The way that sleeping in a bed that isn't your home bed, in your late 40s, can cause your whole body to turn into a toothpick village overnight, and then into a flaming heap of bad sticks.
Maria Dahvana Headley
@mariadahvana.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
If you're part of the SFF Community you know Sheila - and if you don't know her personally, you know the work she's done. She's a kind and inspiring person who's been kicking ass editing and helping writers for years and years. If you've got some to give, give some. ❤️
Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 5d agoOk folks, Sheila and her family need our help. You might know her as the editor of Asimov’s, but she's also a good friend and one of the best people in the field. If you can, please... www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
Ok folks, Sheila and her family need our help. You might know her as the editor of Asimov’s, but she's also a good friend and one of the best people in the field. If you can, please... www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
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Here's a fundraiser for bridge care for Sheila Williams - the legendary SF editor. She had a series of bad health events in December & she's making major progress but...American healthcare! She was her husband's primary caregiver too. All of this is a lot. Help out if you can. gofund.me/309ee2b0c
Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
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John Crowley was a kind & generous man, one of a handful of really great writers I have been lucky enough to know. He showed up for the SF Symposium I organized for Grolier Club exhibition A Conversation larger than the Universe (2018). Here he is with @mariadahvana.bsky.social / it was a fun party
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 6d agoI'm sorry to hear that John Crowley has left the land of the living. Whenever we happened to meet, we talked about strange wonders and lost languages. He had a mind full of magical things, and was always delighted to discuss. May he travel to an interesting ever-afterlife.
Working, working & spending the whole summer cleaning out my mom's house & putting her to rest, while also traveling the whole west & never going home. We've been traveling since June 13. Her memorial is in Boise, 8/22, & then we fly. School starts for Grim on 8/24. I'm frriiiiiiiiiiied.
The best way to honor John Crowley, take a couple minutes and read aloud the last paragraph of Little, Big.
Farewell to John Crowley. Though he was respected and won awards, he's long seemed to me phenomenally under-appreciated for the level of his work. (The short stories alone would be enough to solidify any other career as that of genius.) One day maybe the world will catch up to his wonder.
Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show@vmspod.bsky.social · 6d agoRIP #JohnCrowley. Go read LITTLE, BIG, the AEGYPT cycle, KA, ENGINE SUMMER, and more. One of the most amazing, inventive writer I ever recorded with. Our talks: 2013 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-r... 2017 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-2... 2022 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-4...
in memoriam : John Crowley 1 December 1942 - 8 August 2026 a great writer, a great reader, & a great friend endlessbookshelf.net/2022/12/10/s...
Sorry to learn we've lost John Crowley, seen here during happier times at Readercon 2007 with Paul Di Filippo. Readercon was where we had our best chats, which meant even while I enjoyed this year's gathering, I was still conscious at times of his absence, and the hole it left. He will be missed.
I'm sorry to hear that John Crowley has left the land of the living. Whenever we happened to meet, we talked about strange wonders and lost languages. He had a mind full of magical things, and was always delighted to discuss. May he travel to an interesting ever-afterlife.
Here's a Women in Translation Month event with me, at Oldspeak in Boise Idaho, the bookstore bar with the Beowulf wallpaper in the bathroom! It's August 19, and it's going to be fabulous. Come!
August is #WomeninTranslationMonth We don't have an event tonight so have time for recommendations. Tell us what you like and we'll recommend a book written in another language than English by a woman!
Spent part of the evening watching the Mines of Moria section of LOTR with a new generation of viewers aged 11, 12, 21 and 22, and man, drums in the deep continue to go very hard.
Come take a class with me! Got a few spots left, and this one's gonna be extremely fun. Also extremely full of me and my red pen. Want my editorial attention? You can get it here. Link is in the bio.
*standing up on the plane* Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days, everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times...
Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 2w ago*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen
Teaching a summer class on fixing everything that's wrong....in your first five pages. I know. I wish I could teach you how to fix everything that's wrong in the damn universe. But I can definitely help your manuscript kick some serious ass. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/firs...
Craft Seminar: The First Five Pages: Making A Beginning That Sells Your Book with Maria Dahvana Headley — The Shipman Agency
4 Sessions: Thursdays, August 6, 13, 20, 27 6:00-8:00pm ET Maria Dahvana Headley Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times -bestselling, Hugo , and World Fantasy Award-winning author...
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GIVE US BIG-SCREEN BEOWULF AS TRANSLATED BY @mariadahvana.bsky.social, YOU COWARDS
Beowulf: A New Translation
Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fic...
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Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
larger implications aside it’s always funny when an LRB piece breaks containment because it’s like a crowd shows up with machetes on your porch and you are. an old Man whittling whistles or making cups out of willow bark
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
💯 And I’d add that the opinions of academics/translators, while obviously valid and important, are just inevitably going to be skewed in a certain direction. If you’ve spent your whole professional life studying a specific text, you will be attached to it in a way no adaptation can likely satisfy.
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3w agoThing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.
Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.
Ps: how do I open my DMs? I thought they were open but it seems they are not! Can anyone help me?
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3w agoSome items from my mom's estate are in my possession to be sold - & I thought I'd offer them up to people I know who like gorgeous things! I'm likely going to list them somewhere if I don't sell them myself. 1) a 1st edition The Ship That Sailed to Mars (1923), in great shape. DM if you want info.
Some items from my mom's estate are in my possession to be sold - & I thought I'd offer them up to people I know who like gorgeous things! I'm likely going to list them somewhere if I don't sell them myself. 1) a 1st edition The Ship That Sailed to Mars (1923), in great shape. DM if you want info.
Dreamed that I was at a cursed event, an author escape room at an enormous library. All the authors had to work together to get out. But we didn't want out. Well, some of us did. And those guys were aggressive.
This year, man. It's hard to lose your mom, and simultaneously try to find creative work inside your skull, then, just as you're coming back to yourself, to go into her house and sort through all her papers and photos and favorite things. And we still aren't at her memorial yet. 💔