Silver Leaves issue #4 | White Tree Fund Features Three Poems by Kathryn Darden

Silver Leaves issue #4 | White Tree Fund

I was honored to be included among such illustrious writers and illustrators. I have had poetry, articles and reviews featured in all four editions of "Silver Leaves."

Contents

• Colin Duriez: A Tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien
• Peter Kenny: Dragons of Myth and Legend
• Dragons in Middle-earth: A Timeline
• P.R. Miller: The Quandry of Dragons
• Alison Baird: The Un-Dragoning of Eustace Scrub
• Elijah David: Elmarch of Lindon, the Author’s Story
• Constance G.J. Wagner: Smaug’s Riddle
• Julie Dobbins: Goblins in Our Midst: The Fight Against Human Trafficking
• Kerri-Anne Cundill-Hinds: The Land of Doom
• Anne Marie Gazzolo: The Measure of Love
• Kathryn Darden: A Friend Like Sam To Be
• Christopher Russo: Tuesday
• Constance G.J. Wagner: Dragon is Aloft
• Maureen Mann: Tolkien Reading Day 2011
• Jonathon D. Svendsen: Dragons: The Ultimate Adversary
• Bernadette Barnes: The Eye of the Dragon
• L. Lara Sookoo: Interview with Dr. Dimitra Fimi
• L. Lara Sookoo: Interview with The Tolkien Professor
• Peter S. Beagle: Dragonsong
• Bennett Dobbins: How to Train Your Dragon: A Step-by-Step Instruction Manual. . .
• Richard Bulze: The Black Dragon Cup Finals Are Set!
• Jef Murray: The Unmarked Byway
• Kathryn Darden: Dragon Acrostic
• Alexa Chipman: The Fiery Awakening
• Mark Ostley: The Invention of Middle-earth
• L. Lara Sookoo: The Dragon
• Alexandra-Felicity King: Interview with Arjan Kiel
• Michael Noer: How Much is a Dragon Worth?
• Kathryn Darden: The Snow Sprite
• Scott Holbrook-Foust: Two Trees Twining: Rays of Light in the Northern Night
• Missy M. McClure: Of Winds and Wings
• Constance G.J. Wagner: Sacramentum Midgard: Frodo as Sacrament to Middle-earth
• Anne Marie Gazzolo: Heart of Darkness
• Jef Murray: The Picture Book
• L. Lara Sookoo: Never Laugh at Live Dragons
• Letter to the Editors of the Silver Leaves Journal
• Constance G.J. Wagner: Echoing the Ainur’s Song: Doug Adams’ The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films
• Bennett Dobbins: The Lord of the Rings: An Overview of the Soundtracks
• Steven R. Dajic:Role-Playing and the World of Tolkien
• Alexa Chipman: Beowulf and the Dragon (Review)
• Julie Dobbins: Middle-earth: Visions of a Modern Myth (Review)

 

Artwork

• Kerem Beyit: Steampunk Dragon (front cover)
• Ted Nasmith: The Crystal Dragon (inside front cover & pull-out)
• Collen Doran: Hobbit Feet
• Ted Nasmith: Tolkien Portrait in Pencil
• Ben Phillips: Lila
• Tim Kirk: Dragon
• Leilani Amorey: Bilbo and Smaug
• Cassandra Stevens: Brave Thing
• Valentina Levshina: Glaurung & Nienor
• Jef Murray: Smaug
• Jef Murray: Awaiting the Burglar
• Jef Murray: Turin and Glaurung
• Jef Murray:Corner Dragon
• Jef Murray: Cerulean Dragon
• Jef Murray: Glaurung
• Jef Murray: Treebeard
• Alexandra-Felicity King: Wellinghall Smial photo
• Ted Nasmith: Smaug and the Lonely Mountain
• Ted Nasmith: Smaug Attacks the Town of Dale
• Jef Murray: Blue Dragon
• Chris Mills: Dragon’s Dawn
• Kerem Beyit: First Lesson
• Connor Cochran: Gathering Swords
• Tim Kirk: Gandalf’s Fireworks
• Annette Jones: Black Dragon Drawings
• Steven Thomas: Moria Balrogs
• Steven Thomas: Isengard Uruk-hai
• Steven Thomas: Grond
• Steven Thomas: Angmar Ringwraiths
• Alberto Ramirez: Smaug Invades the Lonely Mountain
• Jef Murray: Dragonflight
• Tim Kirk: The Game
• Donato Giancola: The Great Dragon Smaug
• Else Tennesse: Middle-earth Postage Stamps
• Chris Mills: Turin & the Fall of Nargothrond
• Alberto Ramirez: Treebeard
• Anna Repp: Smaug
• Jef Murray: Lucy and the Spellbook
• Jef Murray: Boy and Book
• Leilani Amorey: Dragons
• Jef Murray: Writing Dragon
• Jef Murray: Reading Dragon
• Tim Kirk: Sea Dragon
• Donato Giancola: Éowyn and the Nazgûl
• Leilani Amorey: Death of Smaug
• Dave DelaGardelle: Smaug

