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[erastes]

FINISHED FINISHED FINISHED!!!

Frost Fair is at 35K and I'm done, baby!  *slam dunks*

I put Gideon through HELL, I tell you, HELL!  bwahahahahaha!!!!

Drawback to living in the country  - FLIES!!!! I'm being driving insane at the moment. I've got a swat, a flykiller pen (which complete crap as I paint surfaces with it which the flies then land on and laugh at me) I have a hanging fly killing unit thingy, not an electric one and they just seem to like that and I'm going MAD!

Next year I'm going to invest in some fly screen material and plaster it over all the windows.  You guys with screen windows and doors don't know how lucky you are.

Comments

[eledhwenlin]

Yay you! :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

:)

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

Slam dunk that sucker over to my inbox, dear. I'm home today.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Done!

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

Ha! I just sent my response to you, too. :D

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Congratulations :D (On the finishing rather than the flies, obviously ;) )

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You have the best icons.

:) Thanks!

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Yay, finishing!

Also, have you ever tried the bowl of sugar water approach to flies? The bastards drown themselves before becoming more of a nuisance.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I shall try that, thanks! I'm going mad!

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Congrats! And ooh, yes, fly screens are essential.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Way to go on finishing the story! have you tried that sticky fly paper stuff?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I may have to resort to that, even though it's so disgusting. I'm desperate!

Thanks!

[canarieschick.livejournal.com]

Well done babe! Iz proud! :- D xx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

Oh, hurrah! Good for you!

I live in the country, too. Last night a mosquito-looking thing the size of my freakin' thumb was squatting smugly on my wall. I was assured by a neighbor these do not bite, which is the only reason there's no For Sale sign out front today. Good luck with the flies. Arrogant pests. Julia Linnea's suggestion about the sugar water is a good one. Make it a nice, deep bowl!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Lee!

Yes, I love the silence... the bugs. Not so much, specially when spiders land your face in the middle of the night!

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I can't wait to read FF - to which publisher is it going, again?

A silver lining, bug-wise is that in August, just at sundown, we get swooping swarms of dragonflies. They're stunning. And I didn't mind the night the fireflies made camp in the shower. But yeah, the spiders and flies and mossies and earwigs, I could live happily without.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh, how nice!

It's going to Linden Bay, so it will probably be ebook and then print - that's how they normally work, and will be out around December sometimes.

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

Something to look forward to! I love e-publishing for the speed of production.

[lunalelle.livejournal.com]

Congrats! It's always such a relief to finish something.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Now I need to start something....

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

...yeah, we're kinda glad the flies mostly keep out. Our screens haven't done the job in years, especially not since Bodie tore a hole in the sunroom door.

(And, yeah, he is named for the guy from The Professionals.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Is it a big hole? Can't you patch it?

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

It's more useful as a cat door, really. We don't mind the occasional fly. :-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

:)

Thanks!

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing Frost Fair! *gives Gideon a get out of hell free card*

Ugh, flies! Fortunately we don't live near any livestock, just a pineapple plantation, so we don't get a lot of flies. Mosquitoes though? By the millions! Don't know which is worse, actually.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Poor boy, I feel sorry for my protags, as UST is not enough punishment for them. Hey, at least he didn't end up in Newgate!

At least you can smother yourself with mossie cream - I get those too, not millions, but a few. Love the country, hate the flying monsters.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :D And major suck re: the flies. :/

Angie

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

YAY! I'll bet it sells like crazy, what with folks getting Amazon gift cards for Xmas, etc.

Can you just get some screen fabric from a DIY place, run a bead of caulk around the window openings, and stick the screening to the caulk? (We've got screens, but the previous owner didn't keep 'em up, so we have small visitors. Good exercise for the cats. Can you get hold of lavender or pennyroyal oil, or citronella candles?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And I hope so, it's not the 40k they wanted, but it's 35, so it's nearly there. They've given me a day or two to look it over so I might be able to push it up a little more.

I'm definitely going to investigate some temporary screens next year, that's for sure, perhaps ones that hang from the lintel with a weight as the cats do love to loll out of the window.

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Just saw this. Have been super-mad-busy at work and haven't posted/ read blogs for days!

Flies. Ick. We have some big-ass spiders in our house, so we have very few flies. As long as the spidrens keep well away from me that's okay.