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Gillian Jack, Author at Gillian Jack
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Studies in Women in Renaissance Italy. Author Archives: Gillian Jack. Archive gems: Cesare Borgia, and Catherine de’ Medici. In the course of research in the archive, you come across lots of fascinating things that will never make it into the final thesis. This may be things which are just not relevant at all, or things which are relevant, to some extent, but don’t make the final cut of material to be included. While looking through a particular. Cesare Borgia, c.1500-1510. This entry was posted in PhD.
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Clarion Write-A-Thon Part IV | Writing and Other Afflictions
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Writing and Other Afflictions. If it was easy, everyone would do it. –Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own. Clarion Write-A-Thon Part IV. On June 19, 2015. Once again into the breach, dear friends! A 14-year-old American boy of Japanese heritage enters a prep school for shapeshifters and must figure out which shape is his while staying one step ahead of the federal investigator tracking him down for the bank fraud that got him into the school. It’d mean a lot if you could support me. Enter your comment here.
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Early Plot Questions: Does My Hero Have To Save The World? | Writing and Other Afflictions
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Writing and Other Afflictions. If it was easy, everyone would do it. –Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own. Early Plot Questions: Does My Hero Have To Save The World? On July 7, 2015. In the end, you know, all I can do is write the story I want to write, but I’m still at the stage where I have the freedom to decide what that is. If there’s an internal journey AND a world-saving journey, then I need to figure out why THIS hero? What makes him* the one who can do this? I do think that for a series, there sho...
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2015: The most difficult year | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. 2015: The most difficult year. I own a lot of books. And despite the fact that I read a lot, I have a lot of books I haven’t read. Right now I own over a hundred books which I have not yet read. Um, significantly over a hundred books. *cough* And I tend to buy books when I’m sick or tired, which means that over the last year, I’ve bought too many…. No new books. Noooooo. This entry was posted in reading. December 2, 2014. So you want to read YA. 2014 in 140 characters! On The Yea...
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Tell me what to nominate for the Hugos! | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. Tell me what to nominate for the Hugos! Seriously. Help meeeee. As previously mentioned, I read a lot of books last year, but most of them were not published in 2014. As of right now, I only have three things on my “NOMINATE THIS” list. Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories. Eds Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios,. Because good grief that was a good anthology. Because it’s now one of my favourite books of all time. The Birthday Unending, written (curated?
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Books I’m making grabby hands at | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. Books I’m making grabby hands at. Remember how I said I wasn’t going to buy books in 2015? Library or gift cards only, unless I knew the author well enough to hug them on sight. (And I am not a huggy person.) This is a list of books that is gonna make that resolution OH SO HARD. The Book: Bordello girls solve a series of murders during a steampunk version of the alaskan gold rush written by Elizabeth Bear. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland. By Catherynne M. Valente. The Book: Agnieszka ...
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Quotes | Non-Trivial Things
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Just busy being awesome. 2014 in 140 characters! I’ve spent most of my Christmas vacation sleeping outrageous amounts, interspersed with playing Sim City on my iPad, and it has been GLORIOUS. So in lieu of writing a long retrospective on the year, with lists and feelings and such, (which would take away from the all-important sleeping time) , I decided to instead give you an insight into my twitter favourites, circa 2014. Eliza Tiernan (@candy luminous) July 12, 2014. Continue reading →. January 4, 2015.
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And now on a more serious note | Non-Trivial Things
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Attempting to notice the world around me. Follow this blog by Email? Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 22 other followers. Stuff I wrote lately. I wrote another review! And now comes the time when I resume posting schoolwork. And now on a more serious note. Very very quick post with gifs in lieu of words. Dude it’s summer and national holidays are scarily soon. Welcome to 2016, the year I go full hag. 9 hours ago. 2010 Debut Author Challenge.
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