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March 21, 2010

Thanks to everybody who bought something at the book sale.

Books *should* go out in the latter half of this week to everybody who has paid, so if you have not, now would be a good time.

Yay!
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Published on March 21, 2010 10:59

March 19, 2010

Complaint Department: Hey! Big clumsy monkey! Watch your butt!
Monkey: Ooops. Sorry. I was attempting to sit beside you, but you have a devious tail.
Complaint Department: Devious tail? Are you mocking my disability?
Monkey: Devious tail syndrome?
Complaint Department: It deeply affects my quality of life!
Monkey: Watch it. If you chase me out of bed entirely, you won't have anything warm to sleep on at all.
Conplaint Department: Details. Hey, fill up your water glass. I stole it all while you wer...
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Published on March 19, 2010 11:14

[00:10] [info:]matociquala: Oh, there we go. Persian vampire type object.
[00:11] [info:]matociquala: I think I will mash-up a demoness and these spirits of women dead in childbirth
[00:12] [info:]matociquala: I like the bit about causing SIDS by suckling infants on toxic milk
[00:14] [info:]stillsostrange: My Lamia approves.
[00:14] [info:]stillsostrange: They should go for drinks and bowling.
[00:14] [info:]matociquala: It's a related myth
[00:14] [info:]matociquala: Lamashtu
[00:15] [info:]matociquala: Mesopotamian version of the same demon
[00:15] [info:]<a>
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Published on March 19, 2010 04:33 • 1 view

March 18, 2010

[16:57] [info:]matociquala: The book I am currently reading for review doesn't suck.
[16:57] [info:]cristalia: ooh.
[16:57] [info:]cristalia: which?
[16:57] [info:]matociquala: Mind Games, Crane. It's mind candy, but it's honest mind candy.
[16:58] [info:]cristalia: I started Gemma's book last night.
[16:58] [info:]matociquala: And the protag is not brittle and mouthy
[16:58] [info:]cristalia: She can fucking write.
[16:58] [info:]matociquala: Who?
[16:58] [info:]cristalia: Gemma Files.
[16:58] *** [info:]kafkonia has joined the conversation.
[16:58] [info:]cristalia: It's A B...
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Published on March 18, 2010 21:08
Just send the Bad Draft of Grail to agent, editor, and a couple of carefully selected first readers who are allowed to see my work at it's absolute worst.

It is a very bad draft. But the plot is all in there, even if the contractors are obviously still at work, and several major plot developments currently exist as [bracket notes: go back and put this in] and it's got 75% too much exposition, and four chapters are only represented as outline notes, question marks, "So who DID kill what's-her-n...
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Published on March 18, 2010 16:41 • 1 view
And the word is that Bone and Jewel Creatures is at the printer and will be shipping next month.

It's a fairly short run, and as far as I know there are no plans to reprint and I dunno what brick and mortar distribution is going to be like, so you might want to pre-order here.
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Published on March 18, 2010 03:02 • 2 views

March 17, 2010

Fine Print!

Sale will go through midnight EDT Friday or until we are out of books.

Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price (rounded up: I'm taking off the damned pennies) plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$12.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the...

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Published on March 17, 2010 18:33 • 1 view
Man, Sam Beam writes him some pretty lyrics.

Started late, but still got 2K today and finished Chapter 19, for Bad Draft values of "finished." Since a bunch of the early-chapter exposition and faffing about will eventually have to come out, and there are whole scenes that are little better than summarized, I'm in good shape for an eventual 400-page manuscript, even though it looks right now like it's running long.

Tomorrow, on to Chapter 20! Which means I have three chapters, an interlude, and...
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Published on March 17, 2010 17:30 • 1 view
This morning, when I took the dog for his walk, I also Released A Smouse which was caught in the live trap last night. Our smice are deer smice (also known as white-footed smice), which are (a) adorable and (b) reservoirs for Lyme disease and leptospirosis. Yay?

Anyway, I did not have to shake the smouse from the trap, because it was alert and oriented and ready to go--as soon as I opened the trap it sprang out into the nearest pile of leaves and there flattened itself. The dog did not notice....
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Published on March 17, 2010 13:56 • 1 view
This may officially be the worst Bad Draft I have ever written. Entire scenes are currently being dispensed with with [bracket notes in which something happens.:]

The good news is that I have five chapters (and a lot of backfill) left to get through, and I more or less know what happens in all of them, though there is a certain amount of "and then X does Something Heroic, figure it out later."

The funny thing is, despite the Badness of the Draft, I'm actually quite confident in the book as a who...
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Published on March 17, 2010 02:13 • 2 views

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