"The morning road leads to Stalingrad..."
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greygirlbeastLast night, Spooky and I canceled our WoW accounts and uninstalled the game from our computers (my iMac, her laptop). So, as I said last night on Twitter, the end of an error, September 2008 to May 2011. Shaharrazad and Suraa, disgusted with Garrosh Hellscream and despairing that Azeroth and the Horde will ever get its shit together and stomp the fuck out of the Alliance, retired to the relative peace of Vengeance Landing in Northrend. Suraa plans to fish. Shahrrazad plans to torture small animals, then raise them from the dead to do her bidding. Oh, and I got back almost twenty gigs of memory on the iMac. I still have my beloved WoW actions figures, and my Shaharrazad mousepad. I'll always have the memories of those times before Blizzard dumbed down the game and pretty much ruined the player classes. And here's The Last Screencap (Suraa left, Shaharrazad right):
That said, yesterday was spent polishing "The Carnival is Dead and Gone," writing the prologomenon for Sirenia Digest #65, and doing the line edits for the "Crimson Alphabet" chapbook. The latter was emailed to subpress late yesterday. And remember, the chapbook comes free with the limited edition of Two World and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume One, which is also the edition with a bonus section of 16 pages of illustrations.
Gods, kittens. Polly Jean Harvey is hot. Her voice could bring me to orgasm. It probably has, in fact. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.
Back to yesterday, the postperson brought my contributor's copies of Johnathan Strahan's Eclipse Four, which includes my story "Tidal Forces." One thing I love about the Eclipse series is that it harks back to the days of muti-genre anthologies: fantasy, sf, and dark fantasy, all in one book. This is a good thing.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions! Because the world insists money is necessary. Thanks!
Oh, this month looks terrifying. Which probably means I ought not look farther ahead than a day or two. I have to outline a book for Roc (resurrecting the title Blood Oranges for the "werepire" novel/s), and do mountains of research for Blue Canary, deal with the page proofs for Two Worlds and In Between, be in NYC on the 17th, and pray to fuck the editorial letter for The Drowning Girl doesn't show up until June. Oh, and get Sirenia Digest #66 written. Gonna be fun, and then some. Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Filled with the Glory of Polly Jean,
Aunt Beast
That said, yesterday was spent polishing "The Carnival is Dead and Gone," writing the prologomenon for Sirenia Digest #65, and doing the line edits for the "Crimson Alphabet" chapbook. The latter was emailed to subpress late yesterday. And remember, the chapbook comes free with the limited edition of Two World and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume One, which is also the edition with a bonus section of 16 pages of illustrations.
Gods, kittens. Polly Jean Harvey is hot. Her voice could bring me to orgasm. It probably has, in fact. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.
Back to yesterday, the postperson brought my contributor's copies of Johnathan Strahan's Eclipse Four, which includes my story "Tidal Forces." One thing I love about the Eclipse series is that it harks back to the days of muti-genre anthologies: fantasy, sf, and dark fantasy, all in one book. This is a good thing.
Please have a look at the current eBay auctions! Because the world insists money is necessary. Thanks!
Oh, this month looks terrifying. Which probably means I ought not look farther ahead than a day or two. I have to outline a book for Roc (resurrecting the title Blood Oranges for the "werepire" novel/s), and do mountains of research for Blue Canary, deal with the page proofs for Two Worlds and In Between, be in NYC on the 17th, and pray to fuck the editorial letter for The Drowning Girl doesn't show up until June. Oh, and get Sirenia Digest #66 written. Gonna be fun, and then some. Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Filled with the Glory of Polly Jean,
Aunt Beast
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:47 pm (UTC)"And make our garden grow . . ."
Gods, kittens. Polly Jean Harvey is hot.
Uh-huh.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:49 pm (UTC)"And make our garden grow . . ."
Yes!
Uh-huh.
It's, like, a supernatural hotness.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:55 pm (UTC)There's a reason she ends up on all my demon lover mixes . . .
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:55 pm (UTC)There's a reason she ends up on all my demon lover mixes . . .
