tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19363709547838339002024-03-09T21:45:45.789-05:00probably just a storyfor continuity's sakeLaura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.comBlogger453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-78923326901191644902012-02-17T17:40:00.003-05:002012-02-17T17:40:34.686-05:00It'll never work, right? (warning: boring writer post)I'm still pretty sick from the cold transmitted to me via the smooch that sealed the renewal of our vows for our 25th Wedding Anniversary (the party was alien themed, and the house was completely PACKED). However, I hauled ass into work yesterday and while my students were in small group sessions, I think I sketched out the plan for the new novel. The ideas have been floating overhead like Mike Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-66626326724156273452012-02-01T10:29:00.003-05:002012-02-01T10:29:40.507-05:00New Interview, New BlogI'm so happy to be interviewed at The Nervous Breakdown by Jen Michalski. Much is revealed. Some of what I have to say may well bite me in the ass.
Also, we've dumped the go daddy site and switched Laura Ellen Scott over to a wordpress template. I'm still playing with it, but I wanted something brighter, busier, etc than what we had.
Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-10736358674699994092012-01-10T18:16:00.000-05:002012-01-10T18:16:03.590-05:00Back to being a novelistDeath Wishing did not make a lot of year end lists, but it seems to be getting steady lovin'. Just yesterday, Scott Garson posted a moving little review on his blog--which he hardly EVER updates, so a mention there feels pretty damned special. A couple of weeks ago, Robert Swartwood included DW in his year-ender, which doesn't feature much in the way of chick-lit. On New Year's day, DW was pickedLaura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-87140988602792574902012-01-10T17:23:00.000-05:002012-01-10T17:23:13.549-05:00January 9, 2011Celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We'll be having a party in February, where we plan to re-marry in an alien-themed ceremony. Yesterday we went to art galleries, ate and drank like sailors, and ordered Dean a new wedding band. He destroyed his burying a cat a few years ago.Left to Right: Father of the groom, Mother of groom, Bro of groom, Gram 1, Groom, Bride, Gram 2. This was taken at ourLaura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-7744685014343829662012-01-04T19:58:00.001-05:002012-01-04T19:58:31.696-05:00OyLaura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-60234766297872553192011-12-23T12:09:00.000-05:002011-12-23T12:09:18.752-05:00Curio the creeperUnexpectedly, Curio is getting some year end attention. I hope you enjoy this interview in jmww. Beth Buchannan is the Writer-in-Residence at St. Alban's school in DC, and we talked at length after she invited me out to speak to her creative writing students in October.Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-63327897983374440102011-12-22T19:49:00.000-05:002011-12-23T09:35:49.551-05:00heart sickWednesday was a a bad one. Thursday wasn't so hot, either. We learned that the cause of our little Einstein's loss of appetite over the past 10 days was an inoperable mass constricting her small intestine. The oncologist detected several types of "bizarre" cancerous cells(her words, and she's a big deal researcher), none of which was reasonable to treat. She also said Einie's level of discomfort Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-10075190664089906762011-12-19T08:45:00.000-05:002011-12-19T08:45:00.899-05:00Top secrets of 2011A very literary baby boy is due today, but then so are final projects for my class, and I bet those are gonna be late, too. Thinking good thoughts about little no-name-yet.
Speaking of the final project, this year I'm a genius. Instead of requiring a revision, portfolio or self-evaluative essay, I made my students interview each other--Smokelong style. The results, so far, have been amazing. Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-13135415213695240472011-12-15T09:56:00.001-05:002011-12-15T18:13:40.579-05:00Big Deal Round Up, Florida editionI'm writing this in the Palm Beach International Terminal after a great visit with mom.
This morning my notes on "Being Indie" went up at the TNBBC blog.
Yesterday, The Orlando Sentinel recommended Death Wishing as a Holiday gift pick for hipsters.
The always-wonderful Jen Michalski also recommended DW as holiday pick at Karen Lillis' blog, Karen the Small Press Librarian.
And on Tuesday I Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-31063315251527727792011-12-02T09:15:00.001-05:002011-12-02T09:22:31.741-05:00Lurvely New ReviewsAbout Death Wishing
In the intro to my Book Notes Death Wishing Playlist largehearted boy says DW is a "charming and unforgettable comic fantasy that begs to be adapted into a feature film."
About Curio
Jack Kaulfus thinks my shorts are disturbing, in a good way.Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-34596354038785586422011-11-26T11:38:00.001-05:002011-11-26T11:43:53.288-05:00Is this for real?According to the tickets/pass site for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, I'll be on this panel:
Women to Watch: Bright new talents Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones), Ellen Baker (I Gave My Heart to Know This), Laura Ellen Scott (Death Wishing), and Jessica Maria Tuccelli (Glow) will discuss their latest works and their rise in the literary world.
