Reading & Writing
What am I doing in offline life? Take a look at what I’ve been reading, the projects I have on the go, and mark down when I’ll next be performing with one of the groups with which I play!
Last Updated: 7 September 2010
- READING:
Reading Now:
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (reread)
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi
Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch by David W. Kriebel
Recently Read:
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (reread)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (reread)
Star Wars: Survivor’s Quest by Timothy Zahn
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (reread)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Gwenhwyfar by Mercedes Lackey
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- WRITING:
Contracted:
In between projects
Uncontracted:
Harpsichord Dreams: essay collection (begun October 2008) [hibernating]
Still Life With Cello: essay collection split off from Harpsichord Dreams (begun November 2008) [hibernating]
Orchestrated: YA novel (begun May 2008, second draft finished August 2009, third rewrite in progress 2010)
Wings & Ashes: novelette in first draft (begun August 2007)
Swan Sister: adult novel, first draft (50% complete) (begun January 2006)
The Moments of Being Pandora: YA urban fantasy novel, first rewrite, final four chapters in draft (begun November 2004)
Creating the Muse (also referred to as ‘The Poppy Book’, or tongue-in-cheek as The Great Canadian Novel or GCN): adult novel, in rewrites (and the last four chapters may as well be a first draft, as the end has to be so drastically changed) (begun July 2002) [hibernating]
Il Maestro e le Figlie di Coro: YA historical novel, first rewrite (begun November 2006)
Many Names: complete YA novel, submitted without representation December 2007 (rejected; currently seeking representation) (written November 2002 - late 2003)
Balsamic Moon: adult novel, on hold; complete with final chapter summarized in two pages (written November 2003)
- REHEARSING:
Lakeshore Chamber Orchestra:
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2010-11 season TBA
Lesson Work:
Position Pieces for Cello vol. 1 & 2 by Rick Mooney
Thumbs Position vol. 1 by Rick Mooney
Suzuki book 3
- PERFORMING:
Lakeshore Chamber Orchestra:
2010-11 season TBA
