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OMG! OMG! OMG! This is exciting new. As a fan 4 books pulllleeeeaassseeee. 8-) Thanks for the info. Do you know when the print copy will be out roughly?Sarian
Print copy of which? From MLR the print copy usually comes out about 2 weeks after the ebook. Anyway, if you want more info PM me - I'd be happy to discuss it... tomorrow, as I'm going to bed now. Turning in the short story is enough for tonight.
Really Kaje? 4 books? YIPPEE!!! You've made my day with that little snippet!
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Oh, I'll always use certain publishers -- I don't want all my eggs in one basket. Regardless of how lucrative the basket is.
I'm continuing to whittle down the list of publishers I will continue to use. But there's no question that publishers -- some publishers -- still bring something to the table even in these days of DIY 70% royalties from Amazon.
Yes, totally awesome. I’m looking forward to more print edition of your works. I already have most of your ebooks and I’m just waiting for rest of them to come out in print. You’re one of the fab fives that I auto buy in ebooks and prints. Please if you do, do print editions, don’t forget the hot bods. 8-)
Thank you! That's flattering. I don't know about hot bods. :-D I'm looking at various photos of men, though. I seem to gravitate toward black and white.
Josh wrote: "I seem to gravitate toward black and white."Oh, hell yeah. Starkness makes perfect sense. Hot bods would cheapen the look, though. Intriguing faces and simple images would, I think, be more appropriate (like the covers for Frank Tuttle's Markhat series at Samhain; that model is perfect).
Josh wrote: "I'm looking at various photos of men, though. I seem to gravitate toward black and white...."
I think black-and-white would definitely suit some of your books. And the covers do stand out amid the color array in a thumbnail.
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You have minions? No fairs!
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You have minions? No fairs!"
Well, not many. But I'm trying to lure more in with promises of coffee gift baskets and mood rings.
I would totally be your minion for a mood ring. As long as it didn't leave a black circle around my finger. Throw in some Pop Rocks and we're golden.
Josh wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Josh wrote: "And minions! I even have a couple minions now. Soon I shall rule the universe!!!!"You have minions? No fairs!"
Well, not many. But I'm trying to lure more in with..."
You got me at gift basket, but FYI, I prefer tea. I'm Brit that way, thank you. Does that make me an exotic creature here? :D
Cleon wrote: "You got me at gift basket, but FYI, I prefer tea. I'm Brit that way, thank you. Does that make me an exotic creature here? :D ..."Tea, definitely. And I'm an American, well, Canadian originally so maybe I just haven't been corrupted by Starbucks even after 30 years.
I'm an American and I never drink coffee, no matter how much milk, sugar, whipped cream, caramel, or pumpkin spice someone dumpd into it. Tea all the way.
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It could work. I once got a henchman with a cookie.
Nicole wrote: "Josh wrote: "Well, not many. But I'm trying to lure more in with promises of coffee gift baskets and mood rings."It could work. I once got a henchman with a cookie."
Tea or cookie. Hm... tough choice. Can I have both? I promise I won't gnaw your arms off if I get wet. :D
Print copy of which? From MLR the print copy usually comes out about 2 weeks after the ebook. Anyway, if you want more info PM me - I'd be happy to discuss it... tomorrow, as I'm going to bed now. Turning in the short story is enough for tonight.Sorry, I meant the turnaround time from ebook to print for the third installment of LL from MLR. Thank you for the info and for giving your readers something to look forward to. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it might come out before Xmas.
Sarian
I'm continuing to whittle down the list of publishers I will continue to use. But there's no question that publishers -- some publishers -- still bring something to the table even in these days of DIY 70% royalties from Amazon. That’s a great deal. I see what you mean.
Thank you! That's flattering. I don't know about hot bods. :-D I'm looking at various photos of men, though. I seem to gravitate toward black and white.
Ahh, I was thinking of that contest you did a while back for “In a Dark Wood.” The artist did an awesome job with that cover. I know you can’t always have a hot bod on every cover, I just meant once in a while throw your fans some good eye candy 8-) Maybe an occasional tan skin.
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Lastly, I notice there were two WIP titles on your website “Ill Met by Moonlight” and “Shadow on the Sun,” and I was wondering if they are the remaining works slated for this year or something you are working on for 2013? Thank you for any information, Mr. Lanyon.
Sarian
Tea drinker, here, too. Brewed from tea leaves preferred.Cookie? Cookie? Nicole, what do you need your henchman to do? Henching sounds a bit more taxing, and potentially violent, than minion.
But a cookie!
Can I part-time hence for you, Nicole, and use the rest of my time to minion for Josh? Then I'd have half a cup of tea and half a cookie.
mc wrote: "Tea drinker, here, too. Brewed from tea leaves preferred.Cookie? Cookie? Nicole, what do you need your henchman to do? Henching sounds a bit more taxing, and potentially violent, than minion.
