Albatross. Get your Albatross here.

[erastes]

Did anyone go to Gaylaxicon?  Does anyone have the book award results?  The website is not showing them yet. *huffs*  No - I'm not nominated, but I know a lot of people who are. IZ IMPASHUNT

I was going to Spork Series 2 of Robin Hood, but it was SO awful I couldn't sit in front of it.  Really the lowest common denominator ever.  Vile Vile TV and BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

Some books arrived - Making Money by Pratchett, which I'm really enjoying, and Leather Boys by Gillian Freeman. Flicking into the book a little way it's easy to see how the film does not reflect the book - hardly at all.  Granted there are hints in the film, but there is a lot more in the book. The protags kiss and make love (albiet off screen) Utterly shocking for its day and as such - damned good for the author.. I'm really looking forward to reviewing this one, as I feel it's an almost completely forgotten book - and as a piece of English social history in the very early 60's should not be lost.

No writing at all this weekend.  This week I'm going to do 1000 words a day or bust. I have got to the stage where I want this book FINISHED so I can get on with something else. 

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I know someone who went and I ask her to send me the list of winner and short list. She said she will send me as soon as she unpack the luggage. I hope to post them today. Elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Someone's done it for me! excellent - very very pleased to see PD Publishing on the list.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I haven't even been able to finish the first series of Robin Hood. This is in spite of Richard Armitage who is teh sex. The massive jarring anachronisms keep bothering me.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I am sure they are all laughing all the way to the bank, but really - the popularity doesn't excuse it.

*gags*

But yes to Armitage. Even in a matrix leather trenchcoat

[spikeyboots.livejournal.com]

I think I managed to get through about half and episode of Robin Hood before I wanted to throw myself bodily at the television screen just to make it stop.

That being said I was rather impressed upon reading an article about it this week - one of the main actors was really candid and impressed by the ammount of "fantasy stories" on the internet about the show, particularily involving the S&M Sherrif. Hee.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh ick. I can't see the sherrif in ANY situations. How horrible.

Gisbourne - yes.

It's shaming. really it is.

Re: RH

[erastes.livejournal.com]

was that the woman with the beehive's name?

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

My surly postman delivered The Boy I Love by Marion Husband which I actually had to hide from myself while I get some work done, even if it is a day off (Columbus Day, a very strange holiday about which I feel very ambivalent - hate the premise, love being in my jammies at 10 a.m.). Speak Its Name has definitely upped my procrastination quotient!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad that you have that book, I absolutely adored it.

And S.I.N has badly affected my bank balance too. I want the whole list, and I get depressed as to how many I haven't got.

However - it IS a finite list. People aren't (yet) writing it as fast as people can read it. This is what publishers DO NOT UNDERSTAND. The fans snap up the titles almost irregardless of quality. *sigh*

Well - best thing to do is find another thing that happened on today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8

and celebrate that instead!

Yay! Indian Air Force Day!

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

I had to try twice to get it; first seller botched the job. I was determined, on the strength of your review. I am taking The Boy I Love to bed with me tonight (heh).

The fans snap up the titles almost irregardless of quality.
Too true! I can only hope that publishers getting a clue about the market will mean a raising of the quality bar. Why are you laughing?

Ooh! I love your idea of cheap entertainment! I pick the Oct. 8 from my birth year: 1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

[stacia-seaman.livejournal.com]

from a friend who was there:

The winner was Vellum, The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan, published by Del Rey.

Short List novels were: Carnival by Elizabeth Bear - Bantam.
Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff - DAW Books
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty - Bantam Spectra Books
Dragon’s Teeth by James Hetley - Ace Books
Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner - Bantam Spectra Books
Snow by Wheeler Scott - Torquere Press (PDF)
The Virtu by Sarah Monette - Ace Books
The Growing by Susanne Beck & Okasha Skat’si - PD Publishing


Apparently, for the second year in a row, they managed not to announce winners in the short fiction or other work categories.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

Am thrilled beyond words that PD Publishing (my publisher) made the short list. They really deserve it.

[stacia-seaman.livejournal.com]

I did some editing for them a few years ago. Barb and Linda are good people.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

robgates has promised that the Short Fiction award winner and finalists will be announced in December.

[aunty_marion]

I saw from Radio Times that Robin Crud was back on the screen, so I knew I'd have an hour on Saturday when I didn't need to be in front of the TV... I merely boggled at the appallingly modern black-leather-biker costumes on both Gisburne and the Sheriff on the front cover, read the article inside, and have immediately forgotten it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was awful. I watched about 10 mins. The Sherrif's sister (I think) turned up with a Marie Wilson beehive and a leather corset she wore on the outside of her dress. Her minions were dressed in black but otherwise were identical to The Guardian Angels in Noo Yawk. Marion's hair has grown instantly to be as long as it was.

Much shouted out "I love a camp!" which is pathetic as they are trying to be funny funny like Russell T Davis and just look like a load of pratts.

I am ashamed of the BBC, and I don't think i've ever been so before.