I love wacky creative people – especially musicians and writers. This guy, Nick Franglen, is no exception. He’s using “London Bridge and its human traffic to create a 24-hour piece of music – armed only with a theremin and an espresso machine.” How awesome is that?
“There’s something very beautiful about playing improvised music in a space that’s got an unusual ambience,” he says, recalling other gigs in a Cold War-era Soviet submarine, and serenading the dawn on Hampstead Heath.
It was streamed live across the pond and I believe will be available on his website soon (I hope so – I want to hear this!)
Read the full BBC article here.
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Over the course of the past year, I’ve entered GLOW in a variety of writing contests. Today, I finally won one.
Also awesome: the judges (all published writers) had some super nice things to say about GLOW:
We are pleased to announce the winner of the SciFi/Fantasy/Horror category of our OUT OF THE SLUSH PILE, Novel Journey’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame Contest.
We’re also pleased that everyone liked the same entry best, so there was no need for bloodshed. The judges agreed the writing is tight and moves the story forward, and the characters are realistic and have depth. All things considered, it’s a strong, compelling story.
It’s things like this that really make my day!
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I’m now dying to see this orchestra!
Watching the Karmetic Machine Orchestra is like getting a peek at the inner workings of a factory through a sheet of glass. It churns. Gears turn. Wired mallets beat drum heads. Some of the musicians sit at laptops looking like workers as they rhythmically press buttons.
Read the full article here.
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It’s official: I am no longer a 20-something. Yesterday, I turned 30. I don’t feel any different (yet) but I expect any minute now I’ll magically transform into a more mature not-so-young lady. You know, a real grown-up.
Yeah right. 
Anyway, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, so here’s a few highlights:
- I have a job. Let me say that again. I HAZ JOB. (Whew, I was getting a little worried for a bit there, too!). I’m now the Audience Development Manager at the Phoenix Symphony—wish me luck!
- We adopted a second pug! Meet Milo (if you haven’t already…)
- For some reason, the folks at WEbook.com really liked my submission package for GLOW—so much so, that they’re using my query letter as an example of what to do since I’ve had a 20% request rate. They’re making me blush!
- Also making me blush is the overwhelmingly positive feedback I’ve received on my query and sample pages for THE GHOST WRITER. I was prepared for them to be ripped to shreds by betas and critique buddies, but instead everyone seems to like it. A lot.
- And I’m finally making some serious headway on my next book – CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE CYBORG. I have to do something while waiting for my beta readers to get back to me!
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a little bit of shameless self-promotion:
I’m the featured member in WEbook’s April 2010 newsletter!
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