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greygirlbeastAh, the weather. I should be taking photographs. I seem to post many fewer photos than I used to. I think it's because loading OS 10.6.3 meant losing Photoshop 7, and now Spooky has to edit all my photos, because Gimp is a piece of shit. Anyway, the high today will only be 23˚F, with a low tonight of 8˚F. Of course, if you look at tomorrow night's forecast low of -5˚F (with a -20˚F windchill), that doesn't look so bad. Everywhere out there is white, and the sun is so bright I keep the curtains pulled shut.
Yesterday, I wrote 1,896 words on Chapter 5 of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, but still didn't find the end of a long conversation. Hopefully, I will today.
I had a very, very encouraging conversation with my agent yesterday. Which was sorely needed, the way things have been the last few weeks, or months, or whatever. Perhaps things are looking up. I think I was most pleased to hear her say "Silk was way ahead of its time." At some point, I'll get this time travel thing right, and my books will appear in the optimum years.
I'm thinking that Sirenia Digest #62 will consist of an advance (very advance) look at The Drowning Girl: A Memoir— all of Chapter 1 —along with a couple of extras. There will be an illustration by Vince for the chapter. Does that work for everyone? I was going to hold off and include the excerpt in #63, but my schedule will suffer less disruption if I move it forward to the January issue. The novel's eating time like mad. In the last month, I've had to bow out of three anthologies, and turn down a number of others. Turning down paychecks, even small ones, drives me nuts. Oh, and if you're not a subscriber you can get an idea (for free) of what subscribers get each month by reading "The Melusine (1898)," which first appeared in Sirenia Digst #31 and is now reprinted in the Winter '11 issue of Subterranean Magazine.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. We've listed a copy of the original On the Road to Jefferson chapbook (2002), my very first chapbook with Subterranean Press. It's also the first time I did the cover art for one of my own chapbooks. We have only five or so remaining, and haven't offered a copy in years. Speaking of eBay, during the last round, a bidder in Tasmania won a copy of Tales of Pain and Wonder. This will be one of the farthest south book shipments we've ever made (rivaled only by a shipment to the south island of New Zealand).
Also, tomorrow I'll be announcing a collaborative project between Spooky and I that's been so very secret this is the first you're hearing of it, even though its been in the works for about two or three months. You'll see.
Last night, lots and lots of WoW. Shah and Suraa finished Deepholm and moved along to Uldum. Which, by the way, is one of my favorite Azeroth regions ever. And we read. And, eventually, we slept.
Now. Doughnuts.
Yours in Providence, Bitterly Cold,
Aunt Beast
Yesterday, I wrote 1,896 words on Chapter 5 of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, but still didn't find the end of a long conversation. Hopefully, I will today.
I had a very, very encouraging conversation with my agent yesterday. Which was sorely needed, the way things have been the last few weeks, or months, or whatever. Perhaps things are looking up. I think I was most pleased to hear her say "Silk was way ahead of its time." At some point, I'll get this time travel thing right, and my books will appear in the optimum years.
I'm thinking that Sirenia Digest #62 will consist of an advance (very advance) look at The Drowning Girl: A Memoir— all of Chapter 1 —along with a couple of extras. There will be an illustration by Vince for the chapter. Does that work for everyone? I was going to hold off and include the excerpt in #63, but my schedule will suffer less disruption if I move it forward to the January issue. The novel's eating time like mad. In the last month, I've had to bow out of three anthologies, and turn down a number of others. Turning down paychecks, even small ones, drives me nuts. Oh, and if you're not a subscriber you can get an idea (for free) of what subscribers get each month by reading "The Melusine (1898)," which first appeared in Sirenia Digst #31 and is now reprinted in the Winter '11 issue of Subterranean Magazine.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. We've listed a copy of the original On the Road to Jefferson chapbook (2002), my very first chapbook with Subterranean Press. It's also the first time I did the cover art for one of my own chapbooks. We have only five or so remaining, and haven't offered a copy in years. Speaking of eBay, during the last round, a bidder in Tasmania won a copy of Tales of Pain and Wonder. This will be one of the farthest south book shipments we've ever made (rivaled only by a shipment to the south island of New Zealand).
