the train wore these face-masks": The Spanish flu pandemic in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999). #111Words #LesMurray #FredyNeptune #Poetry #VerseNovel #SpanishFlu #FaceMasks #Australia #WorldWarOne https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/12/all-people-in-newcastle-all-on-train.html
"All the people in Newcastle, all on the train wore these face-masks": The Spanish flu pandemic in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999)

In Les Murray's 1999 verse novel "Fredy Neptune", Fred Boettcher returns to his native Australia from the Eastern Mediter...