John Coleman McNichol, author of the Young Chesterton Chronicles wants to know what project you're working on now!
Are you writing music? A screenplay? Illustrating something...or even doodling in the margins of your extra Excel documents? Let us know!
Leave a comment below. We can't wait to hear from you. And remember: sometimes the better part of humility is bragging.
Don't forget to leave your name, and maybe even a website where we can learn more about the exciting work you're doing!
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I'll put my tuppence in here! This summer is all about Midsummer's for my young adult theatre school, Gaudete Academy, this year. You can see rehearsal photos here.
And a few weeks ago, I closed out another production of my play, The French Butler (available from Playscripts here: )...with more photos from that production here!
Sure! Right now:
ReplyDelete-Where the Red Sands Fly, the sequel to the above book, The Emperor of North America, and the 3rd in the Young Chesterton Chronicles series.
Young Gilbert Chesterton goes to Mars to confront his enemies and save his long-lost siblings, aided by his girlfriend, Frances, and an able and stalwart young army officer named Hilaire Belloc...
Also: Footprints & Breadcrumbs, a book looking at how the parts of the Mass are based not only on Biblical events, but aspects of our own human experiences.
Oh, yeah, and a Catholic urban fantasy...turning out to be fun...
Hi John...wow! You're keeping busy! Love it!
DeleteAll right, I'll play:
ReplyDeleteCo-writing a psychological thriller about the effects of guilt on personal identity, as played out in the lives of a pair of identity thieves on the run.
Revising a World War II screenplay about a British Intelligence officer investigating a link between the Abwehr and the IRA in Dublin.
Drafting a screenplay about an amateur Gilbert & Sullivan troupe who find their personal lives intersecting with their production of The Yeomen of the Guard.
You know, Sharon, that G&S screenplay could also be translated into a really great stage play...just saying!
DeleteAh, you have uncovered my Secret Master Plan. I was going to ask you to read it (when it exists in actuality, not just potency) and give me the benefit of your directing experience for the re-write. You would then, naturally, become so engrossed in the piece that you would decide you had to direct it yourself.
DeleteClearly, I need to work on the Secrecy of my Secret Master Plans.
My second novel, Frozen Footprints (a Catholic suspense thriller for readers 16 and up) was recently accepted for publication by Tumblar House, so I'm very happily busy with details like reading the first type-set PDF, writing the Acknowledgements, thinking about cover ideas, etc.
ReplyDeleteI just officially launched Frozen-Footprints.com today!
Here's a brief synopsis of the novel:
Eighteen-year-old Charlene’s world is shattered when her twin brother disappears and a ransom note shows up. Fearing the worst, she determines to find her brother before it’s too late. Her quest hurls her into a twisted, frigid world of snow and ice that leads to terror in an isolated cabin.
Therese, what a wonderful feeling! I love it! Congrats on the book, the website, the contact and everything! And keep us informed when the book is out. Perhaps you can do a guest post for us.
DeleteIn other news, I'd love to encourage you to join us on our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/catholicartists/
Thank you, Emily, I will keep you informed. Wonderful site here! I also joined the Facebook group.
DeleteWorking on the transcription of one of my WWII interviews in German, preparing a digital photo album for my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary, and doing some sewing special projects.
ReplyDeleteApart from that I am writing the review of Wherever Lily Goes penned by Sherry Boas and redesigning my site, Time with Tannia, with the hope of relaunch it later this Summer.
Boring is an unknown word for me!
Website: http://timewithtannia.tripod.com/
Stock Photography Portfolio: http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search/photographer/Boricua63/
Other photography related gifts: http://www.zazzle.com/teolpuertorico
Wow! I love your varying pursuits! Am I to understand, then, that you not only do translations but book reviews? Are you actively looking for folks to send you their books...and either way, do keep us informed of when your redesigned site gets launched and your review comes out!
DeleteAnd make sure you join us on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/catholicartists/
There are many artists who'd love to chat with you, I imagine!
I am one of those who is never happy without five or six irons in the fire, and if those irons vary in kind, so much the better! Thus:
ReplyDeleteIn my little world of yarn, I am in the process of a few different projects:
-I am finishing a knit blanket for one of my brothers. It's technically what is called a "stash buster" (getting rid of partial or whole skeins of yarn just taking up space), but my brother really does need a new blanket.
-I have recently finished a crocheted shrug in a lovely cobalt blue.
-I'll be starting a design-as-I-go knit skirt in some colors that will be rather an experiment for me, and it will be the latest addition to my collection of four other made-by-me skirts.
-I have a pattern for a summer top that I am going to transform into a white shrug with fluttering sleeves. The pattern is technically simple. Whether or not execution is as simple as I hope remains to be seen.
In my writing projects, I've determined that there are stories I really would like to have published some day: one about a werewolf girl who can't transform, one about a boy who can't endure sunlight in an agrarian culture, and one about a delivery company that deals in normal and abnormal deliveries to *ahem* interesting customers. Then there are stories I write because I know the characters well and want to play with them in my sandbox. Those will probably never see a publisher's slush pile.
So yes, I have many and many a project to pursue!
Co-writing a psychological thriller about the effects of guilt on personal identity, as played out in the lives of a pair of identity thieves on the run. ...with Sharon...
ReplyDeleteEditing a short comedy I shot last weekend.
Trying to adapt Flannery O'Conner's 'The Violent Bear it Away' for the screen.
Hello! I just fired up my new blog where I'll be writing about being Catholic and an artist, and will be posting works in progress and items to the gallery.
ReplyDeleteThe focus is on finding a new visual language for sacred art. We have the iconic, medieval, and baroque for valid traditions. But what does a post-post-modern Catholic sacred visual language look like that doesn't rupture with the past but maintains some kind of continuity with it? We need to figure that out!
The most recent post touches on the meditation on freedom I listened to at the Catholic Arts Society website, which you also posted on:
http://catholicartistscause.blogspot.com/2012/07/catholic-artists-society-meditation-on.html
Here is my reflection on it too, with some thought given to why things are they way are:
http://douglasbonneville.com/is-bad-catholic-art-related-to-a-lapse-in-ethics/
I just added this site to my blogroll! Keep it up!
Just stumbled accross this blog in a google search...
ReplyDeleteFor the last few years I've been mixing sound for various film/video projects, none of which so far have been specifically Catholic... However that is my motivation and how I intend to employ my talents, I just need the projects and people to do it with.
Anyone out there looking for a Catholic sound mixer?
Rich