Wednesday, January 27, 2010

New Story at Fanfiction.net



I wrote a new fanfiction story over the holidays. It is titled "A Father's Heart" and it takes place during Laura and Almanzo's engagement in Season 6.

It is Christmastime, and Charles is struggling with the knowledge that next year at the same time Laura will no longer be living at the little house on Plum Creek. The relationship between Charles and Laura as she becomes a woman and gets ready to marry Almanzo is ripe with so many storylines that I often find myself drawn to this period in the show's timeline.

You can find the story here. I hope you enjoy it!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

What Do You Think of the New Look?

I'm in the mood for change lately. Traveling around the blogosphere checking out new blogs to host my clients has made me want bigger and better things for my blogs. So, with that in mind, I've added a background to this blog.

Let me know what you think of the new look. Feel free to share any ideas you have for what you would like to see here.

Thanks!

New Survey Now Open!




Our new survey asks if you plan to purchase the upcoming Little House on the Prairie cast member autobiographies by Alison Arngrim and Melissa Sue Anderson.

The polls are open until February 13th. Feel free to share your thoughts in this thread.

Spring 2010 Brings Autobiographies from Little House on the Prairie Cast Members



It looks like the time for Little House on the Prairie cast member autobiographies is here. Melissa Gilbert's Prairie Tale is a New York Times Bestseller. And this year will see the release of two more cast autobiographies, one from Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) and the other by Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls Kendall).

I own Prairie Tale, and plan to review it at The Book Connection, hopefully before I receive Arngrim's and Anderson's books, which I already have on preorder at Amazon. These books are due to come out around the same time, and I've received notices from Amazon that they will be shipped earlier than originally expected. Anderson's book looks like it will be out about a month before Arngrim's.



There aren't many details out about Arngrim's book, that I could quickly find, anyway, except that the title is Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, and that it will be released around June 15th by a new imprint of HarperCollins, It Books.

Anderson's book is being released at the beginning of May from Globe Pequot. This is the product description of The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House:


When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven in 1974 until she left the show in 1981, Melissa Anderson literally grew up before the viewers of Little House on the Prairie.

Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as “the blind sister”—and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes readers onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Lou Gossett, Jr., Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash.

In addition to stories of life on the set, Melissa offers revealing looks at her relationships off-set with her costars, including the other Melissa (Melissa Gilbert) and Alison Arngrim, who portrayed Nellie Oleson on the show. And she relates stories of her guest appearances on iconic programs such as The Love Boat and The Brady Bunch.

Filled with personal, revealing anecdotes and memorabilia from the Little House years, this book is also a portrait of a child star who became a successful adult actress and a successful adult. These are stories from “the other Ingalls sister” that have never been told.

I wish both ladies great success with their books. Could there be more cast autobiographies coming in the future? A Dean Butler one would certainly make my day.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Christmas Survey Results



How a year changes things. Last year when I asked our readers to vote for their favorite Little House on the Prairie Christmas episode, A Christmas They Never Forgot barely beat out Christmas on Plum Creek to take the title.

But this year, A Christmas They Never Forgot took 45% of the vote to the 22% that Christmas on Plum Creek received. The Christmas scene from the pilot came up with 18% of the vote, followed by Blizzard with 9% and Bless All the Dear Children with 3%. I wonder if some snow in that episode would have helped out those votes for the last one. Just kidding.

Thanks to all who participated. A new survey is coming soon.