That's right. Jesmyn Ward. Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-49377680391202545042011-11-23T15:09:00.001-05:002011-11-23T15:10:48.033-05:00Giveaway at Goodreads--in time for for Solstice Day!<!-- Show static html as a placeholder in case js is not enabled -->
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But now no more travel until mid DecemberLaura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-75939802261146710022011-11-19T09:45:00.001-05:002011-11-19T10:38:06.614-05:00BIG WeekSo this week was/continues to be a whopper, starting off with a packed reading at Brooklyn's Greenlight Books, which was a semi-sloshy hoot with my publisher providing home-made hurricanes and Zapp's potato chips. Erin Fitzgerald trekked out to provide moral support and logistics, but I was reading on my own, no matter what this chalk and slate promised:
I stayed on the 19th floor of a Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-43599955465367074922011-11-14T15:22:00.001-05:002011-11-14T15:28:43.851-05:003 fab things1) The provost has approved my promotion to Term Full Professor and the reappointment of my contract for five more years, effective August 2012. So I'm booked until 2017.
2) An amazing, a wee-bit spoiler-y review of Death Wishing at David Allen Barker's excellent blog.
3) My contribution to The Story, So Far feature at The Northville Review. (Yeah, I don't know what I'm talking Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-25400261771223821352011-11-13T14:26:00.001-05:002011-11-13T14:27:45.010-05:00Writing TipWhen writing fiction, try to make it up.Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-53463558457898309022011-11-13T13:44:00.001-05:002011-11-13T14:26:11.244-05:00Book tour adjustments, dramaBack from readings in San Francisco (City Lights) and Seattle (Elliott Bay), only to learn that the author with whom I had been partnered is unable to continue with our schedule and will not be attending any of this week's events (Brooklyn, Providence, Arlington VA, & DC). As the Providence stop was something he had arranged with friends, that won't be happening now. However, Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-85233473971645994572011-11-06T19:51:00.000-05:002011-11-06T19:52:27.904-05:00West Coast Beckons, plus mentions and reviewsOff to San Francisco's City Lights for a reading Wednesday the 9th, and then to Seattle's Elliot Bay Book Company for a reading on Friday, the 11th. Both with start at 7pm. Love this mention about the Seattle reading: "Scott's Death Wishing is about a world in which wishing actually does something for a frickin' change." I've never been out to these parts of the country, so forgive my ignorance, Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-7166913382278211252011-11-04T18:56:00.002-04:002011-11-04T18:56:43.384-04:00The Other Kind of PromotionA week ago I was in a room in what has been called the most haunted hotel in New Orleans, getting ready to out to a restaurant where later we'd disagree about the steak I'd ordered; it was either carved from God's back or merely "cooked in fuck" (Dean's theory). But before that, I got a call from one of my colleagues telling me that the department had met that day and unanimously voted to Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-89999816279840813532011-10-30T19:21:00.000-04:002011-10-30T19:21:47.654-04:00More from the Louisiana Book FestivalWe are back from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where I did three
events--readings with Mark Yakich at The Garden District Bookstore and
Antenna Gallery, and a panel on post-Katrina novels at the Louisiana
Book Festival, which was a terrrific, inspiring event. I presented with
the amazing Rosalyn Story, author of Wading Home, a novel that you need. right. now. Gorgeous prose and a riveting Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-3074428771341511582011-10-30T19:18:00.000-04:002011-10-30T19:22:20.879-04:00Not enough data, surelyAt the Louisiana Book Festival, a woman came up to the table, picked up the book and gestured at me with it--as if I might not know what book she was talking about otherwise.
She asked, "Is this good for a book club?" She never even bothered to read the back.
"I think so," I said. "I'm speaking to a book club about it this weekend, in fact."
"Oh what book club? I belong to Amy's book club."
Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-12369013915400899022011-10-22T15:10:00.000-04:002011-10-22T15:10:23.290-04:00Spotted in the wild, Plus the Poets & Writers Page OneA friend sent these along. They're from the Barnes & Noble out at Tyson's Center:
Very cool. I'm also told I need to make a much bigger deal out of making Poet's & Writers Page One: Where New & Noteworthy Books Begin column.Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-30018702174296848972011-10-21T15:25:00.001-04:002011-10-21T20:28:51.261-04:00nice things and an updateupdate first--the sun is setting on the giveaway of the kindle version of Death Wishing, but on terms that everyone can live with. Not sure when the Amazonians will flip the switch to OFF, so make sure your friends get their freebie before it's gone.
Many more positive reviews now than stinkers, and among the latest is a lovely capsule review on Shelf Awareness. The reviewer, Natalie Papailiou,Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-42215268876199586652011-10-18T17:28:00.000-04:002011-10-18T17:28:41.239-04:00I want to believe!First up, a big thanks to Robert Swartwood, who let me blabber on about a particular kind of murder book. Rob's latest is a collection of short fiction called, Phantom Energy, which looks like a winner.
Second, I just received my formal invitation to panel at The 26th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in March of 2012. Yes, this is the festival with the Stella/Stanley Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1936370954783833900.post-8182145980411718042011-10-14T11:54:00.000-04:002011-10-14T11:54:37.672-04:00Another weird week, yeahMost of the week has been slow-no sales, but I've been feeling the love. Three people close to me are in mid-read of Death Wishing, and they chose to gush at me about it yesterday, which, along with the posting of my Recommended Reading list at Ravi Mangla's excellent site, took the edge off my anxiety about the unexplained delay in launching the free Kindle version.
And then there is/was today.Laura Ellen Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03068789134779639240noreply@blogger.com0