Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus.
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: “Kindle KDP customer service, how can I help?” I say, “I’m having… this feels so absolutely ridiculous—” “I wasn’t on your previous ten calls.” “They took my young adult urban fantasy mermaid novel off of the young adult urban fantasy mermaid category. It’s an absurd…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Once a quarter or so, someone will send me a reference to the English Royal Order of Adjectives — Our English Royal Order of Adjectives is invisible because — like all philosophy — most people like thinking a thing without thinking it through, without examining its ends,…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: I texted Kendall a note circulating on Substack by Alex and Vincenzo Barney quoting a professor who accused Murakami of being a one trick pony. I texted him for two reasons: one, Kendall loves Murakami and I haven’t read a single paragraph of the author; two, to troll…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Elizabeth Bear — The Hugo Award winning author of Ancestral Night and other books — sat down for a wide ranging interview about Rockapella, DOOM mods, RPGs, and death or glory stands to defend this run. Elizabeth won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Haven’t you heard that it’s the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print? That Mark 9 and I are re-releasing the digital version? Look, outside of scrolling, it never quite formatted well for e-readers. The iBooks version was like 5 gigabytes, so here we are,…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: The header photo from today’s episode is the one that made Mark 9 a finalist in the oldest photo competition in the world, Photo Spiva. It was judged that year by a curator from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography. It’s the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: We — Mark 9 and I — wanted to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, so we’re re-releasing the digital version (outside of scrolling, it doesn’t format well for e-readers). Feel free to support the team as the episodes release. One way to support…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: We — Mark 9 and I — wanted to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, so we’re re-releasing the digital version (outside of scrolling, it doesn’t format well for e-readers). Feel free to support the team as the episodes release. One way to support…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Mark 9 and I thought the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print was to re-release the digital version online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of scrolling. You can support it as the episodes release in two ways. One…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: As Mark 9 and I thought through the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, we realized the tiniest fraction of this audience saw it live online when we released it in our early twenties. We decided to re-release it serially online,…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: When my dad hooked back up with the babysitter he’d originally cheated on mom with, my siblings and I didn’t hear from him for a month. I was eating at a Texas barbecue joint a block from Times Square when that carpenter and millwright finally returned all of my ignored…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Three case studies on pieces of mine that were rejected often prior to publication as well as a list of typical reasons for rejection, intended as a metaphor for life. They answer to “Why they rejected you” is simpler than it seems: I find it a shock at this stage in life…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Dear JB Pritzker — Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this (and for all of you who shared it widely enough to reach his desk). I write to you today on behalf of a subject nearest and dearest to my heart: Little Egypt, Southern Illinois during historic floods. If…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: A decade ago, Mark Neuenschwander (photographer of these photos) and I delved the secret tunnels beneath Joplin, Missouri’s downtown district. We delved the Joplin tunnels with the knowledge of a couple members of City Hall. We had prior experience: do not delve these…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: My colleague and friend Dr. Shane J. Wood wrote a piece recently on Pride that reflects the state of my mind the last few years. I started this piece as a comment on his work and once it eclipsed 1,000 words, well… here we are. It seems to me part of the problem in our…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: “What is an antagonist” originally sold to Writer’s Digest as “An Outline for Pantsers.” Teasing out the logic of an antagonist helps me understand how to outline both works I’m writing and works I’m trying to research or remember. We’re focusing on narrative works today,…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: “What is a Poem” was Originally published in the Poet’s Market by Writer’s Digest Books under the title “Schematic for Sculpting Language.” As a young man, I complained I didn’t get poetry. The poetry world seemed broken in two: those who rhymed and those who didn’t.…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: I have often said though I cannot directly recommend George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire, if I discover you’ve read it, I’m happy to talk about it at length. Similarly, I personally will never watch the TV show Game of Thrones because I’m painfully aware, after how I…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Author’s Note: this post on fantasy religions was originally drafted for a handful of local writing friends with a more thorough catalogue. That piece was lost and due to some life circumstances, I rushed out this much less thorough piece for those friends assuming…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: John Wiswell is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose short fiction has won the Locus and Nebula Awards and been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut fantasy novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, was released in…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Photo by Reiseuhu on Unsplash Once upon a time there was a fantastical antediluvian epic about a world with three ages: an age of angels and their pre-edenic fall, an age of a sort of utopian garden and the fall of man, and the struggling of man before the coming of a…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Urgent: if since November you have replied to one of these newsletters via email, due to Substack’s default setting that only “paying subscribers” could reply, I did not receive your email. I’ve turned this default Substack feature off so everyone can respond to my emails.…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: I met Howard Tayler and Sandra Tayler at GenCon. I got the impression of lovely, joyful, and hilarious folks. There I asked them to do an interview about their creative relationship. We started right after GenCon and did this thing asynchronously through the fall up until…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Share Remember: it’s going to be a packed house at the Of Gods and Globes III reading on Tuesday night, with a special surprise famous guest. RSVP for the NYC reading here or to invite all of your tri-state area friends. The old Theodore Sturgeon adage goes: A science…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Photo by Chris Bair on Unsplash Most come here first for the science fiction and weird anecdotes while others come here for my occasional prophetic frothing against ideologies that, for instance, support Nazis. Though I promise to get to the Nazis, I want to lead-in with…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Originally sold to Forgotten Ground Regained and Alliteration, who have spearheaded the modern revival in alliterative poetry and catalogued all of my alliterative poems in their archive’s index. Photo by Dawn Casey on Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Photo by Nikolay Maslov on Unsplash So far, all of my check-ins for Los Angeles sound at least physically safe — if you aren’t and you’re reading this, my comfort for your loss. If you lost your home, also my comfort for your loss. Let us know in the comments how this…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Photo by Pete Godfrey on Unsplash Sometimes money is power, but sometimes power is money—especially in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere. When we look at the various currency systems within Sanderson’s worlds, we find that he often inextricably fuses each economy to its local…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called “lies,” and he writes non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstör, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you’ll ever need. It has been translated into 14…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: So I started a Substack and kicked it off with a bang through a piece cowritten with sports data journalist Isaac Schade. Here’s how it begins: The Mets have never loyally served Brooklyn as a team and that’s particularly poignant with the Dodgers beating the Yankees this…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: So I started a Substack and kicked it off with a bang through a piece cowritten with sports data journalist Isaac Schade. Here’s how it begins: The Mets have never loyally served Brooklyn as a team and that’s particularly poignant with the Dodgers beating the Yankees this…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Signatures: Goal: Read more posts like " Change the L.A. Dodgers to the L.A. Honkers " at The Showbear Family Circus .
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: We have a segment of our writers critique circle Discord that’s exclusively reserved for worldbuilding ideas and this morning we ended up delving into stone slings, the slurs upon them, Swiss arrows, Dutch arrows, and Athletels. I sort of kicked it off with showing this…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Here’s a shot I got a few days back of Prospect Park lake: I hope you enjoy it and it makes you want to come to Brooklyn Read more posts like " Prospect Park lake " at The Showbear Family Circus .
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: My earliest and most favorite collaborator — Brandon Goostree — released this coloring book pumpkin on the front cover of his halloween coloring pages for adults and kids. There’s a great blend of scary halloween coloring and funnier stuff for kids. I asked him a few…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of…
Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert s and Tara Schaubert s liberal arts circus. said :: Read more posts like " Stop Plastic Bottles Graffiti " at The Showbear Family Circus .