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the fusty blob skip to main skip to sidebar the fusty blob saturday september 5 2009 bon voyage fusty fusty is moving exciting no you will find me at shy oyster http shyoyster blogspot com come visit i ve only just moved in you know how that goes boxes everywhere furniture crowded together in odd places paintings leaning against the walls nothing in the refrigerator so please excuse the mess and come on over i ll still be just me but you can t have everything right posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 8 02 am 2 comments thursday june 18 2009 squish under the foot of the giant i can add nothing intelligent to the google takeover of the literary universe so there is no need for you dear reader to wait for my keen insight there isn t one mostly i just want to squeeze my eyes tightly shut and wish the conundrum away but that s not possible and it s not a question of that awful google which is also hosting this blog though i do worry a bit about any company worth billions that innocently states don t be evil sure that and five dollars will buy you a great piece of real estate in florida no if it wasn t google it would be some other giant word sucking digital vacuum cleaning up after authors and to quote the character played by mel gibson in signs one of my favorite movies of all time though perhaps not for the reasons one might think it might be good might be bad yup the space aliens have landed and writers are doomed or maybe not this is where i am not intelligent i have no idea whether the google settlement should it be approved will ultimately be good for writers or not i get a headache just thinking about it but google has put writers in the interesting position of having to re claim their own work to wave their collective hand in the air and say yes the work you have just stolen is mine and thank you so much for screwing me over and giving me a few dollars for my efforts we re just so darned grateful what s not to love you dear reader have probably detected a tone of cynicism in my words yes it is there but still i am open to the vacuum suck that is going on because the powers of the universe i e google and lovers of all things digital or loatds as opposed to those who consider consequences before they hit accept have agreed that what s mine is theirs and proceeded as such and as an author whatcha gonna do i don t think ghost busters can help but it would have been nice of the google to ask first really the glorious future that you dear google have envisioned might indeed come to pass and i might end up a happy participant but you didn t play nice and you took stuff that wasn t yours miss manners would be horrified posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 1 53 pm 1 comment labels evil google settlement squished thursday june 4 2009 better i am taking a break from my project today which is cleaning my office writing room rather i m giving myself permission to take a break having realized that i won t finish this very major operation by dinner by sunset by bedtime or even by daybreak tomorrow i hate leaving a mess but then my office was a mess to begin with so really what s the difference dust and clutter are my long time companions in fact they never seem to want to go home oh right this is their home eventually my office will look better but apparently not today which makes me think about better the person and writer that i am is plagued with the notion that i must do better clean better work better write better tech better blog better be better there is a deep panic over the feared truth that i am not better at any of these things and will never be i e i am therefore by default a failure old bit of mental garbage there still it s a live electric wire in my mind here at fusty though i will just refer to the part about write better as goodness knows no one else would be interested in the other ways in which i stumble around in a state of unbetter i know i am not alone in facing the better conundrum many writers though not of course all are plagued with uncertainty with the belief that if only they were better writers all would be well which could possibly be true it doesn t hurt to have some spit and shine to your words but there is a wider aspect a deeply held belief that we the other writers who share this concern do not and will never add up will never be special in a writing kind of way one issue is that some writers are simply better writers than we are a painful but true fact there is always someone out there whose words sparkle in a way yours don t insert expletive here by way of encouragement i feel this true for everyone even the successful another issue is the fact that the competition for getting published for being recognized in any way for winning awards for being paid money for your work for even being read at all is so absolutely ferocious armies have nothing over writers when it comes to clashes in the night by which i don t mean we aren t a friendly bunch at least on the surface as for the most part we are but rather we the uncertains know deep in our hearts that you either make it or you don t and your success has little to do with good writing though good writing doesn t hurt though you can also be a good writer and still get nowhere not to say that those who do get somewhere aren t good or excellent writers as many of them are is this confusing enough for you in a winner takes all publishing world if you are not a winner what are you something nothing anything at all this is not to get into a big boo hoo over the hard life of being a wordsmith but rather to wonder how to survive such a harsh landscape i haven t quite figured it out myself though i have been trying for several years now i do most of the time walk on firmer emotional ground than i used to which is good as being a writer can include a lot of weeping and wailing time at least for the uncertains maybe the better i need to concentrate on is just being better at not being so freaked out and discouraged all the time that feels like a paltry goal though compared to fame and riches maybe i need to just concentrate on being better at cleaning my office meh posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 1 18 pm 4 comments thursday may 28 2009 sparkle sparkle someone recently suggested i think about what might have happened to my books if they had been written by a current famous award winning young adult novelist at first i just chuckled then thought hmm so i pulled on this famous author s sparkly celebrity jacket nice buttons shiny pockets tassels and had some fun first of course my books soared in both popularity and critical acclaim amazon practically toppled over from the sudden weight of my fameiness and the fans i could barely keep up with my e mail librarians drooled over me so much i feared for my sparkly jacket and boy o boy the invitations i received invites to speak at ala bea alan mla and nsa plus i received every state award in the u s of a and need i say the word printz australia anointed me with a specially created magnificent american author award and world wide teens in every country begged for me to grace their myspace and facebook pages if not their shores so i did all that by the time i got home though exhausted in need of a nap and hung my sparkly jacket in the closet i knew it