Liz Czukas

YA Writer

  • 30th May
    2012
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sharkandfriends: We came up with this and wanted to share it with you all. True friends of sharks will know the secret hand-shark. Slap me some fin!

sharkandfriends:

We came up with this and wanted to share it with you all. True friends of sharks will know the secret hand-shark.

Slap me some fin!

  • 28th May
    2012
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  • 21st May
    2012
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lacigreen:

livesstillposed:

myvoluptuouswormstache:

I know I already reblogged a post about it, but I just want to make a more formal one, I guess. I just discovered Emotional Baggage Check, and I already love it! You can either “check in” your baggage by writing a post venting about whatever happens to be bothering you (it can be about anything) and submitting it, or you can “carry” someone else’s baggage by receiving a post of someone else’s problems, and sending them a song of your choice as well as a personal message. All you need is an e-mail to check in.

This is a lovely tool for getting things off your chest, and for reaching out to someone you might not have ever been able to help otherwise. Not to mention I’m a huge sucker for the power of music!

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER INVENTED. Turning problems into music.

i love it!

(via themonicabird)

  • 18th May
    2012
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fishingboatproceeds: prettybooks: Check out more infographics that compare 2011 YA book covers, from jacket colour to ethnicity of models over katehart.net. So fascinating. (Witness, for instance, the fact that almost 99% of models featured on the cover of YA novels are caucasian, for instance.) I suppose the cover of TFiOS features clouds, but only in a fairly abstract way. I really wanted the cover to move away from the conventional wisdom about what sells: white girls’ faces (or headless bodies), water, moons, spooky typeface, hands holding apples, etc. But I’m really fortunate to work with a publisher who A. cares what I think when it comes to book covers, and B. will take the time/spend the money to make sure that all parties are happy. Most authors don’t have much say in their covers (and, indeed, I didn’t always have much say in mine—there are some, in fact, that I actively dislike). In semi-related news, I am so, so, so excited to be able to reveal the new cover of Katherines in a couple weeks, which was designed by a nerdfighter. Kate Hart rocks my world.

fishingboatproceeds:

prettybooks:

Check out more infographics that compare 2011 YA book covers, from jacket colour to ethnicity of models over katehart.net.

So fascinating. (Witness, for instance, the fact that almost 99% of models featured on the cover of YA novels are caucasian, for instance.)

I suppose the cover of TFiOS features clouds, but only in a fairly abstract way. I really wanted the cover to move away from the conventional wisdom about what sells: white girls’ faces (or headless bodies), water, moons, spooky typeface, hands holding apples, etc.

But I’m really fortunate to work with a publisher who A. cares what I think when it comes to book covers, and B. will take the time/spend the money to make sure that all parties are happy. Most authors don’t have much say in their covers (and, indeed, I didn’t always have much say in mine—there are some, in fact, that I actively dislike).

In semi-related news, I am so, so, so excited to be able to reveal the new cover of Katherines in a couple weeks, which was designed by a nerdfighter.

Kate Hart rocks my world.

  • 18th May
    2012
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  • 17th May
    2012
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Thank you, John Green for reminding us that “traditional” so often means “Victorian” to Americans.

The fundamental question then, for me is this:

If marriage is a purely a legal status, requiring a legal document (i.e. marriage license), which confers upon those who obtain it certain legal rights and privileges (i.e. tax benefits, survivorship benefits, next-of-kin status, visitation rights, etc.), then what impact does any religion’s opinion of the status matter in a society with a Constitutional separation of church and state?  And further, what right does a government have to prevent any of its adult citizens from obtaining that status without entering into discrimination?

If, however, marriage is a purely religious status, or covenant via sacrament, why should that sacrament confer on its recipients legal rights and privileges of any kind?  Confirmation, for example, does not give someone the right to vote anymore than Bar Mitzvah is a pre-requisite for entering public high school.

Instead, I suspect it is a hybrid status, conferred by both the government and religions for different reasons.  In this case, the religious status is optional as far as obtaining legal rights is concerned, as it should be.  No church has to confer its religious status on anyone they do not recognize as a member.  The state, however, recognizes all its citizens as members and therefore should not deny access to legal rights to any sector of those citizens.

  • 11th May
    2012
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  • 10th May
    2012
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sharkandfriends: I saw the best sharks of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. My request has been fulfilled. Unlock shark life achievement.

sharkandfriends:

I saw the best sharks of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

My request has been fulfilled. Unlock shark life achievement.

  • 10th May
    2012
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  • 27th April
    2012
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