C L Deards

Living in Alternate Realities

[franwilde]

~ fly, Kirit ~ #updraft #Uptember

[maryrobinette]

My Favorite Bit: Fran Wilde talks about UPDRAFT

My Favorite Bit: Fran Wilde talks about UPDRAFT

Fran Wilde is joining us today with her novel Updraft. Here’s the publisher’s description:

In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves.

Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage.

What’s Fran’s favorite bit?

FRAN…

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[cyallowitz]

Read an excerpt from Windemere! Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue Now Available

Read an excerpt from Windemere! Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue Now Available

Originally posted on readful things blog:

Find it on Amazon.com

Read an excerpt from the book below

“The room is comfortably warm due to the sunlight passing through the glass dome that acts as a ceiling. Tropical plants cover the edge of the room, which has soft grass growing out of the spongy floor. A gentle rain falls out of the ceiling and onto the foliage, giving the air a crisp…

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[christopherleedeards]

Conor Kelly and The Fenian King

[victoriousvocabulary]

CAPRIPEDE

[noun]

a faun or satyr; any of a group of deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and often the legs of a goat.

[adjective]

2. having goat’s feet.

Etymology: Latin capri- (goat, pertaining to a goat) + -pede (from pes - foot).

[Carlos Schwabe]

[christopherleedeards]

Faun illustrations! Inundate me, please, tumblr. 

Here's my journey to find the perfect one.

http://goo.gl/82vdtv

  Do you have a good faun illustration?

[natureunveiled]

Arnold Böcklin

Sleeping Diana Watched by Two Fauns

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[christopherleedeards]

These fauns are an almost perfect representation of the fauns from my novel. 

[christopherleedeards]

Do you believe in fauns?

A new blog post on the mythical creatures in my novel

http://goo.gl/4CiqvE

[christopherleedeards]

The Novel of Your Life--What's the Title? Play a game of imagination. http://goo.gl/LJQGQG

[christopherleedeards]

My take on alternate realities part I: http://goo.gl/iOO35q

[christopherleedeards]

The Antikythera Mechanism. I forgot all about this ancient Greek analog computer. 

http://goo.gl/UbLWB9

[christopherleedeards]

Coffee Memories--what are yours?

http://cldeards.com/coffee-memories/

[christopherleedeards]

Faerie versus Robot---who wins?

What do you think?

http://cldeards.com/faerie-versus-terminator-wins/

[christopherleedeards]

The new Harry Potter movies

I know, it's old news, but it's new news to me. 

Take me back to Diagon Alley, please

http://wp.me/p4u4nO-fD

[christopherleedeards]

Ever have one of those nights?

Ever have one of those nights? A cascade of crazy events that compounds, twists upon itself until you wonder if you have stepped into Wonderland? That was my night last night:

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[christopherleedeards]

How do women seem themselves?

Having two women in my life (wife and daughter) I should be more aware of these things portrayed in the video. What do you think? http://wp.me/p4u4nO-eT