"never to be published" O RLY?

So Beedle was "never going to be published," eh?  Yanno, JK - I don't believe one word that comes out of your mouth.

In nicer news things that never get old:

- Receiving contributors copies. My copies of Cruise Lines arrived (about a year after I was expecting them, but - yay!) and my cheque-let from Amazon.

- Royalties! Got the first amount for Speak Its Name which is small but encouraging. I have made more in one month with this book than I have in a year with Chiaroscuro. It raises my opinion of ebooks, a little!

- Great Youtube clips

I can't embed this video as there's no code, but it popped up on my flist a few days ago and is unmissable. Shatner (who, I'd forgotten, is startlingly pretty) playing Alexander the Great before he became Captain Kirk. The video is disturbingly hot (although it shouldn't be...) and Shatner wins MAJOR FTW points from me for: 1. Riding Bucephalus at full gallop, 2. In a very short skirt (ouch) and 3. waving a great big sword at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODQCdKEKp0

Just got back from the library with the tri-weekly haul of goodies:

I challenge you - is your library smaller than mine? Mobile libraries don't count (they'd be bigger, anyway.)



Reading haul:

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Strangers(homosexual love in the 19th century) Graham Robb
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Gone to ground by John Harvey
Queer London by Matt Houlbrook
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Louche Lucius Cat Spam!

Just in CASE Mr Lucius decides to bog off again (no sign of it yet, thank goodness) I took a ton of photos of him today.  Look how he's matured since his icon picture!!

Snobbish good looks under the cut (image heavy)( Read more... )