Stephanie Noyes McSherry
The Merry Barn at 417 River Road in Edgecomb. Kim Skills Traina photo
The Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat in Edgecomb is thrilled to open its doors again for its Summer Writing Adventures. After this long and difficult year, we can hardly wait to welcome the creativity, curiosity, and joy of our campers back to the barn.
Join us as we … write, read, explore, walk and sketch in nature, create art, perform Poetry & Readers’ Theater, learn from a published children’s author, practice yoga and mindfulness, create a collection of work, and celebrate and share at an Authors’ Tea.
Wrexham Glyndŵr University graduate secures publishing deal for graphic novels
A Wrexham Glyndŵr University graduate is using their artistic skills to forge a career in the world of graphic novels and comic books.
Alex Assan, who graduated with a BA (Hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Publishing, has secured a two-book deal with publishers HarperAlley.
The first graphic novel, Sunhead, in set in Tel Aviv in 2008 and follows a pair of unlikely friends who bond over their shared love of a vampire book.
The 27 year-old, who hails from the city, said of securing the publishing deal: “I’m beyond excited to work with them on this book and I’m very happy that they liked my story and signed me for not one, but two projects.”
Less is more, and
John Deering (Creators) has, IMHO, the best take on Andrew Cuomo because he isn’t dancing on the political grave or even pushing Cuomo into it.
Nor is he going on about the statistics on nursing home deaths, a scandal that wouldn’t have disappeared but would likely have been more of a campaign issue than a cause for beheading.
Where people die is a fraught statistic, starting with things as simple as the fact that you’re more apt to die of certain things at a major medical center than at a small local hospital, because, when the folks at the little hospital realize they can’t help you, they transport you to the med center which can’t help you either but you’re still alive when you get there.
Over in the Economist,
Kal Kallaugher wonders if Europe will ever trust us again, given that she’s got reasons not to.
I’m leading with it because yesterday I promised to look into the missile strike against a launch base in Syria, admitting that, given my feelings about our having abandoned our Kurdish allies, I had some expectations in the matter.
An analyst interviewed on the BBC that morning noted that the target was an Iraqi group and suggested it was a departure from the Trump policy of blaming everything on Iran and signaled a softening related to our desire to rebuild the Iran nuclear treaty.
The Fitz introduction:
Next Saturday begins the glorious weekend of the 2021 Tucson Virtual Festival of Books. The lineup of authors is amazing. Imagine enjoying every moment of TFOB with your feet up. I had the pleasure to interview one of my heroes, a Tucson Festival of Books Crowd Cast Guest, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, digitally on the rounds promoting “Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury”. I was cool. I didn’t gush. I should have asked him about his middle name, Beekman, but instead we talked about cartooning. Here’s our conversation…
With 24 fully formed complex fictional humans in your head, and then some, do you ever worry about your sanity?