Wow, that got interesting

In a good way. It seems people as knows what they're talking about think I should try a Kickstarter with the YA novel revision. I am seriously considering it. Introductory video would have fat white ponies in it.

This would be a rewrite of a completely new novel, which editors have wanted but sales departments have not known how to sell. And now there is Book View Cafe, and sartorias with absolutely kickass editorial notes that mean a solid rewrite. And the price of hay is not (oh god, not) going down.

So. I'm studying up on how this works, having big wibbles about what if nobody comes to the party, and all that. As one does. But it could be so. much. Fun. to rewrite this puppy, and come up with cool rewards, and try something that's very much the wave of the now.

Meanwhile there is this month's hay bill. So, between now and Presidents' Day in the US (February 20th for the rest of the world), I am having a sale. Mentoring 5 hours/$180 (a $20 saving) and Camp Lipizzan book 4 nights or more, get 1 night free (4 nights = $475). Help feed ponies! Come write and do yoga and play with ponies! Email capriole at gmail dot com for available dates and possibilities. Please feel free to pass the word.

Mentoring and Camp details are here. Hourly rate is 'way outdated, and the person who could fix it is sunning herself in sunny LA this weekend because she works for a label that got a nomination and she's going to the Grammys (proud-sister moment here)--it's really $40. But the rest more or less makes sense.

And while I'm on the writing thing, I got carried away yesterday. I read Nora Jemisin's devastating and brilliant blog entry on the unrelenting white-maleness of the sf future, and my brain went sprrrroiiiinnnnggggg! and lo! flash story (it's all la_marquise_de_ 's fault). We'll see if someone wants to buy it. It's out to a market now.

I love when that happens.

In Fat White Ones news, Pooka is recovering from his latest adventure. His cannon is still a bit swollen but the tendon is OK, and he has a big knot on the opposite side of his withers, which is an exacerbation of a side effect of the original injury. We are gently helping him to work through this. He is already in Spring Hormones and is not as cooperative as he might be, but he's taking it like a gentleman.

Mostly.

Yesterday for some reason they all, mares included, wanted me to work on their necks. Tia was particularly interested, and Pandora was insistent. I don't know exactly what that was about; I just work here. But that's the way it was.