Alison's Blog
Linda K. Sienkiewicz tells us all about SECURITY
Wed, 2010-07-07 08:05 | by alison
Linda K. Sienkiewicz is a poet and novelist. She is represented by Chelsea Gilmore and Maria Carvainis of Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc. Linda lives north of Detroit, MI with her husband; they have three grown children and a granddaughter. I recently interviewed her about her new book of poetry, Security.
Mail from Paul Di Filippo!
Sun, 2010-06-27 10:44 | by alisonLaura Navarre's debut novel Devil's Mistress Published Today
Tue, 2010-06-01 11:33 | by alisonLaura Navarre's first novel, The Devil's Mistress, is published today. Read more »
THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY by Paul Di Filippo A discussion by Alison McMahan
Thu, 2010-05-27 11:28 | by alisonBasking in the aura (the unreproducible essence) of the original art work, is important because Di Filippo is a steampunk man, even when he’s writing erotic sci-fi like A Mouthful of Tongues.
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Laura Navarre Guest Blog on Dark Heroes
Sun, 2010-05-09 15:05 | by alisonMy Guilty Pleasures: Romance Writing and Daniel Craig
James Bond as a Dark Romantic Hero
What Makes Steampunk steampunk?
Sun, 2010-03-21 19:24 | by alisonDirigibles, brass goggles, automata, submarines, and other steampun genre tropes
Read more »Dark Shadows and Wolfman, Jonathan Frid and Benicio del Toro
Thu, 2010-02-18 07:01 | by alisonLove and the Tragic Monster Read more »
How to Edit Your Fiction
Thu, 2010-01-28 07:12 | by alisonWhen I was a child my entrepreneur father moved us around a lot. Mostly we ended up in places where everyone spoke Spanish, from Mexico to Spain. Read more »
Steampunk World Building
Sat, 2010-01-23 20:50 | by alisonIs The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Steampunk? What about Book of Eli? Read more »
Guest Blog on Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes, the movie
Thu, 2010-01-21 22:43 | by alisonSee my guest blog on Steampunk and the recent movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, on Alicia Rasley's excellent blog on everything a writer needs to know.
Alice Guy Blaché Film Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Thu, 2010-01-14 09:34 | by alisonThe Whitney Museum of Art in New York is screening almost all of the films of the first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy Blaché. The show runs until the end of January. Six of the nearly ninety films to be screened have been newly preserved. Read more »
Steampunk Media List
Wed, 2010-01-13 17:22 | by alisonI've been working on a steampunk western romance tentatively entitled The Separation of the Senses. Although I've been a fan of steampunk since I first started reading Jules Verne in the 1960s, once I actually started writing my own work I wanted to immerse myself in steampunk worlds completely. The best way to do that, of course, is to watch movies. But figuring out which movies to watch was not so easy, as there is wide disagreement on what exactly constitutes Steampunk. For what is is worth, here is my list. Agreements, disagreements, additions and evidence to support arguments for subtractions are all welcome. Read more »
Literary Romance
Tue, 2010-01-05 09:03 | by alisonThe first time I learned about Romance (as in literary Romances, not as in romance novels) I was a playwriting student (the first student to major in playwriting there, in fact) at Catholic University.
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Sam Waterston narrates Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs
Sun, 2008-09-14 14:32 | by alisonSam Waterston has recorded the narration for Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs and we are now in the final phases of post-production.
Non Violence International Film Festival
Sun, 2008-09-14 14:29 | by alisonAlison McMahan is a judge at the Non Violence International Film Festival - www.nviff.com - and is taking a sidebar of films by Cinewomen NY members. Read more about CineWomenNY.
Alice Guy Blaché
Sun, 2008-09-14 14:25 | by alisonAlison McMahan will give a lecture on the films of Alice Guy Blaché at the Festival du Films des Femmes in Brussels on September 22nd.
Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs at Málaga Cinema: Global Film Festival
Mon, 2008-01-21 14:20 | by alisonAlison McMahan’s documentary film, Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs, will screen at the
Málaga Cinema: Global Film Festival
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