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We could join forces here, mc. I'd take the other half. Of cookie and cup of tea. ;-))
Um, what exactly does a minion or henchman do?
mc wrote: "Tea drinker, here, too. Brewed from tea leaves preferred.Cookie? Cookie? Nicole, what do you need your henchman to do? Henching sounds a bit more taxing, and potentially violent, than minion.
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I don't need minions or henchmen (that's what kids are for, right?) but I do offer homemade biscotti to go with the tea...
Calathea, you're on.I think henching sounds more bodyguard-like. Or intimidation-oriented. Revenge-type work. Weapons carrier. Minion sounds more like a PA (and I think in this crazy crowd, I need to clarify that that's a 'personal assistant,' NOT a Prince Albert. Sheesh). Albeit one that's hunched over and maybe has a twitch. And a maniacal laugh every now and then, that ends up in a fit of coughing.
I'm sadly better suited to minioning, rather than henching.
ETA: And between the two of us, we speak a few languages. That has to count for something.
Tracy, that's just cruel :) I love biscotti. Almond?
right now, my cookie jar is filled with pumpkin biscotti. Gorgeous nutmeg bite to it. I have a chocolate almond recipe I love (want to make mini ones for Christmas and dip them in melted chocolate) and I have a recipe for Snickerdoodle biscotti I'm wanting to try out. I also have two Rosemary biscotti recipes I'm excited about; one sweet and one savory, which is particularly intriguing. :D
mc wrote: "Calathea, you're on.I think henching sounds more bodyguard-like. Or intimidation-oriented. Revenge-type work. Weapons carrier. Minion sounds more like a PA (and I think in this crazy crowd, I..."
Thanks for clarifying the tasks!
Maybe we could share them according to our personal competences? So, I volunteer for the fit of coughing, not sure about the maniacal laugh, though... ;-))
I'm sure the languages would get us a bonus of a kind... maybe surgar for the tea?
No sugar necessary for me, though I think if I'm maniacally laughing and you're coughing fitfully, some honey or a couple of Ricola wouldn't be amiss.Tracy, I had the most awesome pumpkin creme brulee the other night...and you are quite the baker!
Thanks! Biscotti are actually quite easy, I think -- they fall more under the category of "time-consuming," along with drop cookies and bread. (yum. bread bread bread. Think I may make some bread today. I have a recipe for pumpkin crescent rolls. Books and baked good just seem to go together, don't they? Especially when you can add in a blanket and a cup of hot tea...)
Baking is not easy, Tracy! I can cook, but baking is not in my wheelhouse.Spam, I know not of, Kyle. Perhaps it might be best to keep it that way.
I'm beginning to think that a Q&A with JL potluck would be quite yummy.
I've made biscotti (almond, FWIW) before and it's definitely in the time-consuming but relatively easy category. Missing my Nonni's triple chocolate...
Kyle wrote: "Tracy wrote: "right now, my cookie jar is filled with pumpkin biscotti. Gorgeous nutmeg bite to it. I have a chocolate almond recipe I love (want to make mini ones for Christmas and dip them in mel..."EVERYTHING goes with spam!
mc wrote: "Baking is not easy, Tracy! I can cook, but baking is not in my wheelhouse.Spam, I know not of, Kyle. Perhaps it might be best to keep it that way.
I'm beginning to think that a Q&A with JL pot..."
I'm in for the potluck. I can provide oodles of biscotti and bread! I find baking easier than cooking in general, because it's less frantic. Bread, especially, has an almost meditative quality to it. Whereas just basic cooking always seems like such a rush to have everything done at the right time and the same time. I can do it; I just don't enjoy it as much.
Kyle wrote: "Biscotti is great with spam!..."OK, if you're going to drop in with bad taste combinations on a level of a Culvers restaurant signboard (the one near my house currently shouts "Reeses Pieces Tuna Melt") then you still need to define "piquorist" for us.
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It could work. I once got a henchman with a cookie."
Henchmen are easy. We all know that.
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That's very true. And grooming their coats in summer is always a hassle.
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I drink both. Coffee on weekend mornings and lukewarm, unsweetened white tea all through the days.
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I avoid Starbucks whenever possible. I like to support indies whenever possible (provided the quality is up to par -- but matching Starbucks isn't difficult). We're trying to eat at fewer chains too. Partly it's to support small business, but partly it's to try and eat something that isn't the same old, same old. It all gets to be so mechanical after a time. Go to the same place and order the same food.
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Ill Met is scheduled for late December. If I can drag my weary-ass brain through it one more time. Shadow on the Sun will be more like 2013. I think I'm dragging my feet on that one because it's very complex -- Japanese internment camps, etc. I know I don't have the mental energy to do it justice right now.
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I think it could be condensed to...saving sanity, one writer at a time. :-D
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Jeez, Tracy. You just dropped in to gloat about your culinary feats of cookie wonder? How about sharing with the rest of the class?
