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SCD Goff

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	I work as an office manager and editor in the publishing industry.
Location	Dublin, Ireland
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	Thanks for checking out my blog! I work in the publishing industry by day, and at night, I come here to talk about books, writing, What the Industry Wants, the day that's in it, vampires, banshees, and how I want to be a writer and not just talk about being a writer. I have a book! It's a YA title about a girl's struggle against her own dark self. Also, she's kind of a vampire. It's called Lady Languish, and it'll be self-pubbed on March 20, 2012 - the centenary of Bram Stoker's death. Creepy. Also, I review! But only self-pubbed YA titles. Gimme.
Interests	Books! Natch. Specifically; reading: Philip Pullman, Hilary Mantel, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, R.L. Stine, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Rilke, Antoinette Fraser, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, any Bronte at all, Edith Wharton, Sam Beckett, Lucretius, Turgenev, Virgina Woolf, Mati Unt - or The Russians, The Estonians (the New Russians in my opinion), The Women, The Modernists, The Post-Modernists, The Victorians, The Romantics and maybe most of all, The Kids. Writing: teen fiction. I have other, lesser interests: gardening, whining that I want a cat, and thinking-about-going-to-the-gym-all-day-then-not-going. And drawing.
Favorite Movies	I'm a sucker for bolshy action movies and have the dubious claim of being perhaps the only person in Ireland who can watch a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie from beginning to end with total fascination. Also Terminator 1 and 2, KickAss, the earlier works of M. Night Shyamalan, any Zombie movie, Dark City, Watchmen, The Piano, Out of Africa. Also BBC's adaptation of Persuasion is really good.
Favorite Music	I'm listening to a lot of Tegan and Sara at the moment.
Favorite Books	Favourite YA titles are just like anyone else's - the Narnia series, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games is pace-perfect, Day of the Triffids, Hatchet, I am David, Children of the Dust, the Secret Garden. All of these books are either brilliantly written, brilliantly paced, or have created intoxicating worlds that the reader can't resist - and in a couple of examples, all of these things. In terms of being a grown up I love love love Joyce, Molly Keane, 'Frankenstein' ... oh the usuals