Jabberwocky 4 TOC is up!

Posted by Genevieve on June 19th, 2009 filed in Writing
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The TOC for Jabberwocky 4 has just been released! I’m there with “How to Write a Sad Song,” and in excellent company, including friends-list-haunters, as well as freakin’ P.B. Shelley, who’s too cool to get an LJ, I guess. Ten bucks says he has a secret Twitter account that’s nothing but Jonas Brothers fanwank. He’s such a poser.

Anyway, nobody likes a crazy-long list, so you can check out the full TOC here if so inclined.

“To Set Before the King”

Posted by Genevieve on June 17th, 2009 filed in Writing
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“If you leave meat on the bone in lukewarm water long enough, the pores will leak marrow. No matter how gamey the meat, the bath in its milky marrow-water will soften it and give it flavor. It’s a poor man’s trick.

You know the meat is ready when you can peel the bone out of the meat and grind it to powder under your fingers.”

My short story “To Set Before the King” will be coming out this fall as part of the Interfictions 2 Online Annex. Like last year, the IAF is running an online auction of portable art based on the stories to benefit the IAF. There were some really gorgeous items inspired by the stories in the anthology last year.

This year’s Call to Artists is live. You can see snippets from all the stories (just keep refreshing - it’s like the slots!), including a longer snippet from mine, and request the full story if an excerpt strikes your fancy.

For anyone who might be interested, “To Set Before the King” follows three stories: a young nanny in a house where the mother has just gone missing, the fairy tale from the children’s collection, and advice from the house chef on how to cook large cuts of meat. (Hint: take the wedding ring off first.)

Who doesn’t want a nice sweet story, right? Hit up that Call to Artists for something you can read to your children. If you want them to hate you forever.

“Moon.”

Posted by Genevieve on June 16th, 2009 filed in Columns, Fassbender Syndrome, Movies, Reviews, Writing
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Today at Tor.com, I talk about Moon, which I had hailed in previous posts there as my last best hope for some cerebral science fiction in the next eon.

For once, something did not disappoint!

It’s a movie that doesn’t tell you everything; it shows you as much as it can, and you decide what you want to take away from it. It sounds laissez-faire, but I was totally hooked from the first minute (and pay attention in the quiet first act - you’ll be rewarded later).

Oh, and bring a tissue; Clint Mansell did the score, and anyone who saw Requiem for a Dream knows what happens when you give that guy three minutes and some instruments. I might have cried. Twice. You can’t prove a thing.

Kings: “Brotherhood”

Posted by Genevieve on June 15th, 2009 filed in Columns, Recaps, TV, Writing
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On Tor.com today, I break down Brotherhood, the first of the back seven episodes that NBC is burning off.

There were some absolutely gorgeous moments this episode. They are really not messing around with the cinematography, or the score, both of which were movie-quality. Plus, I’m a total sucker for some symbolism. MORE CANDLES.

However, it seems like in the backlash of the “too little happening” complaints in the first few episodes, they’re now offering single-episode plot arcs, which is fine if you want to rid your city of a plague in twelve hours, but a little underinflated when you’re trying to establish the terror of a traitor within the King’s own circle.

The good news is that David and the king’s son are finally, FINALLY not at polar opposites any more, and while I have no illusions about Jack’s ability to fuck up almost anything he touches, at least his psychotic ADD attempts at obsessiveness are pointing in a Biblical direction, if you get me, and I think you do.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: this should have been on HBO. It has no place on a major network, which NBC figured out about three episodes too late.

Cast notes.

1. Uh, Thomasina? You out sick? Thomasina?

2. Oh, Wed Studi.

Fun with Lobby Cards: “The Secret of Moonacre”

Posted by Genevieve on June 12th, 2009 filed in Costume, Fun with Lobby Cards, Movies, awesome british actor camp
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I have come to accept that The Secret of Moonacre, about whose costumes I have already written much, will never see release in the States because of magical reasons of which I am unaware but probably involve dragons and things. So, I will have to make up this damn movie myself. Luckily, the best website in the world The Costumer’s Guide, had a link to some new costume stills, so like photos of a crime scene, I can use these to piece together what’s happened.

P.S. From these pictures, what happened is not good.

Oh, you can run, young heroine, but you can’t hide.

Funny you mention a crime scene…
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