{"id":2019,"date":"2008-04-18T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:50","slug":"toon-thursday-stages-of-rejection-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Stages of Rejection #6 (Fortified with Extra Linkage!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SAfwaOnX6JI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/FlFUZ2VLQWE\/s1600-h\/7StagesRejection-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/7StagesRejection-6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190381428958292114\" \/><\/a><br \/>Oh yes&#8211;our writer is slowly but surely recovering from that most insidious of repetitive mental stress disorders: writerly rejection. I mean, bargaining&#8211;that&#8217;s practically normal behavior, right? Right. At this stage, there&#8217;s nothing that a nice tall glass of iced tea and several hours in front of the television won&#8217;t cure. (Huh. Don&#8217;t confuse this with <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/toon-thursday-stages-of-rejection-3.html\">Stage 3<\/a>, okay?)<br \/>Anyway, in other news, I&#8217;ve been cruising around the internets and not having time to post anything due to being sick and blah, so here are a few items that caught my interest over the past week or so:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/one_helluva_twist_on_alice.html\">Here, via Chasing Ray<\/a>, comes a really cool-looking graphic novel by Bryan Talbot, who I  remember from Sandman days as well as from a more recent read, The Tale of One Bad Rat (which I SWEAR I reviewed, but I can&#8217;t find it&#8230;oh well).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of Neil Gaiman (sorta), check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/ramayana\">podcast from the British Library<\/a> about his film treatment of the great Indian epic Ramayana (and check out the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/onlinegallery\/sacredtexts\/ramayana.html\">online Ramayana exhibition<\/a>).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/359391.html\">Slayground<\/a>, some fabulous authors like Justina Chen Headley, Lisa Yee, Grace Lin, and Mitali Perkins, among others, are getting together to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusionstories.com\/\">Fusion Stories<\/a>, a website alerting interested readers in great new lit featuring Asian Americans. Hurrah! It looks like it&#8217;ll be a great resource.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Via the SCBWI newsletter, check out the nominees for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennys.ie\/categories\/bookawards\/\">Irish Children&#8217;s Book Awards<\/a> (scroll down for the two children&#8217;s book categories). I was pleased to see one of our Cybils SFF finalists, Skulduggery Pleasant, get a nod.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Last but not least, Cynsations has a nice interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/author-interview-carla-killough.html\">Carla Killough McClafferty<\/a>. Although Carla writes kids&#8217; nonfiction rather than YA fiction, I have to give her a nod because she is such a lovely person. When I sat next to her at the faculty dinner for the SCBWI summer conference last year, feeling like I must be a complete loser&#8211;as the only person there who hadn&#8217;t written a published book or otherwise been involved in the publication process; as a lowly blogger, sitting at a table with the likes of Cecil Castellucci and Roxyanne Young (of Smartwriters.com)&#8211;she made me feel welcome and encouraged. Thanks, Carla!<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes&#8211;our writer is slowly but surely recovering from that most insidious of repetitive mental stress disorders: writerly rejection. 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