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My Gallifrey audio is out today! You can hear a trailer and buy CDs or download from here.

Gallifrey is a series of audio plays, starring Louise Jameson and Lalla Ward, following the further exploits of Leela and Romana on the Time Lord home world. I've written a play for the forthcoming fifth series; David Llewellyn and James Peaty wrote the other two plays. This is my first audio for Big Finish - exciting!

Happy birthday,

infinitlight!

I was trying to find a found poem to teach tomorrow, but I couldn't find one, so I found one instead.

( Migration Drive )

I'm going to the Oxford Tolkien Spring School at the end of March, held at the English Faculty.

Does anyone have any recommendations for B&Bs in Oxford, preferably fairly central? Or other suggestions for places to stay? Thanking you!

Happy birthday

charlieallery!

So I was just on the Today programme on Radio 4 talking very briefly about Doctor Who. Catch me if you can, 8.23ish, here.

ETA: I'm reliably told it's on at 2hr 26mins and 30 secs.

ETA2: Now has its own link. Thanks

parrot_knight!

A palantír in the family.

( Farsightedness )

The new captain made little impression.

( Come athelas )

So as well as my forthcoming Blake's 7 audiobook (did I mention that?), I have a couple of other exciting projects in the works.

( Gallifrey )

( Star Trek: The Fall )

Can't go out this morning without posting my fab, brilliant, childhood-dream-coming-true news, which is that I have a Blake's 7 audio coming out from Big Finish later in the year. More here.

Wonderful well-read f'list, can you help

gillo with the following question that has come up in the course of her studies?

I am deep in The Essay currently, and working on a section about literary references. One I'm finding interesting is the heroine meeting the hero when he is on a horse - astride the mighty stallion, pulsing with power etcetc. Both Woolf and Holtby use it in the books I'm working on (Orlando and South Riding) but in interestingly different ways.

Can anyone think of any other examples, before 1928? I know about Jane Eyre, and there's another good one in Sense and Sensibility, but I'd like a few others if possible, especially in popular literature.

Original post is here.

I recorded an interview with the good people at Trek.FM at the end of the December, for their Literary Treks podcast. You can hear me blather away and ramble on here.

A very happy birthday to wonderful

curiouswombat! I'm so glad we got to meet this year!

And here are some old stories with a Christmassy flavour, some poignant, some sad, some happy, all hopeful:

A Pale Light Lingering
The old year ends, and Faramir makes the journey from Minas Tirith to Ithilien.

Spirits of the House
The old year ends, Boromir has not returned, and Denethor contemplates mortality. A seasonal AU.

The Use of Memory
"Memory is not what the heart desires..." Faramir and Arwen.

Mothers' Night
Faramir and Éowyn in Ithilien, weaving new traditions from old.

Hello LJ friends. I have bought some good gifts on your behalf:

Teach a mother to read
Support an Afghan girl
Fifty bowls of rice
Lighten the burden
Text books
A visit to the theatre, opera, or concert
Puffins Ahoy!

Very best to you all over the holiday season, and for 2013!

A very happy Gauda Prime Day to you all!

Current Mood: crazy

Happy birthday to the splendiferous

sugoll!

We saw The Hobbit!

( Read more... )

dwimordene_2011 did this meme over on her journal:

Pick a character I've written and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

I did a few over there, and here they are.

( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Denethor )

( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Finduilas )

( Altariel's Five Point Guide to Faramir )

Happy birthday,

gillo! Hope you've had a lovely day!

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