Author Ada Palmer joins SciFiChick.com today to talk about the world from her latest release Too Like The Lightning! Too Like the Lightning: A World of Diaspora The flying cars on the cover of my science fiction novel <em are more than just a promise that this will be a classic, energetic science fiction setting, … Read more
Chris Howard joins SciFiChick.com today to talk about what super power he would chose to have and what he would do with it…
Pick your own super-power!?
If I could have any super-power at all?! Whoa. For a long time, I’d have said “flying”. Kinda obvious… but, come on, flying! How awesome?! But we all kinda know how that would work. So I’m gonna mix it up and say the super-power I pick is… the “ability to freeze time”. Right?!
I’d love this. Heck, I’d never run late again! Well, I would run late, because I always seem to push it so I can get more things done before I set off wherever it is I’m trying to go, but now I’d just freeze time, and go zipping through the static world (on my bike, I guess, or I could just walk because there’d be no hurry). That’s the beauty of this super-power… there’d never be any hurry. At all.
Lori Goldstein joins SciFiChick.com today to share her High School Horror Story on this stop of Chandler Baker’s blog tour!
Lori Goldstein’s High School Horror Story
Here’s the thing about horror stories. Sometimes, it’s all about perspective.
What seems like a huge deal at the time might not be all that horrific in hindsight and vice versa, something that is entirely de rigueur might come back to bite you in your older keister.
My older keister has a big chunk missing. Because of this.
Permed, teased, curling ironed, I owe my high school horror story to a monster can of Aqua Net.
But it’s not really my fault. See, I grew up in New Jersey. And if you don’t know anything about New Jersey, think Jon Bon Jovi pre haircut.
I’m not looking so bad now, right?
Living in the shadow of New York City, we Jersey girls had to find ways to stand out. Or in this case, up. Way, way up.
Flipping through my high school albums proves it wasn’t just me. We were all doing it. That doesn’t make me want to whisper, “the horror, the horror” any less.
Though there was one benefit. For once in my life, I easily clocked in at five feet without heels.
Bio: Born into an Italian-Irish family (hence the short temper and the freckles), Lori Goldstein grew up in a small town on the Jersey shore and now makes her home outside of Boston in a place close enough to the ocean that on the right day, she can smell the sea from her back deck, and yet it still takes an hour to get to the beach. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and worked as a writer, editor, and graphic designer before embracing her love of fictional people. Lori is the author of the young adult contemporary fantasy series Becoming Jinn (Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan, out now; Circle of Jinn, May 17, 2016). When not writing or reading (preferably from a sandy local), Lori can be found chatting books and perfecting the art of efficient writing through Twitter (@loriagoldstein). You can visit her online at www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com, Tumblr and Instagram: lorigoldsteinbooks.com, Facebook: www.facebook.com/LoriGoldsteinAuthor, and Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/LoriGoldstein
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