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Hot 100 on Yahoo!

I have reached another milestone in my writing for Yahoo! I been in the to 500 writers almost every month the past couple of years, and I recently reached 1,000,000 page views on Yahoo! Now I am pleased to report that in September, I was named one of the Top 100 writers out of hundreds of thousands of Yahoo! contributors in August. 

I knew August was an exceptionally good month and am happy to have finally broken into Yahoo's HOT 100. Now the pressure is on to do it again!

Find me on Yahoo!

Reaching 1,000,000 Page Views on Yahoo!

I hit 1,000,000 page view earlier this month on Yahoo! Voices (formerly Associated Content). This means my articles have been clicked on over 1,000,000 times with 1,000,000 of the clicks staying open long enough to be counted as a page view -- at least a minute or two to count.

Interview with Kathryn Darden about Doll Collecting

Interview Kathryn Darden: Collecting and Barbie in the News

I recently  found this interview on Tumblr. Kaitlyn Williams interviewed me for a podcast this spring. I had completely forgotten about doing this doll collecting podcast. If you click the link, you can hear the interview.

Excerpt:

Darden began writing for Barbie Bazaar in the 1990s and continues to freelance in her spare time. She has published articles in Miller's Fashion Dolls, Dolls In Print and Virtual Dolls to name a few. She frequently blogs for Examiner.com, in addition to maintaining her own blog.

Read the article and listen to the podcast here: Kaitlyn Williams and Kathryn Darden: Collecting and Barbie in the News - dOLL'N AROUNd: 

USA Today Interviews Kathryn Darden about Twilight Movies & Books

USA Today writer Maria Puente interviewed Kathryn E. Darden for about an hour about a two-part article series she wrote some time ago about the "Twilight" movies.

Here is the USA Today article:

Adults fret that 'Eclipse' lacks good role models for teens -- By Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 7/7/2010

Excerpt 1:

From: 'Virtuous' messages

Kathryn Darden, a Christian freelance writer on arts and entertainment for several online publications who has written about Twilight, says there are some "virtuous" messages in the saga, but "I've never recommended it for (unsupervised) teens — it needs to be read by parents and discussed first."

Excerpt 2:

From: The faithful are divided

Darden says one reason for the division is that witches are specifically condemned in the Bible, while vampires are not even mentioned. Still, "many Christian readers shy away from things that are demonic, and (they think) vampires are demon," she says.

But Darden defends the suitability of at least the first Twilight book for older teens (with parental guidance) because its themes are "faith-based," and the characters talk a lot about their souls.

"Edward refuses to turn Bella (into a vampire) because he's concerned about her salvation, he thinks being a vampire is equivalent to being damned," she says. "He puts her well-being above all else, and that's a strong positive message. Teen culture is too often getting the opposite message from Hollywood."

Part 1 of the series Maria Puente interviewed me about for the USA Today article:

A Christian look at Twilight books & movies - Part 1

More of my Twilight articles:

Twilight controversies: how will the 'Breaking Dawn' movies handle Twilight sex and birth scenes?

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