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Before Books on Tape went out of business (or maybe they didn't? Maybe I did) anyway, I stocked up on all these audio books I have yet to listen to. I've been thinking maybe instead of reading at night I'd listen to an audio book. Granted, I'll probably only listen for five minutes before I'm asleep and the tape is winding on without me.
Josh wrote: "I think I'm dragging my feet on that one because it's very complex -- Japanese internment camps, etc."I read The Lonely War by Alan Chin at the beginning of this year and I liked it a lot, but it's not a romance. I guess it's really a difficult subject.
Josh wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Um, what exactly does a minion or henchman do? ..."
I think it could be condensed to...saving sanity, one writer at a time. :-D"
And here we thought we've been driving you insane. LOL.
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I read The Lonely War by Alan Chin at the beginning of this yea..."
I think so, yeah. I mean, observing the political climate now, you can see how that war hysteria and fear took over.
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Oh, but it's a good insanity. :-D
Josh wrote: "Tracy wrote: "right now, my cookie jar is filled with pumpkin biscotti. Gorgeous nutmeg bite to it. I have a chocolate almond recipe I love (want to make mini ones for Christmas and dip them in mel..."I can share. I really really can. I just need boxes, addresses, and a little help with postage. Or, y'know, that potluck mc mentioned. :D
Besides, I'm fairly sure tea or hot chocolate are necessary to reading, and what goes better than biscotti to dunk in the hot beverage of your choice as you read?
I'm also willing to share recipes, although this is, I know, not the place for *that*.
And as far as reading? I'm really really having a hard time settling on something. I have a couple of new things I want to read, but my parents came to visit last week and brought the last couple of boxes of my books from their house (only took 12 years or so, hah!) and they're ALMOST all stuff from my early-teenager-dom. So I've been shelving them for my kids, and because I'm quickly running out of shelf-space, trying to pare down. Little to no success with that, sadly, and now I have this desire to spend a month or two doing nothing but glutting myself on Alcott, Montgomery, Sidney, Henry, Blume, Jacques and the other, oh, 50 or so authors whose works are well-represented in the playroom. BTW, anybody want a quite good copy of
? I appear to have two. As well as some other books -- Marion Zimmer Bradley and Adriana Trigiani, and possibly some Roald Dahl.
Lou wrote: "Has anyone here read George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books? They are an absolute riot. They are historicals written from the POV of a coward and a cad, and give hilariously upside-down view of b..."Starbucks usually gives the best deal & service for coffee compared to other coffee houses at my city, esp since I get all year free upsize & sometimes buy 1 get 1 free deal with my credit card. But the coffee tastes vary from one outlet to another. So, Starbucks doesn't always have the best tasting coffee, but we don't go to Starbucks for coffee anyway. lol. We hang out or use their wifi.
Lou wrote: "Has anyone here read George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books? They are an absolute riot. They are historicals written from the POV of a coward and a cad, and give hilariously upside-down view of b..."I enjoyed those; went through a binge with them a few years back.
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You're right. It's easy to get a henchman. It's keeping him that's the hard part. If he's worth anything at all there's always somebody waving a cookie at him, hoping he'll swing his ax for them instead of you.
Sadly, I was forced though the "honor among thieves" clause of the Evil Boss Handbook, to relinquish rights to my Henchie once he got married. Now he henches for another.
I've had one other henchman since Henchie--that one went to Ukraine to hench for the Peace Corps. (I know it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it really isn't.)
Right now I have two operatives, a gun-for-hire and a protege. The operatives are named Michael and Alan who use their ninja skills silently assassinating proofreading errors. They're my first operatives and it's pretty exciting to be expanding my reach into the operative area.
The gun-for-hire is Ian who, every six months or so, moseys into town, has a showdown with QuickBooks and then rides off to parts unknown.
And the protege is of course Jemma, who is subduing Irregualars. Like a lion-tamer surrounded by big cats, she wields that chair and whip with gusto.
@ mc & calathea
Well, well, well.... Before I hand over my cookie, I'd like to know a little about your henching skills. Do either of you have a weapon of choice? How do you feel about suicide missions? Are either of you allergic to spandex?
I am so out of this league. The best I can do is attach wings to my dogs, dress them in Johnny Roventini bellhop suits, and pretend they're my band of flying monkeys.Too bad they can only jump off the ground. And nothing makes them fearsome except their gas.
K.Z. wrote: "I am so out of this league. The best I can do is attach wings to my dogs, dress them in Johnny Roventini bellhop suits, and pretend they're my band of flying monkeys.Too bad they can only jump of..."
*snicker* I am making my littlest minion-I-mean-son a moth costume for Halloween. He will have wiiings! (and why the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is my brain playing a Red Bull commercial? I don't even *drink* Red Bull.)
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