was time to eat a big slice of reality pie never my favorite i prefer apple if this said famous author had written my books instead of the ones said famous author actually wrote well maybe said famous author would not have ended up so famous or if i had written said famous author s books instead of my own they might have ended up awardless and without acclaim tossed unloved onto the remainder heap of that long good night face it the personality of the author has a lot to do with his or her success in the world excuse me a moment while i shed a tear over my own personality or as some might put it the lack thereof so when i finished my pie i knew i had to return the sparkly celebrity jacket to its rightful owner drat plus i had to send it to the cleaners first sparkles cost buckets of to clean and lets not talk about tassels still i have no regrets i will always cherish the memory of my books laughing in the sun basking in the warmth of the world s embrace blushing at being hailed as masterful achievements giggling with delighted embarrassment when their naked covers turned up on you tube a girl s gotta dream posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 6 17 am 4 comments labels award winning authors fame nsa wednesday april 22 2009 uppity downity i m flapping and flopping around in a big puddle of anxiety i hate it when that happens as it s terribly uncomfortable i m just anxious about flap flap flop pretty much everything at the moment but i will try to focus on one specific nothing new of course just my currently dim author aura low wattage that one i am not commercial enough either in my work or in my aspect to attract attention so dim dim dim it goes but i don t want to dwell on it or get the self sorries mostly i just want to comment on one of the things about being an artist that is true you go up and you go down i think here i m feeling superior to those who are successful that if you are lucky you experience the downward turn at a lower level of popularity because if you are very popular and then you go down well that s crushing but if you are not so high up and go down okay it s crushing but at least you haven t yet begun to feel you re too big to fail sorry couldn t help it of course if you go up in popularity and stay there and never come down well this post ain t for you so scram anyway i am grateful that i can see the arc of my work and that after the depression of failure and loss comes acceptance and i am hopeful i will rise again which saying in and of itself makes me sound important so there posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 3 09 pm 2 comments sunday april 12 2009 peas porridge hot i am passing time before i commence making a very simple food dish to bring to an easter dinner gathering concerning cooking and cleaning i have pretty much given up on my ever being anything but a household clod and have come to feel more acceptance of my actual domestic nature on the writing front i am making slow progress on my current work in progress approaching the end but i won t get there for a while i wish i were a speed writer but i m not in fact the only thing i approach with any speed at all is a piece of chocolate so today easter is pretty much my day still with some authors whipping out books right and left as if they re on a speed date with fame it can be disconcerting i myself actually went through a relatively fast whipping out of books period a few years back but have since resorted to my usual lumbering pace i knew it was out there waiting for me coming to terms with one s imperfections is the work of the mature by which i mean old by which i mean probably older than you but maybe not when you are young you intrinsically understand that the perfections are coming they will be here next week or next year just hold on part of me is still holding but by the time you figure out that the word mature applies to you yes you well you have two choices despair over your generally rotted state or accept the imperfections much as you would accept a raggedy garden needs weeding and watering and fertilizing but by damn a few pink and yellow flowers are still blooming so maybe this is my easter sermon i didn t plan to have one i don t go to church precisely because of the word sermon though of course that is unkind to good sermonizers everywhere at any rate i wish a happy easter to all who are eastering and a happy just plain good day to those who are not i myself will sit quietly for a while and try to muster my cooking gene it s in there somewhere waiting to flex its tiny muscle posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 9 50 am 2 comments saturday march 28 2009 i m back said nora with a monumental crash that might not be the exact line but the image from noisy nora by rosemary wells i m thinking of the original illustrations where nora the little mouse jealous of her big sister and new baby brother hiding from her parents to make them worry and come looking for her triumphantly bursts out of her hiding place flinging open the closet door is priceless as they say so i m back or backish as i still feel a little uncertain i became fearful that my blog was beyond hopeless not hot enough or commercial enough i know what i m up against in the author blogosphere and face it i ain t there nonetheless having been given two recent nudges i ve traipsed my way back maybe i just got lonely for the sound of my own words personal blogs are very much a me me me situation well all i ve got to share is me so there you have it as for writerly news well um a manuscript is being shopped and another one is under construction but that s about it scary times in publishing as in everywhere else but i feel strangely okay not sure why but what else is there to do but get through it come out the other side in a time of buildings collapsing meteorites hitting dinosaurs prowling i exaggerate but it does feel that way in these weird times i have decided to perk up and claim my authorhood weird seems to suit me i m back said fusty with a monumental splat we ll see posted by kathleen jeffrie johnson at 7 32 am 4 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe on jacketflap about fusty kathleen jeffrie johnson i am the author of several young adult novels a fast and brutal wing the parallel universe of liars target dumb love and gone view my complete profile fusty news see you a short story by moi has been published in owning it stories about teens with disabilities from candlewick press 2008 this anthology is edited by donald r gallo also known as don gallo hi don and c j i have an essay philip pullman and the loss of joy in the world of the golden compass the otherworldly ride continues edited by scott westerfeld this anthology of essays on pullman and his dark materials is published by benbella books in partnership with borders inc there are lots of good essays to enjoy yay team the paperback of a fast and brutal wing is out from square fish fusty links michelle knudsen ckkellymartin com lunatic deborah brodie freelance editor book doctor teacher of creative writing live journal link susan writes cheryl rainfield a fine point fusty archive 2009 7 september 1 bon voyage fusty june 2 may 1 april 2 march 1 2008 27 december 2 november 3 october 2 september 3 july 3 june 1 may 3 april 3 march 2 february 3 january 2 2007 14 december 4 november 4 october 6