Also, tomorrow I'll be announcing a collaborative project between Spooky and I that's been so very secret this is the first you're hearing of it, even though its been in the works for about two or three months. You'll see.
Last night, lots and lots of WoW. Shah and Suraa finished Deepholm and moved along to Uldum. Which, by the way, is one of my favorite Azeroth regions ever. And we read. And, eventually, we slept.
Now. Doughnuts.
Yours in Providence, Bitterly Cold,
Aunt Beast
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:00 pm (UTC)YES!
And I'm glad you like Uldum -- my 85 is trying to get exalted with the Ramkahen so I can get a camel mount...
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:11 pm (UTC)YES!
Enthusiasm noted and appreciated.
get exalted with the Ramkahen so I can get a camel mount...
It will be mine!
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Date: 2011-01-22 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-22 10:05 pm (UTC)That sounds all kinds of awesome.
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Date: 2011-01-22 10:24 pm (UTC)That sounds all kinds of awesome.
Fingers crossed.
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Date: 2011-01-22 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-22 11:01 pm (UTC)I think I'd say I like the culture and tolerance up here more than lack of both where I used to live. The weather is a small price to pay.
However, the snow's usually kind of nice.
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Date: 2011-01-22 10:58 pm (UTC)http://www.pixelmator.com/
(And yeah, I have an ulterior motive: I enjoy your photos!)
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Date: 2011-01-22 11:03 pm (UTC)(And yeah, I have an ulterior motive: I enjoy your photos!)
Thanks, but I'll probably just wait until I can afford to replace Photoshop. I've used it since the 90s, and I'm set in my ways.
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Date: 2011-01-22 11:18 pm (UTC)Ah, you were too kind about "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." It was one of those movies where if everyone died it would be a blessing. The drip playing the geeky hero spoke like a cross between Seinfeld, Christian Slater and a goat.Even after too much wine it was still painful.
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Date: 2011-01-23 12:23 am (UTC)A super-special treat in the Jan issue sounds wonderful.
Very good, then.
The drip playing the geeky hero spoke like a cross between Seinfeld, Christian Slater and a goat.
Nicely said.
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Date: 2011-01-23 12:29 am (UTC)I definitely look forward to tomorrow's announcement, the Aunt Beast Spooky collaboration.
Our next North Carolina snowfall comes early Tuesday morning - my daughter may never finish exams.
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Date: 2011-01-23 02:31 am (UTC)Sirenia #62 sounds like a winter treat, thanks for the upcoming preview.
I'm glad you think so
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:30 am (UTC)(Or are you like Harlan and holding out for being elected God?)
And remember, you can't make the conversation end by having a meteor hit your characters. (Are meteors EVER handy in your work?)
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Date: 2011-01-23 02:33 am (UTC)Your agent got you your island?
Oh, if only. Just a small island. Just a spit of rock.
Or are you like Harlan and holding out for being elected God?
Nah. It'd be crap work. Well, except for the dealing out retribution part.
And remember, you can't make the conversation end by having a meteor hit your characters.
See above.
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Date: 2011-01-23 02:38 am (UTC)Here's to the Smite Button...
Or! "Welcome to God Mode. Choose OT, NT, Kali..."
(No, Chris, you don't actually want God Mode to be like THAT.)
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Date: 2011-01-23 02:49 am (UTC)I do like the idea of the Smite Button.
Kali...
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Date: 2011-01-23 02:54 am (UTC)Oh, my...yes, indeed. That would be splendid.
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Date: 2011-01-23 03:06 am (UTC)Funny thing, I really was afraid there might be objections.
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Date: 2011-01-23 04:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 06:12 am (UTC)twatwaffles
Insert Beavis snicker.
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Date: 2011-01-23 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 04:50 pm (UTC)The idea of "literary" fiction makes me groan. By definition, all prose fiction is literature, and, also by definition, all literature is literary. Still, publishers and editors continue to misuse the word literary, as do readers.
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 06:39 pm (UTC)