Jessica Rydill - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a fantasy writer, smoke, drink coffee, live in the West Country with my Pod (Stephen) and my collection of weird ball-jointed dolls!
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My Interests

asian ball-jointed dolls, ball jointed dolls, dolls, fantasy, hypermaniac, photography, richard iii, sasha dolls, sasha morgenthaler, shakespeare, slash fiction, super dollfie, super dollfies, the new weird, u-noa, u-noa quluts, u-noss, unoa, unoss, volks, womad, writing.

I'd like to meet:

writers and other creative dudes, doll collectors

Music:

womad, world music, Yann Tiersen, Soundtracks, Danny Elfman, Early Music, fusion, Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Schubert, klezmer, Scissor Sisters, Bernard Herman, Irving Berlin, Tarkan, O Brother where Art thou, Bluegrass, folk, Bill Jones, Martin Carthy, Trad Jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Biederbeck, Charlie Gillett, Roots

Movies:

guillermo del toro, jan svankmajer, kurosawa, anime, Brothers Quay, animation, Belleville Rendez-vous, O Brother where art Thou, World Cinema, Emir Kusturica, Time of the Gypsies, Powell and Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death, Delicatessen, Coen Brothers, American Beauty, Kevin Spacey, Monty Python, Life of Brian, Time Bandits, Brazil, Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Night of the Hunter

Television:

Dr Who, Torchwood, Taken

Books:

phillip pullman, terry pratchett, tolkien, ursula le guin

Heroes:

David Gemmell, Sarah Ash, David Aaronovitch, Terry Pratchett, James Marsters

My Blog

pirates of the carob bean?

Ok. It's the New Year.Usual situation; I am way behind on MySpace and LJ.I am feeling depressed, for the most mundane of reasons. But the good news is that Yuda, who was on his way from Italy and disa...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:56:00 PST

Boldly, she went forth. Or fifth.

Ok, I lied. This isn't really about writing and poetry.Well, maybe in a way...I keep seeing stuff where an editor read somebody's MySpace blog and lo...they offered them a contract! I keep hoping this...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:49:00 PST

Map of Frantsiyar

This is the first draft of the map of Frantsiyar, from Malarat
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:05:00 PST

technorati profile

Technorati Profile
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:49:00 PST

update to my web-site

I have updated my site, shamansland, getting rid of the extraneous index page There are new photos on the "photo gallery" page, and I have added a new extract from my WIP, Malarat - the Prologue....
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:37:00 PST

Malarat Chapter I - an extract

The music began indoors. Sklav music! Genie pouted, swinging round to face the yellow glow from the doors. Wild, cacophonous, with its eccentric rhythms, it stirred unease in her. Annat would play the...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:17:00 PST

Malarat - progress report

I have just started Chapter 10. At this point, the narrative begins to divide into several points of view. Nine characters go off on a journey, which isn't a quest - three of them are in flight from t...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:56:00 PST

dollz

Posted by Jessica Rydill on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:35:00 PST

about my German cover

I downloaded a client that was supposed to cross-post to this journal and my LJ - but it didn't post here! Stephen says some of this free software is really shakey. I feel quite bad that I've been hog...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:37:00 PST

not the hottest day

I'm pretty shattered now. It has been incredibly hot today and I haven't done any work. This lunchtime, we went over to see Elsa at Red Gables in Trowbridge and then had lunch with Stephen's Mum and D...
Posted by Jessica Rydill on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:41:00 PST