by Diana Renn | Feb 9, 2011 | author photos, headshots, photography
Much as I love photography, I’d rather be behind the lens than in front of it. I’ve endured way too many pictures of myself with half-closed eyes, bad lighting, or big, bad hair immortalized forever. I look drunk in photos before I’ve even...
by Diana Renn | Feb 4, 2011 | artists, creative process, inspiration, Japan, Viz Media
I love art. But I can barely etch a stick figure. I have to translate what I see into words. Sometimes the tension between my deep appreciation for visual art and my inability to produce it feels like a strange illness. So I compensate in other ways. I write about...
by Diana Renn | Feb 1, 2011 | book review, Randy Susan Meyers, The Murderer's Daughters, YA/adult crossover books
Have you heard of The Murderer’s Daughters, by Randy Susan Meyers? It’s coming out in paperback today, so I thought I’d devote some air time to it. Mainly since I have not stopped thinking about this novel since I read it, and I’ve read three...
by Diana Renn | Jan 28, 2011 | hobbies and the writing life, Japan, Odaiko New England, taiko
In a quiet, working-class town outside of Boston, behind a bowling alley and an electricians’ school, next to a Brazilian church, inside a nondescript building housing a Chinese cultural center, I’ve discovered a wonderful little slice of Japan. It’s...
by Diana Renn | Jan 24, 2011 | Across the Universe, ambitious characters, Beth Revis, Justina Chen, YA writing
Wanted: Teen characters with at least one goal or dream beyond high school, beyond Getting the Guy. Ideal candidates: strivers and do-ers. Young people with skills, talents, passions. Passive whiners and drifters need not apply.Yesterday I wrote this ad and taped it...
