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A Million Different People from One Day to the Next
Account with Permanent package of service Created on 3 November 2004 (#5027933) Last updated on 5 June 2013
Name:
JoSelle
Birthdate:
1980
Website:
Schools:
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United Kingdom (1991 - 1998)
- Xavier Institute for Higher Learning - North Salem, NY (1998 - 2011)
For community purposes: yes, I am well over 18. I was born in 1980 which makes me a robust 30. I simply haven't included the day and month for security reasons. :3
Jo is a theatre worker turned writer and journalist who lives in a Red State notoriously located somewhere between California and Nebraska. She likes intelligent discussion, rooms with a view, and moonlit walks along the beach. Especially if the jelly fish are out.
I have dual honors BAs in English and Theatre, an addiction to work and literature, and a rather unthealthy interest in the Old West, the Elizabethan/Jacobean era and its theatre, Mormon history, folklore and fairy tales, theatre history, academia, investigative journalism and human anatomy. I am what happens to good people when they are given books and left to their own devices. Fear me.
I spend most of my time writing or wishing I was writing, which makes my non-writing work...interesting. I've lived all over the United States and have many intersting stories about each region which I will probably tell some day, and probably tell here. Many of them are about Jo's Wild Years on the wicked stage.
Since disclaimers about friending are in fashion, if not obligatory, here's mine: I tend to friend everyone who friends me unless your journal is 1) entirely empty, 2) exclusively written in a language I can't understand, which would be everything but English and Spanish, though I can fake my way a little through Italian (I mean, what's the point of communicating if we can't talk to each other, yeah? :3 or 3) filled with quizes/memes/color bars and nothing but. I love meeting new people, even though I can get busy at times and a little slow/non responsive in comments. My LJ comment policy is pretty loose, but I ask that you please not derail or hijack posts by adding comments that have nothing at all to do with the subject at hand, especially if you're trying to reach me. A better way to do that is by PM or email. I am not a hard person to contact, folks :).
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This Be The Verse:
"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."
- Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
- Robertson Davies
Places on the web:
Ars Memoria, my official Web site.
My Googlepage, updated a bit more frequently.
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Forthcoming and Published Works.
10,000 Several Doors: Ebook Poetry Collection from Cat's Eye Publishing. Released December 24, 2005. Out of Print. Company has folded. Please email me if you're *heh* desperate for a copy.
Anthologies Edited:
Sleeping Beauty, Indeed: Anthology of Lesbian Fairytales from Torquere Press May 2006. Reprinted 2009 by Lethe Press.
Hellebore $ Rue (with Catherine Lundoff): anthology about lesbian magic users (Drollerie Press, Oct. 2010)
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories: just what it says on the tin. (Torquere Press, Ded. 2010)
The Tale of the Miller's Daughter: Released June 1, 2006 from Papaveria Press.
Owl Skin Forthcoming from Papaveria Press.
Godfather Death (mini book) May 2008 Papaveria Press
Death Masks (poetry collection) Coming soon from Papaveria Press
A four book as yet unnamed series of poetry and short stories from Papaveria Press, to be released throughout 2007 and 2008 in a special hard bound edition. The first of these, Desert Dreams, will be released in 2008.
The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told, Poetry Collection (Sam's Dot Publishing, July 2008)
Ossuary: poetry for Erzebet YellowBoy's art, Sam's Dot Publishing, Sept. 1, 2007 Nominated for the 2007 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry
The Memory Palace: Autobiographical poetry collection about growing up gay, depressed and other forms of "Other" in Utah. Norilana Books, January 2009.
The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities Contributor, ("The Most Important Letter of Your Life"), May 9,2006.
Desert Songs, poetry chap book from Cross Cultural Communications! 2008. (more info to follow as it becomes available)
Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts and Monsters, poetry collection from VanZeno Press. Probably 2008, that's what we're shooting for, anyway.
The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother, poetry chap book from Ash Phoenix Press. March, 2007.
For published and forthcoming poems and short stories, please visit this post
A good friend of mine has written this hilarious book. Please check it out!
JOIN?
My Harry Potter fan code: BHB MOP1* DU+ SB- B+++++QB M+++ C+ FF DU|CF! SS|LE- AD/GG+ AD/HS -
Jo is a theatre worker turned writer and journalist who lives in a Red State notoriously located somewhere between California and Nebraska. She likes intelligent discussion, rooms with a view, and moonlit walks along the beach. Especially if the jelly fish are out.
I have dual honors BAs in English and Theatre, an addiction to work and literature, and a rather unthealthy interest in the Old West, the Elizabethan/Jacobean era and its theatre, Mormon history, folklore and fairy tales, theatre history, academia, investigative journalism and human anatomy. I am what happens to good people when they are given books and left to their own devices. Fear me.
I spend most of my time writing or wishing I was writing, which makes my non-writing work...interesting. I've lived all over the United States and have many intersting stories about each region which I will probably tell some day, and probably tell here. Many of them are about Jo's Wild Years on the wicked stage.
Since disclaimers about friending are in fashion, if not obligatory, here's mine: I tend to friend everyone who friends me unless your journal is 1) entirely empty, 2) exclusively written in a language I can't understand, which would be everything but English and Spanish, though I can fake my way a little through Italian (I mean, what's the point of communicating if we can't talk to each other, yeah? :3 or 3) filled with quizes/memes/color bars and nothing but. I love meeting new people, even though I can get busy at times and a little slow/non responsive in comments. My LJ comment policy is pretty loose, but I ask that you please not derail or hijack posts by adding comments that have nothing at all to do with the subject at hand, especially if you're trying to reach me. A better way to do that is by PM or email. I am not a hard person to contact, folks :).
*
This Be The Verse:
"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."
- Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
- Robertson Davies
Places on the web:
Ars Memoria, my official Web site.
My Googlepage, updated a bit more frequently.
CURRENT MOON
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Forthcoming and Published Works.
Anthologies Edited:
Sleeping Beauty, Indeed: Anthology of Lesbian Fairytales from Torquere Press May 2006. Reprinted 2009 by Lethe Press.
Hellebore $ Rue (with Catherine Lundoff): anthology about lesbian magic users (Drollerie Press, Oct. 2010)
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories: just what it says on the tin. (Torquere Press, Ded. 2010)
The Tale of the Miller's Daughter: Released June 1, 2006 from Papaveria Press.
Owl Skin Forthcoming from Papaveria Press.
Godfather Death (mini book) May 2008 Papaveria Press
Death Masks (poetry collection) Coming soon from Papaveria Press
A four book as yet unnamed series of poetry and short stories from Papaveria Press, to be released throughout 2007 and 2008 in a special hard bound edition. The first of these, Desert Dreams, will be released in 2008.
The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told, Poetry Collection (Sam's Dot Publishing, July 2008)
Ossuary: poetry for Erzebet YellowBoy's art, Sam's Dot Publishing, Sept. 1, 2007 Nominated for the 2007 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry
The Memory Palace: Autobiographical poetry collection about growing up gay, depressed and other forms of "Other" in Utah. Norilana Books, January 2009.
The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities Contributor, ("The Most Important Letter of Your Life"), May 9,2006.
Desert Songs, poetry chap book from Cross Cultural Communications! 2008. (more info to follow as it becomes available)
Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts and Monsters, poetry collection from VanZeno Press. Probably 2008, that's what we're shooting for, anyway.
The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother, poetry chap book from Ash Phoenix Press. March, 2007.
For published and forthcoming poems and short stories, please visit this post
A good friend of mine has written this hilarious book. Please check it out!
JOIN?
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