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Cultural openness

On June 10, the opening ceremony of the third edition of the Nostre Mar festival took place. A festival wishing to bring people together so as not to spread anti-LGBT hatred, racism and anti-semitism.

I listened to the first part devoted to a conference by the historian Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci on the theme “fascism and anti-semitism” as well as the second part which was called “entre-là” and which was devoted to music.

It was an intense moment of reflection and exchange.

The memorial also has very interesting books.

Here are some photos from the evening:

éoliennes — The wind turbines outside the Rivesaltes memorial

baraques du camp — One of the camp barracks outside the memorial

Céline — The author at the memorial a little before the conference

two people in front of a screen — Inside the auditorium, the historian and a member of the memorial

panel representing the speaker and the group and announcing the festival — On this poster, two photos, one representing the speaker and the other the group in concert. The photo I wanted to post of the concert was blurry so I opted for an existing one.

Link to the memorial to inform you.

Festival of book and imaginary 2024

I will be present this Saturday, June 15, 2024 for the Book and Imaginary Festival all morning.

You can meet me at Latour Bas Elne avenue du Tech, place de la Fontaine.

You can discover my books through several extracts or ask me questions. An event for which I can’t wait to meet my audience.

couverture from the duel book in Albi

Cover from the book Fantastic L.A.

Several artistic disciplines will be brought together (Literature, Drawing, Music). On this occasion you will also be able to discover games as well as role-playing games.
The Book and Imagination Festival is organized in partnership with the city public library and the Catalan authors’ circle. Free admission.

Here are the GPS coordinates to get there:

Latitude 42.6021

Longitude 3.0029
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Photos of the 15th of june 2024

view of the living room — Early morning in the book fair

The author valette céline — I sit in the shade of the trees

building — public library next to the book fair

advertising visual — On this insert is mentioned the comments from the readers of my books, there is also a poster representing the cover and a qrcode

E-reader and accessibility

As part of the accessibility of digital books, the reading tool is very important. It must be adapted. Currently, very few e-reader models can both read text in audio and allow correct navigation. When I talk about navigation, I mean keys allowing you to move through the text and select actions indicated in the menu.
For my part, I tried a first model that was lent to me some time ago. He read the text of my book, which is quite astonishing and which, for people whose need arises, proves very useful function text to speech. Enlarging sans serif fonts is also an essential feature for reading digital books.

Dystopia and Utopia

Currently I am working on several projects and actively preparing a professional book fair. In my journey, this led me to think about different subjects. In the field of science fiction, the literary form that we call dystopia is for many of us the opposite of utopia. And yet, utopia and dystopia have a form of complementarity. The themes they address are often very similar. For my part, I think that utopia and dystopia are interesting to explore. The two points that worry me on this subject are the dogmatism of the single thought that certain utopias would tend to present through the stories as well as the pessimism of the situations related in some of the dystopias

Music and inspirations

I really like Music, it accompanies me in professional life as well as in private life.

If I publish this post today it is also to talk about the importance I attach to listening to all styles of music, multicultural enrichment and meetings during festivals and concerts whatever they may be large or small sizes.

This weekend, I listened to the group Cuerteto Tafi as part of the Aspres spring festival. An event that I particularly like and for which I would like to post a link today so that you can discover a list of artists with open sounds and horizons.

“They can cut off all the flowers, they won’t stop spring.” an inspired quote from Pablo Neruda pronounced by the band during the concert

List of links to find out more:

France Info Culture website about the group

Aspres Spring Festival Blog

Thriller in the countryside

Screen of the ebook reader — Cover of the book

Recently, I read “In the factory of green thriller: ecopoetics and rurality

(Belphégor 2023) which collects several articles on the theme of crime fiction

Green.

It is not a novel, it is more of a study on the theme of the environment and the

detective novel.

If I’m talking to you about it today it’s because rurality is a concept which is still

associated with a certain form of cliché.

Not all the time fortunately.

Personally, I think this doesn’t make sense.

Reading this book gave me some thoughts that I share.

today with you in the hope that they will accompany you in your path.

In the green thriller, several subjects are addressed, notably the concept of

guilty space that I mentioned previously.

Several texts analyze how environmental issues fit into the narrative of a

detective novel and what are the specificities rural setting in a thriller.

A large place is given to American literature through the notion of

nature writing. However, a portrait of Western literature and particular aspect

of the Ukrainian detective novel is drawn up which is very interesting.

Sant Jordi book fair 2024

I will be present this saturday 27th of april for the Sant Jordi in Torreilles (France).

You could meet me in the morning till 11 hours. to discover my books.

cover of the book duel à Albi

cover of the book Fantastic L.A.

This event would happen with le cercle des auteurs catalans during les floralies chemin de Juhègues. Free admission.

GPS coordinnates to come :

Latitude 42.762618

Longitude 2.986588

Collective of authors in catalan area

I am pleased to announce that this week I joined the circle of Catalan authors. A professional approach that I consider very important for discussing the arts and our profession. A possibility for you too, dear readers, to come and meet us in places favorable to the sharing of ideas.

Meeting around large print publishing

The meeting around the edition in large print took place online on Thursday, March 28, 2024 on the website of Occitanie book and reading. It is part of the reading for all. This event brought together several professionals around a theme related to the accessibility of the book.

I participated in this meeting which seem interesting for the artists here is a little report on this subject. The interventions of several participants including a visual disability awareness association and a specialized publishing house.

One of the most important information for reading adapted books concerns the font used, its size and the fact that it is necessarily without serif. The text needs to be formatted (paragraph, leading, etc.) too. A font has been developed following several studies, firefly is available on this website.

Tips

Avoid fonts with serif, that is to say with wheelbase, for reasons of accessibility.

Prefer a suitable size for reading or that can be enlarged with a support tool.

Regarding formatting air paragraphs with interlines.

Following the conference, a font that can be downloaded and used free of charge was proposed by a speaker: link to the website of this font.

Updating a trailerbook

As part of the reissue of my books in digital format, I updated the trailer for Fantastic L.A. because the cover of the book changed on the version published in 2023. I use the open shot software on Linux, it seems to me that It is also available on other platforms.

I acquired the video files and composed the music. Then, repair the track by track assembly.

interface of my software when I created my book trailer — Open shot software interface and my computer

Rendez-vous on my books page

Valette Céline

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