Marly Youmans's Blog, page 10

A illustration by Galen Dara for one of my stories.

Because certain foreign readers (in countries with some difficulty in affordable book ordering) wanted to read more of my poems and stories, I have updated my record on my Short stories and poems page.

Though I tend to be a bit careless about record-keeping, I've added stories and poems, and I have added a lot of links. I hope that people

BRAND NEW INTERVIEW

There's a long new Charis in the World of Wonders interview, one with lots of pictures that Chris Rice Cooper has put together. Some are things she requested, some are things she quarried online. She asked lots of questions, and there's an excerpt as well.  If you're a nosey sort (who isn't curious?), you might like to take a look around, as there are glimpses of my bedroom

Charis in the World of Wonders 

and poems: updatery!



Anak Krakatoa erupted on Good Friday, locusts afflict Africa, the pandemic rages everywhere, Etobicoke Creek ran as red as blood: maybe you had better get started on your quarantine reading of Charis in the World of Wonders...



"Q and A with Marly Youmans, Author of Charis In The World Of Wonders" - interview at Women Writer, Women's

About the Image

Pietro Lorenzetti, Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, 1320. Painted 27 years before the peak intensity of the Black Death began. 700 years after Lorenzetti painted this image, it is Palm Sunday in The Long Lent. The very Long Lent. Public domain image, Wikipedia.


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Marly-words

(or, what I've been working on lately)

The Iorenzetti is pilfered from my own facebook site.

Pete Candler's storytelling project--an edifice of words and images to be built during our time of pandemic, and glancing back to Boccaccio and the time of the Black Death--begins. Like Boccaccio's Decameron,  A New Decameron will rejoice in a multitude of narratives. Right now you'll find a trailer (including one of my poems as part of an introduction from Pete) and print versions (audio

Since most of the online responses to my books and even to blog-post commentary occur on social media, I thought I'd post a few of my favorite facebook posts and twitter tweets of the past days... Charis in the World of Wonders and The Book of the Red King are naturals to pop up now because one is out this week and the other is recent, but Thaliad has come in for some new love, as it deals with a

Peacock by Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor Charis in the World of WondersIgnatius Press, 26 March 2020






It's quiet in the village today. My amaryllis is silently, slowly opening. Though we're near the hospital, there is little traffic going by, and a good many Sunday villagers are or have been or will be snug in a comfy chair, watching the streaming services of their local church... or not, as they

Tuesday, March 17, 2020





The Great Pandemic Book Launch and Frolic; otherwise known as the Marvelous, the Mystical, the Fantastical Saint Patrick's Day Book Party for Marly Youmans's Charis in the World of Wonders









Ethereal Reception to Follow

Place: In your airy, wondrous imagination

Book release date: 17 March 2020 St. Patrick's Day

Time: 12:01 a.m. - 11:59 p.m.

Book Party 

Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins




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Sunny California

I had a wondrous time at Fujimura Institute with Joe Gallagher, Makoto Fujimura, Pete Candler, Jia Kim, Esther Meek, Curt Thompson, and Shann Ray. And some other in-residence Fujimura Fellows. Writers, filmmakers, philosopher, neuropsychiatrist, painter, cellist! Many chats, interviews, and a concert...

Most of all, thank you to Joe and Mako

Some time next month I shall be abandoning my family at home (wishing particularly good luck to the job-hunting son while I'm away) and heading to Fujimura Institute in Pasadena, and I have many things to accomplish before that date. So I'll be ignoring my blog for a while, unless something surprising happens.

In book news, Charis in the World of Wonders is back from the printers and looks