Another group of random things

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1.  I have a copy of the Authority, Relentless. Squeeful. I also have mango/orange juice. *to die for*

For a non-comic reader (not really since I was about 10, anyway, and that was The Beano, the The Dandy and Bunty) it takes concentration to read these "new fangled" graphic novels.  They don't flow easily to my eye and they are so detailed and so amazingly drawn that you have to sit and study even the pictures with no words because they say so much.  But wonderful, all the same. Am very much looking forward to getting to grips with the characters. I'd really love the entire set, but sheesh - the PRICE. Not until I'm richer, I think.

2.  Does anyone have any resources for Elizabethan dialogue?  Not in plays but in everyday life? Letters, diaries, that sort of thing? No, I'm not planning to write something with ye authentic dialogge, as that would be rather funny.  There's THIS, but GUH, look at the price of the bloody thing, and no, my stupid library doesn't have it, not even in Norwich.

3.  No, that's not what I'm doing next, though - I've decided on that and I love it.  Can't say much yet. But if you know Black Narcissus and The Thing... mix those together, make it gay - you won't be far off. Bwahahaha!  *looks shifty as a certain Irishman looks daggers at me*  Sorry Fleury... the research is a bit daunting for me, right at the moment....

4. EPIC has delivered a statement about last year's EPPIES - specifically Lucinda Logan's "A Hidden Passion" which is... open to a little interpretation, if you don't mind me saying.

They say "After the first round of judging, the works of the finalists are sent to another panel of judges, and winners in all eighteen categories are selected."

Then go on to say: "During the judging is where any questionable book is reported and reviewed by the committee to identify any problems and disqualify any book involving plagiarism, which is what happened in this particular case."

If the problems with the book were reported and the book was disqualified, I can't work out how the book ended up in the FINALS of the GLBT category. I know that I emailed them on 14th December and the book was withdrawn later that day!

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I've had it argued to me that not everyone would have recognised the copied text as quickly as I did - or gehayi did - or anyone who's at all familiar with the original did but I find it almost impossible to believe that: orphan goes to strict boarding school, becomes governess/tutor, falls in love with brooding owner of huge house, agrees to marry him, finds he has a wife in the attic, runs off, comes back and marries him - could have been missed by anyone. Is there really any person (particularly readers) who doesn't know about the mad wife in the attic? How many films and television adaptations have there been?

And yes, Dreamspinner were remiss in not pulling the book from the EPPIES after they pulled it from their catalogue. However, they do seem to have weathered it well, and are producing some decent stuff now, which I applaud them for.