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Re: litpark » Question of the Month: Complete

lance reynald — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:04:18 -0000

proudest... actually, I'd say the interviews I conducted here. They're the best example of my mind at work and they helped give me the the courage and skill to work through my own writing.

great cover and title on UP from the BLUE!

can't wait to have a copy in my hands!

Re: evelyn evelyn drama drama

lance reynald — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:18:13 -0000

just took a moment to catch up on "the controversy"

...good grief!

art is art, it just is... like air and gravity and whatnot.

the artist doesn't control reactions or resonance (if only we could...we might be a smidge happier)

I like your art.

you make me smile.

even in controversy you inspire me a bit.

you remind me that I'm not alone in the world...different is ok.

to heck with 'em... you're doing fine.

I'm still listening.

all my best- xo. Lance Reynald

Re: LitPark Question of the Month: 2010

lance reynald — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:59:56 -0000

the next one... though I often find myself lost with it.

make this one stronger, better than the debut.

stop letting the weakness of the first one bother me so much (it does, often to the point of paralysis)

a writing retreat or two, three, four... whoever will have me.

an agent, a great one that will steer me well and do their damndest to make it easier for me to think only of the work and not the rest of it.

Re: Lance Reynald, author of POP SALVATION

lance reynald — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:05:42 -0000

red haired Robin?

curiously, that sounds a bit familiar.

hmm...

the one I knew here and there was a bit of a fixture at Tracks... (a very popular venue for a great many LitPark folks)... But I'm so very dreadful at remembering names.

though a small scene DC has produced a great many stellar talents from our era.

a few of us just lurked in the shadows of Tracks, Mirage, Nation, Red, Dakotas, Fifth Column and such for a bit.

Hmm... Robin?

Re: Lance Reynald, author of POP SALVATION

lance reynald — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:08:04 -0000

maybe she just isn't there to begin with...?

just saying... anything is possible with suspended reality in words.

Re: Lance Reynald, author of POP SALVATION

lance reynald — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:26:17 -0000

um...would you guys hate me too much if I told you almost every picture of me is some form of self portrait or another.

I'm handy with a remote trigger.

Re: Question of the Month: Hero

lance reynald — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:46:24 -0000

Duchamp...genius pick.

Re: Question of the Month: Hero

lance reynald — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:45:34 -0000

that is just lovely.

thank you.

xo.

Re: Question of the Month: Hero

lance reynald — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:30:37 -0000

heroism can also be finding the ability to just "do", even if the whole world thinks you can't.

Re: Question of the Month: Hero

lance reynald — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:05:38 -0000

ditto.

Re: Question of the Month: You on the Web

lance reynald — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:07:32 -0000

hi everybody,

the links list, eh?

the blog: http://lancereynald.blogspo...
the website: http://lancereynald.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/LanceRey
oh yeah, there is this… http://harpercollins.com/bo...

wondertwin- Have a great time on the island!! beats the hell outta Kansas!
xo. LR

Re: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

lance reynald — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:35:56 -0000

brilliant book.

Re: Ann Kingman, Bookseller

lance reynald — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:16:30 -0000

where's my kudos button?

thank you for reminding us of the importance of community in making it through a period of economic uncertainty.

awesome interview!

and, thanks to Ann for just being Ann.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

lance reynald — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:30:28 -0000

well, as far as I can figure...
another big buzzword out here is "sustainability".
I guess it just all links up in consciousness. the sensibility being a tilt towards community growth and a grassroots support of the arts. good places to see that in action are organizations like Community of Writers, Pear, Write Around Portland, the IPRC and the work Chloe Eudaly does through Reading Frenzy. (please don't make me chase down the links... they're all just a google search away)

and not to get political about it (as I tend towards extreme left thoughts myself) but I recall hearing Colin Powell give a talk some years ago (pre-W) about being able to make greater impact at the local community level... I think most Portlanders take that seriously. It's not a perfect science, but it makes it a nice place to live.

Re: Question of the Month: Amazon, B&N or Indie?

lance reynald — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:32:10 -0000

sorry I'm so late dropping in for this thread.

