"Every streetlight reveals a picture in reverse. Still, it's so much clearer."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday was a low-yield nuclear device. Yesterday was the best birthday cake imaginable. Yesterday, after much stress and wringing of hands and so forth, I received word that the NEWS THAT IS SO GOOD, SO COOL is actually going to happen. But! No, I cannot tell you what it is, and it may yet be some time (as in, maybe, months) before I can talk about this publicly. So, everyone's gonna have to be patient. Most especially me. Secrets cause me physical pain, and this is a big secret. Anyway, I wanted to say that, but please don't ask me to say more.

Now, I'm thinking about brier patches.

Yesterday, there was far too much tension to write anything, but somehow I managed to do proofreading for Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart, though there was also too much tension to proofread. We made it through "Beatification," "Flotsam," and "Regarding Attrition and Severance." I'm probably giving far too much thought to how these very dark, very sexual stories will be received (On the whole, this batch is quite a bit darker and more "disturbing" than those found in The Ammonite Violin & Others), but it's sort of hard for me not to do that. Fret over their reception, I mean. I keep waiting to be savaged by RadFems or Xtian extremists (the two groups are, actually, almost identical in many respects) or some other bunch of blood-thirsty loons.

Somewhere, a few of you got the impression that Blood Oranges will be published under a pseudonym. Nope. Not the case. If and when I do Blue Canary, the YA book, then I'll be writing as Kathleen Tierney. But that has nothing to do with Blood Oranges, which isn't YA.

And, really, I think that's all for now.

In Unexpected Brevity,
Aunt Beast

Comments

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

You are a tease of a Beast, but I'm glad whatever-it-is has got a thumbs-up.

Thank you. The tease may be a dying art.

Why RadFem savagery? Sure, a lot of your female characters go through a fair old battering, but that's no evidence of misogyny. Your heroes don't get off lightly, either.

I'd make the same argument, but there's some pretty brutal stuff here. And we're not talking about rational people.

I doubt your popcorn has the same taste as most other people's.

This is special popcorn.

Spooky says it's maple-bacon popcorn.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

*maple-bacon popcorn*

Well, that's unique.

Also, I checked your really early entries, and wondered about "The Girl Who Sold The World". (That has gotta be my favourite Bowie album.) Was this an early title for another story?

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

wondered about "The Girl Who Sold The World". (That has gotta be my favourite Bowie album.) Was this an early title for another story?

Actually, that was to be a bit of Farscape fanfic, but I never finished it. Yeah, Bowie-inspired title.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd love to read that. I had a major crush on Chiana, John, Zhaan, Aeryn...okay, most of the characters. Even Pilot. Oh gods, fanboy gush.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

This was Nebari...completely removed from the actual plot of the series.