Lisa Rodgers

u/baxtersa has my new favorite way of pitching THE SIGN OF THE DRAGON: "what if 600 pages of movie Aragorn in verse?"

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I absolutely adore this book and we are all so excited to share it with other folks. I've been wanting to reread it since literally the day I finished it last year, and doing it in a group setting just sounds incredible. Hopefully we get some more readers addicted to your work too 😅💖

It's also u/sarahlynngrey and u/fuckit_sowhat . We love your book and are looking forward to the readalong!

There's an upcoming ReadAlong for "The Sign of the Dragon" on Reddit fantasy:
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As far as I can tell, it's organized by oboist73, to whom I'm greatly indebted for posting many many kind comments about "The Sign of the Dragon."

The first bit of the discussion is on 10/7

Friday September 12 Panel: Writing as Resistance, Ballroom E, 4pm-4:55pm ArmadilloCon Opening Ceremony, Ballroom D, 7pm-7:30pm Panel: Storycraft 101: Basic Storycrafting, Southpark A, 8pm-8:55pm

Saturday September 13 Panel: Burn It All Down: Female Rage in SFF, Ballroom E, 1pm-1:55pm Autographing: Mills, Tsai, Williams, Dealers Room, 2:30pm Interview with Guest of Honor Samantha Mills, Ballroom D, 4pm-4:55pm Panel: Tachyon Publications 30th Anniversary, Ballroom D, 7pm-7:55pm

Sunday September 14 Panel: Memory, Identity and Trauma in SFF, Ballroom F, 10am-10:55am Reading by Guest of Honor Samantha Mills, Sweetwaters, 11am-11:30am

I'm Guest of Honoring at ArmadilloCon this weekend. O: Come chat about memory, resistance (spoiler: writing is important but it also has to be more than writing), and female raaaaage
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Photo of Richard Magahiz (left) and Mary Soon Lee (right), both gray-haired poets with glasses.... Photo taken by Richard Magahiz.

I'm not at Worldcon, but I did get to have an in-person meet up with fellow poet Richard Magahiz here in Pittsburgh at the Phipps Conservatory. It was lovely chatting with him and he very kindly gave me a copy of his chapbook "The Reducing Flame."

Here's a photo he took....

Excited for WorldCon tomorrow – figured it was probably time to get back on the social.

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#TSOTD_note Nothing

- underwent half a dozen revisions

- including expanding the poem considerably following an excellent suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social

- the first draft had more emphasis on Hana's sister

- I think there's an echo of something I read by Mary Renault in the poem

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The Los Nefilim ebooks aren't currently available, because rights have reverted to me. I'm working with the amazing @lisarodgers.bsky.social to get them on the JABberwocky ebook site, and I'll keep you posted on progress. awfulagent.com/ebooks

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#TSOTD_note Fraught

- I love Gary McCluskey's art :-)

- Fergus, now Donal's chief of guards, was originally Connol's guard + friend. He's one of the background figures whose doings are mostly left to the reader's imagination.

- call back to earlier "A horse ride. Fresh air. Nothing better."

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#TSOTD_note Dark Arrow

- added late, based on a suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social, to clarify that Fian's suicide does indeed accomplish a dark purpose

- the initial supernatural evil in the book is the demon, whose power is claimed by Fian after the demon dies, and is now passed on again.

#TSOTD_note Diplomatic Communiqué

- as with the previous poem, this one was added based on a suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social to clarify that Fian committed suicide with an ulterior motive

- I love how Donal and Xau are now close enough friends that when Donal wants help, he asks Xau

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Omg I'm wigging ouuuuutttt, The Wings Upon Her Back is a World Fantasy finalist!! 😭

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#TSOTD_note Discretion

- one of the last poems I wrote

- added after @lisarodgers.bsky.social, my agent, suggested clarifying why Xau went to Ritany

- Lisa made a number of these excellent suggestions

- she's the best editor I've had for shaping a story, seeing what's missing or awry

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the World Fantasy Award

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Congrats to @samtasticbooks.com @rblemberg.bsky.social and our fearless leader Jacob Weisman on being nominated for the prestigious #WorldFantasyAward!

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Big congratulations to client Manish Melwani!!!
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For anyone losing track of who's who in "The Sign of the Dragon," I just added a list of prinicipal people and places to my website here:

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Many thanks to @lisarodgers.bsky.social‬ for formatting this!

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#TSOTD_note Schedule

- written near the end of the first-draft stage of "The Sign of the Dragon"

- later, after some very helpful feedback from @lisarodgers.bsky.social, I added the ten lines beginning "the brush trembled in Tsung's hand"

- I love Xau's guards. I think I've said that before :-)

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This review really gets @jmacfee.bsky.social's THE CONTEST. This line feels particularly on-point: "What I Loved: Clever, Quirky, and Just the Right Amount of Chaos." 😂 Also hard to hate the "Queens Gambit meets Knives Out" comparison! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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#TSOTD_note Dark Harvest

- a late addition to the book (thank you @lisarodgers.bsky.social !)

- reinforces that the demon's power passed to Fian

- first published in Mirror Dance

- my first jottings have the dragon also remembering an earlier demon (a millennium earlier, she is old).

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My first Huff novels way back when were the Quarters novels (and it should be said she has a lot of other arrows in her oeuvre, she's a multi-genre talent)

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