I live in Portland so Powell's always my first stop. I love shopping the indies for contemporary literary fiction, artbooks, great magazine selection and contemporary design type things. Powell's is bookstore heaven... and though Tattered Cover in LoDo was once my fave... Powell's is now it.

but... if I'm looking for a classic at a dirt cheap price... I will hit B&N.

and... I know as a writer this might sound horrible to confess... if it is they type of thing that certainly is going to get an absurd sales volume (cookbooks, how to guides and stuff like that...) I kinda flatly refuse to pay full price... but... I don't think Jamie Oliver and Giada De Laurentis are too put out by my bargain shopping for their titles.

but, I do prefer the indies... mostly for the above and beyond average selection and the simple fact that the employees and owners usually actually love books and writers. The few times I've been in Border's or B&N I've found the staff just didn't really seem to care about much more than the cold facts of inventory... and if I had any off the mass market request it really seemed as though I was a pest.

I enjoy the places that enjoy words. Powell's, Tattered Cover, Kramer Books, Politics and Prose and the Stand have never let me down.

Re: Largehearted Boy: Contest: Olive Reader Pocket Books, Win Three Modern Classic Novels

lance reynald — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:22:29 -0000

Howl... always in backpack, and fits pockets.

I'd love to carry anything by michael cunningham in a pocketsize.
or Didion.

or a pocketsized written on the body.

those would be my first picks... I need more pockets.

Re: Question of the Month: Endurance

lance reynald — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:48:08 -0000

wow. I'm always caught off guard by the notion that people read my stuff... *blush*
and yes, Khakpour was great! the other one loaded with such gems was Olympia Vernon. at times where I crash into the hardest of walls I go look at some of the things other writers have told me... neat stuff.

Re: Question of the Month: Endurance

lance reynald — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:44:23 -0000

hmm.
endurance, eh?
I don't know if it is a thing other writers suffer or not, I know you and I have talked about/around it before... but, I expect and demand more of myself than any industry possibly could. I think that is how I subconsciously strike some kind of balance. Nothing in the world is more certain to me than this terror of disappointing others, thus failing myself. I think that twist in my own drive makes the rest of it seem like a cakewalk.
best advice I've ever gotten about why any of us stick it out is the old cliched view that if you are a writer, it is what you are, you have no choice.... and whenever that doesn't push me to my absolute limits Bukowski helps... http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Question of the Month: Foolish

lance reynald — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:48:16 -0000

can you guys on the East coast hurry up and close your polls so we can call this thing and forget the past 8 years.

Re: Question of the Month: Foolish

lance reynald — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:11:25 -0000

sadly, I believe Tracks is now Condos.

I'll be back a bit later to get into the foolishness...

have some PS section stuff to pull together for PS.....eeeeeeeek!

and, though I stay far away from any public discourse on our beloved Beltway backgrounds I guess anyone could read between the lines over at Myspace. (methinks this link is gonna be ridiculously long and ugly, I'm a bit out of practice on the cyber-saavy)
http://blog.myspace.com/ind...
ok...
off to rewrite my bio and all things Pop!
xo.

Re: Dan Conaway, Literary Agent (part 1)

lance reynald — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:24:32 -0000

in all fairness, I queried 3 agents. not a single one took a bit of time to get back to me on Pop Salvation. and Harper brought a lovely offer to the table without an agent.

Time and time again I try to get the finding an agent thing rolling and get a litany of excuses as to why it isn't happening for me...

in the meantime, I've worked hard to broker myself... have come across some rather beautiful blurbings, have an editor I love working with and have graciously accepted that in the world of literary agents I might as well annotate my business cards with the word "pariah".

great interview. interesting insights.

but, Dan is clearly the exception in the field.

I've not found the world of agents the least bit interested in a single word I might have to say.

Re: (Extra) Question of the Month: Halloween

lance reynald — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:20:31 -0000

I've been just about everything from Rocky Horror...Bladerunner... and a few things you'd never actually believe possible. (you woulda never guessed, huh?)

but, one of my worst was a yellow tabby very much out of...CATS...
you have no idea how long it takes to get yellow bodypaint off every last corner of skin.

never again.

Re: NaNoWriMo ‘08

lance reynald — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:37:49 -0000

don't ask.
just do.

Re: Where Are They Now?

lance reynald — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:59:47 -0000

did we both just really edit for a year?

sheeesh.

well, that part being done I'm beginning work on the next one and trying to shape up another project that is all hush hush... hopefully I get to share something about that soon.

and I'm certain all of you will want to rush right over to amazon as soon as I have a pre-sales link for Pop Salvation, right??

xoxo.

Re: Question of the Month: Memorable Trips

lance reynald — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:20:08 -0000

lol.

great question. tales of vagabondage always seem great to me...
there was paris, madrid, toronto, alcala, taos...

but, nothing really matches the long strange trip I seem to have been on these past 8 months... I don't know fully where it's all going...but, I'm certainly changed.

xo.