Perfect. Now, I need to make a Daemon Lover mix. Why have I never done that?
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:58 pm (UTC)I do not know, but you really do.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:59 pm (UTC)I do not know, but you really do.
The playlist is piling up in my head even as I type.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:04 pm (UTC)I really look forward.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 05:54 pm (UTC)Only a fool would disagree. Some things, as the Founding fathers said, are self-evident truths. Gods, now I have to imagine Ben Franklin and PJ getting it on.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:57 pm (UTC)Now I have to imagine her as some kind of storm-wrack muse, full of electricity. I can live with that, actually.
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Date: 2011-05-03 05:58 pm (UTC)Crackling...
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:05 pm (UTC)Write her that way. I make a formal request.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:06 pm (UTC)Noted.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 06:45 pm (UTC)And PJ was once with Nick Cave, so, well she likes intellectual freakiness.
And you think, the two of them together. The mind reels, the libido rises into the red.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 06:59 pm (UTC)Yeah...but...it's supposed to be in color, and they're supposed to be singing "Henry Lee."
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Date: 2011-05-03 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 06:23 pm (UTC)Ah, there's the context for last night's triumphant declaration that you were "no longer in Azeroth". Well, may they have peace and plenty of little skittering creatures to call their own. They are a pretty duo.
Meanwhile, Celinn is about 50% through lvl 35 after some quickish questing this morning.
...resurrecting the title Blood Oranges for the "werepire" novel/s
Hmm. I liked Adapted Dark, if only because it very much sounded like a ParaRom title. Unless, of course, you're switching oranges for apples.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:25 pm (UTC)Ah, there's the context for last night's triumphant declaration that you were "no longer in Azeroth". Well, may they have peace and plenty of little skittering creatures to call their own. They are a pretty duo.
It was a bittersweet parting.
Meanwhile, Celinn is about 50% through lvl 35 after some quickish questing this morning.
Not bad.
Hmm. I liked Adapted Dark, if only because it very much sounded like a ParaRom title. Unless, of course, you're switching oranges for apples.
That title would be for a hypothetical second book.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 06:47 pm (UTC)Shaharrazad had her eye of the Howling Fjord even before Garrosh's rise the power.
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Date: 2011-05-03 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 06:59 pm (UTC)Testify!
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Date: 2011-05-03 07:31 pm (UTC)What was "Blood Oranges" the original title for - The Drowning Girl?
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Date: 2011-05-04 12:11 am (UTC)What was "Blood Oranges" the original title for - The Drowning Girl?
Yep.
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Date: 2011-05-03 07:54 pm (UTC)Anything you feel like sharing about Blue Canary? Characters, setting, etc.?
Also, I don't think I ever saw the trailer for The Red Tree. Was it posted and am I blind as a bat?
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Date: 2011-05-04 12:05 am (UTC)My WoW account expired last month. So, there you go.
Congratulations! Now, you just gotta level one of those Rift alts you keep making.
Anything you feel like sharing about Blue Canary?
For now, Top Secret.
Also, I don't think I ever saw the trailer for The Red Tree. Was it posted and am I blind as a bat?
We lost track of it during edited, and the final print was never finished. Though, we may release the rough cuts early next year.
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Date: 2011-05-03 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-04 12:03 am (UTC)Well, in all fairness, we mostly traded it for a cheaper and far more superior grade of digi-crack, Rift (cheaper because we got in on the founder's payment plan).
I'm glad you got at least some enjoyment out of it before the end.
WoW was very good for about a year and a half. Then, we just kept going out of habit and a lack of options.
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Date: 2011-05-03 08:47 pm (UTC)http://www.jphuntley.co.uk/pjh/Gallery1Pictures/bring2.jpg
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Date: 2011-05-03 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-04 12:10 am (UTC)but who can't love her and Nick Cave together?
Only the lame.
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Date: 2011-05-04 11:49 am (UTC)http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/hunger-for-wonderful-stories-a-review-of-eclipse-four-edited-by-jonathan-strahan