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Yep, my debut novel Marian ilmestyskirja (Maria's Book of Revelations) was supposed to come out in the spring, but due to various delays it has only been released now. It's in Finnish, but there is an info page in English, too, and a book trailer which is Finnish only, but very visual, so it's worth watching even if you don't know Finnish. It has gathered many positive, even glowing reviews and has been featured in several Finnish magazines, small ones, but still. I was also interviewed on DA.
I also got a grant for my next novel Häpeämätön (Shameless), the third (and probably last) novel of my cripfic trilogy, which I'm starting to write tomorrow for NaNoWriMo. A lovely surprise. I've applied for three grants in the last year and got two, the other for my new medical textbook, which will be out next month. If nothing else can be deduced from this, it is that I am good at writing grant applications - a very useful skill for someone who writes books for a living. I'd also like to see it as a signal that my work, writing both fiction and non-fiction about chronic illnesses, is seen as important.
Other than writing life has been pretty nice (but my life is mostly writing). It's nice not to have to be in Finland, and to have a doctor I don't have to advise and train any more. I'm on some new meds, like an antiviral drug (which isn't even sold in Finland) and some hormones. I haven't really had the time for visual art and my photography has mostly been focused on the food book that will be out next year. Not much time for poetry either, I'm afraid, but I have written some short fiction and several new stories are underway. When it comes to short fiction I almost exclusively write scifi and cripfic these days.
P.S. How is it possible, that every time I log on DA after a few months, it's even buggier than before? Besides breaking everything else, thanks for doing it to my header, too.
Current works
Works in progress
novel #8
four short stories
four haiku
some other poems
my sociomedical essay series
Works finished but not yet submitted
a haiku
three scifi drabbles
five pieces of 55-word fiction
four longer short stories
ten ASCII pictures
an acrylic painting
a digital painting
a whole bunch of photos
Works I wish to start in the near future
several poems
some crafts
henna tattooing
molding clay sculpture
Non-art/DA TODO (inconclusive)
promoting my novel
a food book
medical articles
studying Dutch
studying Spanish
an LDN brochure
some query letters and pitches
some guest blogs
content for my Finnish CFS/ME site
My preliminary schedule for the following months
15th October Occupy Amsterdam
21st October my novel's release date
31st October NaNoWriMo meeting
1st-30th November NaNoWriMo
3rd November dance show
7th November NaNoWriMo meeting
14th November NaNoWriMo meeting
21st November NaNoWriMo meeting
28th November NaNoWriMo meeting
1st December husband's birthday
I was interviewed by
, read the interview in <a href="radicalpuppy4.deviantart.com/j…">his journal.
wrote a poem dedicated to my ASCII art. It's quite good too!
I've set up a discussion thread for my sociomedical essay series on my forum, please read it and contribute if you have any opinions.
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Supporting photo-class suture onewordatatime Lit-Source poeticks Reporters Activists ArtistsForCharity fotoFRIDAY WordCount LineCount litNEWS DisabilityArt fm-me-club
Website My CFS/ME/FM book Flickr YouTube Wishlist Articles on Suite 101 My novel: The Atlas Moth Vegventures food blog
Yep, my debut novel Marian ilmestyskirja (Maria's Book of Revelations) was supposed to come out in the spring, but due to various delays it has only been released now. It's in Finnish, but there is an info page in English, too, and a book trailer which is Finnish only, but very visual, so it's worth watching even if you don't know Finnish. It has gathered many positive, even glowing reviews and has been featured in several Finnish magazines, small ones, but still. I was also interviewed on DA.
I also got a grant for my next novel Häpeämätön (Shameless), the third (and probably last) novel of my cripfic trilogy, which I'm starting to write tomorrow for NaNoWriMo. A lovely surprise. I've applied for three grants in the last year and got two, the other for my new medical textbook, which will be out next month. If nothing else can be deduced from this, it is that I am good at writing grant applications - a very useful skill for someone who writes books for a living. I'd also like to see it as a signal that my work, writing both fiction and non-fiction about chronic illnesses, is seen as important.
