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Turtle Soup: On Finding My Voice
Issue 1 of Robin Layne's second zine. Begins the chronicle (in non-fiction prose and in poetry) of the author's journey from "turtle" to "robin"--how she grows toward who she was created to be by fining a voice lost due to abuse. Continues the food metaphor begun with "A Character Sandwich," but covers a different theme. Since as far as the author knows turtles don't have voices, the voice of the turtle is a miracle.
20 pages, Paperback
First published July 14, 2015
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Robin Layne
16 books11 followersI formerly edited books for Barking Rain Press. I continue to do freelance editing and writing as Robin Layne Enterprises. I'm available for more writing and editing assignments. Please write me if you'd like to try my services. I keep a blog about my work-in-progress, AVS: The Anti-Vampirism Society, a YA series of novels.
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I've always loved stories. From earliest childhood I enjoyed hearing my mother read to me and watching movies, acting out fairy tales, drawing pictures and dictating to my teacher the words to go with them. I made my first picture book in second grade, and in fifth grade, wrote my own poetry book. When other kids teased me, I thought, "I'm going to be a famous artist and writer someday, and when they read about me in the papers they'll be sorry they made fun of me."
By the time I was in junior high I had invented my own fantasy world, which I continued to write about into adulthood. Even more exciting than the magic of inventing stories is the miracle of a loving relationship with God--a wonder I find harder to put into words than any fiction or poetry.
I've always got at least one novel in the works. So far, I have published a number of poems (including one in Authors by Design's Medley of Fiction), and a few short stories in print and online. "The Hearth Dragon's Tale" was published in the Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. In 2000, I created the spiral-bound book "Enlarging the Tent: Poetry and Prose by Robin Layne" to benefit Good Samaritan Ministries. In summer 2011, I released a new edition of the same. I posted a short story from it in installments, called "Manuel Pascal."
From 2005 to 2010, I edited a newsletter called "Sweet Comfort"; it included a lot of poetry and short non-fiction, as well as articles and, in the latter months, a column.
I have been working for some years on a series of YA vampire novels. "Blood Ties," a short story based on parts of what is now the second book, won a YA writing contest by AuthorsbyDesign.com, and later won "best original fiction" at a Kumoricon in Portland, Oregon. I have posted this story on my profile. AuthorsbyDesign also sponsored a "Twisted Fairy tale" contest, and I won that after re-writing a lesser-known Brothers Grimm story and calling it "Mother of All Good Children."
I wrote and illustrated my own zine, "A Character Sandwich," which features short sketches about fictional characters sandwiched between stories about myself. In July 2015, I came out with my second, the first issue of a series called "Turtle Soup: On Finding My Voice."
I completed my Bachelor of Arts in English, minor in writing, from Portland State University in spring 2012. In August 2013, I finished the UC Berekely extension online series, earning a certificate in professional editing.
I am excited to be a part of the Goodreads community. I look forward to the day when I can announce the publication of my first novel.
Bio:
I've always loved stories. From earliest childhood I enjoyed hearing my mother read to me and watching movies, acting out fairy tales, drawing pictures and dictating to my teacher the words to go with them. I made my first picture book in second grade, and in fifth grade, wrote my own poetry book. When other kids teased me, I thought, "I'm going to be a famous artist and writer someday, and when they read about me in the papers they'll be sorry they made fun of me."
By the time I was in junior high I had invented my own fantasy world, which I continued to write about into adulthood. Even more exciting than the magic of inventing stories is the miracle of a loving relationship with God--a wonder I find harder to put into words than any fiction or poetry.
I've always got at least one novel in the works. So far, I have published a number of poems (including one in Authors by Design's Medley of Fiction), and a few short stories in print and online. "The Hearth Dragon's Tale" was published in the Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. In 2000, I created the spiral-bound book "Enlarging the Tent: Poetry and Prose by Robin Layne" to benefit Good Samaritan Ministries. In summer 2011, I released a new edition of the same. I posted a short story from it in installments, called "Manuel Pascal."
From 2005 to 2010, I edited a newsletter called "Sweet Comfort"; it included a lot of poetry and short non-fiction, as well as articles and, in the latter months, a column.
I have been working for some years on a series of YA vampire novels. "Blood Ties," a short story based on parts of what is now the second book, won a YA writing contest by AuthorsbyDesign.com, and later won "best original fiction" at a Kumoricon in Portland, Oregon. I have posted this story on my profile. AuthorsbyDesign also sponsored a "Twisted Fairy tale" contest, and I won that after re-writing a lesser-known Brothers Grimm story and calling it "Mother of All Good Children."
I wrote and illustrated my own zine, "A Character Sandwich," which features short sketches about fictional characters sandwiched between stories about myself. In July 2015, I came out with my second, the first issue of a series called "Turtle Soup: On Finding My Voice."
I completed my Bachelor of Arts in English, minor in writing, from Portland State University in spring 2012. In August 2013, I finished the UC Berekely extension online series, earning a certificate in professional editing.
I am excited to be a part of the Goodreads community. I look forward to the day when I can announce the publication of my first novel.
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July 22, 2015
It may be considered bad manners to review my own book, but I just want to say here that the ongoing process of writing through my healing and growth is important to the process, and I'm not the only one who finds it so. This past Saturday (July 18, 2015), when I attended the Portland Zine Symposium, I went to a workshop on writing to deal with trauma. The instructor (a recovering rape and incest victim) said she finds it very therapeutic not only to write down what was done to her and how it has affected her, but validating to self-publish what she wrote. A note of caution: It is important to use discretion in deciding what to share, and to whom.
The "Turtle Soup" series may crisscross back and forth in time as I deem helpful, but the general direction will be toward better health as I continue to learn to speak up when I want and need to, and in better ways. This zine was a long time in coming, but I hope from here on that I will make a new one each year. Message me if you want to order one. (The same goes for "A Character Sandwich."
The "Turtle Soup" series may crisscross back and forth in time as I deem helpful, but the general direction will be toward better health as I continue to learn to speak up when I want and need to, and in better ways. This zine was a long time in coming, but I hope from here on that I will make a new one each year. Message me if you want to order one. (The same goes for "A Character Sandwich."
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