Birthday gals! A Meme. Blogging.

[erastes]

Firstly:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY rwday and HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to enolabloodygay. Ooops.  I always miss it.  I love you both madly.

Secondly a meme gacked from gehayi: Give me the title of a book I haven't written and I'll outline the plot for you.  (I ruthlessly reserve the right to use said title and plot in any further writing, but will mention the inspiration!)

Thirdly:  Blogging.  Blogging is more effective than promo, believe you me.  I've been attempting to chivy the members of two blogs I belong to, to encourage them to blog regularly, but it's been a little like herding cats; people just say "oh I've got nothing interesting to blog about" and stuff like that.

Hell - I don't post about anything interesting - or at least I don't find it particularly riveting most of the time, but some people do. No matter what you write, whether it be about model trains or the English Civil War or Lighthouses - SOMEONE will find it interesting and if they then click on a link to find out a bit more about you,then that's good, right?  Readers like the connection that a blog post provides, I know I love reading GRRM's blog - or Ellen Kushner's. It gives you an in to their lives - and so, in a smaller way, it works for us mere mortals too. 

I'm far more likely to read "the secrets of cat biscuits" or "shoe shopping gone wrong" posted by an author, rather than YET ANOTHER promo/excerpt/buy buy buy buy my book/I've had yet another review post that they might blog about.

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Here's your title:

The Seventh Time I Said Goodbye

(I used it as a faux title for a pen name for a journalist who said it combined lust, love, longing, and professional boxing. I'd love to see what you do with it.)

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Have a title (i'm waiting for things to upload to the net)

"Cephalopods - Beware!"

Feel free not to use this as it may have been inspired by my lunch time cider.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's a bittersweet WW1 romance about a young man in the military who, pre-war met a coin collector in Rome. They have one weekend together and then soldier boy is called back to his regiment and war breaks out. The coin collector gives him 12 small roman coins and says that everytime they meet he must return one. He get together seven times - and then the soldier never comes back.

The coin collector goes to Rome after the war ends and throws the remaining 5 coins into the trevi fountain.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

AWWWWW!

*melts* That's adorable. You need to write this, so I can read it.

[enolabloodygay.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes - only 23 days late! :-)

Not to worry, it makes the birthday joy last longer.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'll give you two so you'll have a choice: Breath of Heaven or Snow, Stone and Silk.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

why are you home - and why haven't you been in touch for EONS?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's a slip-stream experimental novella from the viewpoint of a man in 19th century Bethlehem Hospital interspersed with the journal of a physician who is experimenting with new techniques to help the mad.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Breath of Heaven is a short story and concentrates in long and languid detail the aftermath of a one night stand, starting from the immediate afterglow of orgasm to the rolling over and dealing with the body of a stranger in your bed - watching him breathe, waiting for him to wake up - running through all the paranoia you get in these moments - where's this going (if anywhere) will be want to see me again - then slowly slips into a morning sex scene and almost cyclic, fades out just after an orgasm.

Snow, Stone & Silk is a historical saga interspersing Alexander's conquest of the east with the expansion of the Silk Road.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Title:

Between Juniper and Catnip

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm so obvious...

This is a further adventure of my space-bois (which no-one has met yet but I have two short stories featuring them) Kyrian and Teless who run a freighter "The Joint Venture" in some misbegotten end of the universe. On a short hop between Juniper and Catnip (Juniper is terribly misnamed as it's a water planet with no landfall at all) and Catnip is run by committee and takes 3 weeks to decide when to have a meeting) the engines fail (due to Kyrian's insistence on buying parts from 2nd hand merchants). They find that the wiring is being eaten by a kind of light-bug and it means they have to plunge the ship into total darkness for a whole week. Tempers are frayed...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

[g]

I love it!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Argh - I just realised I completely slandered Kyrian... It's Teless who's the reckless one. Sorry Kyr.

:)

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a series of titles:

Earthrise, Moonrise and Planetfall.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oops.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

A 3-novella arc about Michelangelo, his life, art and his love of young men.

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Cool. Why Michelangelo, in particular, if I may ask?

[lferion]

Title: Wassailing in May

As far as blogging goes, I completely agree -- and I would never have found you & your work without LJ. I'm enjoying "Standish" and looking forward to more of your work.

[enolabloodygay.livejournal.com]

I am home because I have two weeks leave.

I haven't been in touch for Ians because I have been hellishly busy, but will be online later tonight, life permitting1

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I wanted to explore the renaissance, and he studied astromony etc - fuzzy on the details but I always think of him as a man of the stars. Sounds silly.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's very kind of you to hang around for my random wibblings.

Wassailing in May is a Victorian Steampunk slash in a London deep frozen by nuclear winter. Robert Saxmundham lives in a tiny garrett with his artist lover Matthias Angel. Robert is a solicitor's clerk. The French invade (bicycle powered balloons) and Tim and Robert find themselves recruited into the secret service.

[kalitakasar.livejournal.com]

Title: A Conference of Owls

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

3 Titles:
~ Payment on Delivery
~ The War Hammer
~ Dead Air