Other than writing life has been pretty nice (but my life is mostly writing). It's nice not to have to be in Finland, and to have a doctor I don't have to advise and train any more. I'm on some new meds, like an antiviral drug (which isn't even sold in Finland) and some hormones. I haven't really had the time for visual art and my photography has mostly been focused on the food book that will be out next year. Not much time for poetry either, I'm afraid, but I have written some short fiction and several new stories are underway. When it comes to short fiction I almost exclusively write scifi and cripfic these days.
P.S. How is it possible, that every time I log on DA after a few months, it's even buggier than before? Besides breaking everything else, thanks for doing it to my header, too.
Current works
Works in progress
novel #8 four short stories four haiku some other poems my sociomedical essay seriesWorks finished but not yet submitted
a haiku three scifi drabbles five pieces of 55-word fiction four longer short stories ten ASCII pictures an acrylic painting a digital painting a whole bunch of photosWorks I wish to start in the near future
several poems some crafts henna tattooing molding clay sculptureNon-art/DA TODO (inconclusive)
promoting my novel a food book medical articles studying Dutch studying Spanish an LDN brochure some query letters and pitches some guest blogs content for my Finnish CFS/ME siteMy preliminary schedule for the following months
15th October Occupy Amsterdam
21st October my novel's release date
31st October NaNoWriMo meeting
1st-30th November NaNoWriMo
3rd November dance show
7th November NaNoWriMo meeting
14th November NaNoWriMo meeting
21st November NaNoWriMo meeting
28th November NaNoWriMo meeting
1st December husband's birthday
I was interviewed by
, read the interview in <a href="radicalpuppy4.deviantart.com/j…">his journal. wrote a poem dedicated to my ASCII art. It's quite good too!I've set up a discussion thread for my sociomedical essay series on my forum, please read it and contribute if you have any opinions.
My stock diamondie-stock
Member of critiqueme fi
Supporting photo-class suture onewordatatime Lit-Source poeticks Reporters Activists ArtistsForCharity fotoFRIDAY WordCount LineCount litNEWS DisabilityArt fm-me-club
Website
My CFS/ME/FM book Flickr YouTube Wishlist Articles on Suite 101 My novel: The Atlas Moth Vegventures food blog
A whirlwind year
It's been many years. And this year has been incredibly weird, and that doesn't even begin to cover it. I won't go into detail about the non-art stuff, but having your personality completely change in an instant, half a dozen times, has been great and fascinating but also disorienting and alienating. Last year I started recording hypnosis and meditation audios and more poetry for my YouTube channel, and those have received great feedback but alas, I got sicker and can't do that much any more. Earlier this year my beloved muse enticed me to start pencil drawing and I turned out to be pretty good at it (I thought I can't draw). I tried my hand at watercolors, which I always saw as an impossible medium, but turns out it's not. Alas, I again got sicker, as things tend to go, and have hardly been able to do any art for over six months. I've written over 250 poems this year, thanks to both my muse and the massive cognitive overhaul I've experienced. It feels like after 30+ years of
Alive-ish
It's been a while. A few years. Quite a few since I essentially stopped using DA because of the extremely abusive admins (my comment average is still 4.2 comments a day!). I'm not sure if anyone I know is still reading this. Lots of stuff has been happening, good and bad. The Netherlands is a wonderful place. When I got away from Finland life was great for a while. I could work 15-hour days despite the CFS/ME, thanks to LDN. I thought my nightmare was finally over. Until November 2011, when my pituitary was destroyed by sabotage. Hypopituitarism is one really shitty illness and has put me close to death more times than I can count. Also very
Release of my novel etc
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So my first novel Marian ilmestyskirja will be coming out from Muruja next month. The taboo-breaking cripfic has already got about 10 reviews in book blogs, including a few absolutely glowing ones (I couldn't have come up with better ones if I tried!). I made an English info page about the book which includes a sample. Still hoping to find an international publisher for it! Disabled people deser
Where did 2010 go?
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2010 was an interesting and wonderful year, one of my best. I accomplished and experienced many things, both things I expected, things I only dreamed about and things I really didn't expect. The most important ones were of course moving to the Netherlands, and signing a contract for a novel, something I had been dreaming about for 21 years.
NaNoWriMo was both easier and harder, mostly easier, t
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Belated congratulations. 