A simple concept: six sentences to win you over. Here’s mine, from “Palakainen,” one of the stories from Unikirja. As a special treat, you can read the entire story at Mythic Journeys. See the rest of the titbits at Six Sentence Sunday. And think about buying the ebook version of Unikirja. Kiitos. Swanlike she was…
Category: Unikirja
Lumottu (Enchanted)
Tonight my play LUMOTTU will get a reading at the Arts Society of Kingston’s Playwrights’ Lab New Play Readings at 6:30 PM ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 Broadway Kingston NY 12401 Arja lives with one foot in this world and the other in the mythic world of ancient Finland. Her family has moved to the…
Counting the Days
…until the packing is done. Then I remember how few days there are and gulp, because there’s still so much to do. On a more positive note: my play Lumottu (“Enchanted”) from Unikirja gets a reading next Tuesday in Kingston at the Arts Society, 6:30 pm. If you can show up, do! It will be…
Reading: Lumottu
I am very pleased to announce that my play Lumottu will receive a fully cast reading at the Arts Society of Kingston on May 31st. Casting will commence soon. As they make clear on the website, “These are workshops rather than productions, whose focus is on process, not product. It is the hope of the…
Unikirja Book Trailer
Here’s my new video, featuring the beautiful music of Ulla Suokko, whom I’ll be celebrating this week over at The Women’s League of Ale Drinkers, part of the month long festival of creative women. I’m trying to focus the rhetoric of these trailers on opening up the sometimes obscure titles of my books to give…
Advertisements for Myself
I’m beginning to doubt their usefulness and they seem to cause nothing but headaches in the making, yet here I go again: a general book trailer using my new “branding” concept, as developed in conversation on this blog: hard to spell, easy to read! The music is courtesy of my friend Gerry Luoma Henkel, who…
Review of UNIKIRJA
I don’t think I remembered to post this before. My review from the Finnish North American Literature Association (FinNALA) by Beth Virtanen: K. A. Laity’s Unikirja, Dream Book, is written in a pastiche of genres on a single theme, Finnishness and daily life. Laity uses poetry, prose and drama to capture Finnishness in mythic and…
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Unikirja Reviewed!
Rie McGaha over at the Pagan and the Pen reviewed Unikirja and had some really wonderful things to say about it. In fact, I’m thinking my feet aren’t quite touching the ground: K. A. Laity has written a marvelous collection of stories that have the dreamlike quality of bedtime stories. I was mesmerized by these…
Guest Blogging at Sia McKye’s Thoughts over Coffee
Join me over at Sia McKye’s Thoughts…Over Coffee where I’m blogging about the difficulty of introducing my weirdly-titled short story collection, Unikirja, as well as Finnish folklore and mythology. Sia is a terrific blogger who hosts all kinds of writers and writing tips, so you would do well to bookmark her. I’ll be checking in…
K. A. Laity 