C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 221

jane’s got fish movies—a hoot.

We’re introducing our koi to tubifex worms. Nuff’ said. They’ve gone from too shy to surface to…well, you’ve got to see KOI: the motion picture….

daily business: 3112 words on the short story, and new additions to the store…

The short story is filling the void it usually takes to sort my head out after an illness or convention—in this case both; which is good. Bren’s story is waiting, but I don’t like to work on a novel when I’m still exhausted. It takes more energy than I’ve got.

But inspired by a reader request for the upload of certain items to my Amazon store: http://www.cherryh.com/www/lookatbooks.htm 

I have added a silly lot of things, from socks for flipflops to pond clarifier, fish pumps, cameras,  phosban ta

All right, let’s have some fun: let’s outline a sword and sorcery story…

…no, not the one I’ll be writing for Conquering Swords, but it’s a type, there is a sort of a formula (feel free to violate it or turn it on its head): and who knows, maybe we’ll vote (informally, since I don’t have a poll widget, nor can find one) on favorite takes. Feel free to take this as far as you want, and understand it is community property, so if you get inspired and want to go write the great American S&S novel, you can do so—just don’t gripe about other writers having a similar plot!

We have a problem, and you can help…

Just today, I have had to take after 2 online sites offering copies of my work. This is proliferating faster than you’d believe. Please, if you visit a site that offers any of my work, unless it is directly attributed to a specific publisher, ie, Harper-Collins has some out there, and there are some legitimate DAW offerings, but they should directly reference the publisher as the source.

If you would believe it, a certain site which I will not name since they are thus far cooperating, has a post

if you caught anything from me at Miscon—or have a scratchy throat—

I can only apologize. I thought it was allergy and maybe a sinus infection when I set out for Miscon. I am persuaded it is a virus, and probably at its most contagious (OSG can check me on this) during the first 24 hours you have it/are coming down with it. I tried to stay away from people. But Jane and OSG, who were sharing a room with me, were out there, and they were at parties, and are now suffering from it.

Symptoms: scratchy throat, high up, then to stuffy nose, upper respiratory, chills, f