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Hear Sue Lange on blogtalk radio: Book Talk with Yolanda Renee
This was broadcast on June 26th and will be available for your listening pleasure indefinitely. Feel free to comment at Yolanda Renee's page.
Saucon Valley Farmer's
Market Reading
On July 6, Hellertown, PA will be hosting a Power of the Pen day at their farmer's market (http://www.svfarmersmarket.org/). We're not sure what all will be going on, but Lange'll be there, hawking books. She'll be bringing some blueberries to sell so she can actually make some money.
bookviewcafe.com
Taking advantage of the new Internet marketing model, Sue Lange is joining a collective of writers that includes Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, and 22 other award winning authors. The website, bookviewcafe.com, is scheduled to launch at the end of August. Lange will be offering up her as yet unpublished book, The Textile Planet, for free (one section at a time just to annoy the surfing public). She's currently in the process of reworking the text to add anecdotes that are not part of the story. It'll be an added interest if you want to know what went on behind closed doors.
For instance, the story line might be:
"Marla Gershe, after a demoralizing waste of time conversation with her boss, Dread Torpid, decided to cut half the show just to spite him. Mr. Torpid was not amused." With just a click the side content can be easily accessed at any point you feel your eyes glazing over. It will take you to the demoralizing waste of time conversation which will hopefully be cleverly entertaining in its own right. If you find it to be not entertaining, that might be because it is its own demoralizing waste of time, which is why it was probably cut in the first place. But then there might be a snappy put down or maybe a new cuss phrase or something in there to make it worth your while. A memorable line that should never have wound up on the cutting room floor.
Berks Lit Fest Oct. 18
The third annual Reading Reads festival (http://www.readingreads.com/) held throughout Berks County, PA will be happening during the entire month of October 2008. Lange will be reading with some other local authors at Borders in Wyomissing on Saturday, Oct. 18. No idea what time at this point. If her past experience with events that have multiple acts performing on the same date is any indication, she'll probably get the 2 in the morning slot.
*Usually every other month, but that's not written in stone, obviously as we're working with the ether here.
Also available from Sue Lange
We Robots
First paragraph:
I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Mode that is. Comfortable mode. I'm talking about communications systems. Group-speak, science-speek, GeekSpeak, King's English. They're all great protocols if you're into that puffery, but for real efficiency, slang is where it's at. We robots choose to use slang four out of five times. It's faster. So pardon my hipness.
--Avey, the Robot in WE, ROBOTS by Sue Lange
