Halloa!

[The Solitary Cyclist]

Halloa! I just realized that I ought to have introduced myself in this thread!

My name is Madison, I am newly seventeen, and am from Columbus, Ohio. Some of you may know me from Holmesian.net or from the "Letters of Mary" Yahoo! listing. I have read Laurie R. King's entire Mary Russell series; The Beekeeper's Apprentice, O Jerusalem, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, and The Game are my favorite books in the collection. I came upon the series by the way of a helpful librarian; I had finished the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was in need of some new Holmes stories! The books are not about Holmes, it is true, but I truly adore them all.

In my spare time, I love to bike. I will bicycle anywhere if I can afford the time. Thus, I am "The Solitary Cyclist" of The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

My other hobbies include running, reading, writing, acting, photographing, and day-dreaming. I work as a volunteer at my library and do some freelance writing. In the winter months, I slave away in school!

Nice to meet all of you!

[vicki]

Hello and welcome, Madison! Great screen-name, btw. You sound like you have a great balance among your artistic, intellectual and athletic selves, which is great. I don't have much of an athletic self, but I do run--not very fast or very well, but I can think through things as I do it and then enjoy the endorphins afterward. :)


I came upon the series by the way of a helpful librarian

<Radiates librarian love> I still think back with tremendous gratitude to all the librarians I knew growing up--for their kindness, encouragement and the introductions they gave me to so many new worlds and characters I might never have found without them. That's great that you're a library volunteer--it's a great way to pay a little back.

What kind of writing do you like to do? We seem to have a good many people who enjoy writing around the VBC. I do a little fiction-writing, but I'm not very disciplined about it. :(

I think I saw in another thread that you're related to Harper Lee, which is very cool. I live a few hours north of Monroeville, AL, where she grew up, but have sadly never been to visit there, although To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. There was a NY Times article about Lee that said she had boxes of manuscripts under her bed that have never seen the light of day. I'm mighty curious about those!

[ValentineWiggin]

<Radiates librarian love> I still think back with tremendous gratitude to all the librarians I knew growing up--for their kindness, encouragement and the introductions they gave me to so many new worlds and characters I might never have found without them. That's great that you're a library volunteer--it's a great way to pay a little back.

I'm all for librarian love. I'm actually planning on getting my degree in Library Science after I finish college so that I can go be an awesome reference librarian somewhere. I just knew I needed to have a job around books.

[vicki]

Going into library science is the new hip, happening thing to do! I linked to a great NY Times article about it in this thread (http://laurierking-com.w01.merchbox.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=80).

[The Solitary Cyclist]

Hello and welcome, Madison! Great screen-name, btw. You sound like you have a great balance among your artistic, intellectual and athletic selves, which is great. I don't have much of an athletic self, but I do run--not very fast or very well, but I can think through things as I do it and then enjoy the endorphins afterward. :)




<Radiates librarian love> I still think back with tremendous gratitude to all the librarians I knew growing up--for their kindness, encouragement and the introductions they gave me to so many new worlds and characters I might never have found without them. That's great that you're a library volunteer--it's a great way to pay a little back.

What kind of writing do you like to do? We seem to have a good many people who enjoy writing around the VBC. I do a little fiction-writing, but I'm not very disciplined about it. :(

I think I saw in another thread that you're related to Harper Lee, which is very cool. I live a few hours north of Monroeville, AL, where she grew up, but have sadly never been to visit there, although To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. There was a NY Times article about Lee that said she had boxes of manuscripts under her bed that have never seen the light of day. I'm mighty curious about those!

Thanks so much for the warm welcome! Librarians are so great and I love working at the library. I do editing on fan fiction and am currently doing a job editing letters for a book. I mainly write fiction, especially mysteries and romances, and many, many reports for my school. I am also the main writer for my school yearbook. I dabble in just about everything, actually!

Anyway, thanks again for the welcome. :D

[library_student]

I'm all for librarian love. I'm actually planning on getting my degree in Library Science after I finish college so that I can go be an awesome reference librarian somewhere. I just knew I needed to have a job around books.

Why not get your B.S. in Library Science? :-) University of Maine at Augusta has an online program... That's what I'm doing! http://www.uma.edu/lisdegreeprogram.html

[vicki]

I dabble in just about everything, actually!


It's good you're trying a lot of things out and getting experience in a broad range of writing areas. It sounds like you might be interested in a writing career--or maybe you'll do the library science thing, like Library Student and ValentineWiggin. Or you could even be a librarian and a writer, which would be pretty cool.

[VictoriaMisselthwaite]

Halloa! I just realized that I ought to have introduced myself in this thread!

My name is Madison, I am newly seventeen, and am from Columbus, Ohio. Some of you may know me from Holmesian.net or from the "Letters of Mary" Yahoo! listing. I have read Laurie R. King's entire Mary Russell series; The Beekeeper's Apprentice, O Jerusalem, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, and The Game are my favorite books in the collection. I came upon the series by the way of a helpful librarian; I had finished the Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was in need of some new Holmes stories! The books are not about Holmes, it is true, but I truly adore them all.

In my spare time, I love to bike. I will bicycle anywhere if I can afford the time. Thus, I am "The Solitary Cyclist" of The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

My other hobbies include running, reading, writing, acting, photographing, and day-dreaming. I work as a volunteer at my library and do some freelance writing. In the winter months, I slave away in school!

Nice to meet all of you!

Hello there! Nice to see you here as well! :D

[The Solitary Cyclist]

Hello there! Nice to see you here as well! :D

Heyloo, dear! I think I know you from a few places, including HN! :D I also live in livejournal land by the name of "MeGoobie".

[The Solitary Cyclist]

It's good you're trying a lot of things out and getting experience in a broad range of writing areas. It sounds like you might be interested in a writing career--or maybe you'll do the library science thing, like Library Student and ValentineWiggin. Or you could even be a librarian and a writer, which would be pretty cool.

I would really love to be a fiction writer. But, I think that I will combine my love of children and love of books to become a high school English teacher. I realise that high school students are not "children" (for goodness' sake, I'm in high school!), but I would like to work with people with opinions. I will also be able to expand my mind beyond "Dick and Jane" sentence structure. Who knows? Perhaps I might be a librarian. I just know I must do something involving writing. If I do otherwise, I will write in my spare time.

[vicki]

That's a great ambition, SC! We'll always need good high school English teachers (and good teachers in general). And I think you could do a lot to foster life-long reading by working with teens, which would be good for them and good for society in general.

Re: the fiction writing--that seems to be something that interests a lot of LRK fans. One thing I've thought of that might be fun would be a VBC fiction-writing group of some sort. It would have to be original fiction only, as we can't do the fanfic thing here, but it could be fun. It's something to think about for the future, anyway. :)