Hmmm

[erastes]

I published a call for Carina Press this morning who are looking for historicals.  I do have a Regency short that i could bulk up a bit, so perhaps I’ll take a chance with them. They don’t say specifically that they accept glbt for that call, but their launch info said they would consider it. Anyway – we’ll see. Let me know if you sent something – I’d like to see what the acceptance/rejection rate is like there.

http://keirasoleore.blogspot.com/  - Someone really needs to tell Ms Solerore that gold text on dark red, however Regency, is unreadable. Thank God for my “Zap Colours” button.

Pushing on with Tributary but OMG I want to kill them for being so terribly, TERRIBLY English. Next time I’m definitely writing about men who want to get each other’s clothes off and don’t care about being PROPER.

Lucius is definitely Garfield reincarnated. Yesterday he tucked into Ravioli and today he’s eating lasagne.

OH. AND. If the yanks try and change Cadbury’s chocolate ONE SMIDGE (because frankly the American chocolate I’ve had – just… isn’t…) then there’s going to be trouble, see?

 

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Comments

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Does work become classified as historical cuz it's been on one's computer for sooo long, lol?

Go Lucius! Does he have tomato whiskers?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No. You cannot pass off your work to me as gay historical just because you started it thirty years ago. *snort*

No - and I don't know how he does that. I'm covered in the stuff and he's entirely clean. *baffled*

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

*lol* I am but a trier!

Note to self: knit erastes a catsuit.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Cadburys!! *sobs* I bought a pack of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups to remind myself how scary US 'candy' is and they taste like peanut butter entombed in ear wax.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Could I? I mean that would mean I started it at 3 months PRIOR to conception. That would be worth reading... wouldn't it?

(also heard on Radio 4 today that the first Draft of "Portrait of the artist as a young man" was 1000 pages long. LUCKILY JOYCE BURNT IT. IMAGINE.)

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on US chocolate - a couple of years ago on a trip I tried several widely-recced brands, and, gah, so much not impressed. Mind, I only eat Canbury's because it's marginally acceptable. Swiss is my idea of good chocolate. (Not talking chocolatier products here, just blocks wrapped in silver and paper.)

So you may have to start buying Swiss chocolate instead.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Will pay for pictures.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I tried Lidl's chocolate yesterday, it was actually very nice - but it is german so that's not surprising i suppose!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

and Reeces is the only stuff i can stand, too!!

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Hmmm in turn. I used to think thaT Lidl was Aldi, here in Australia, but apparently they're competitors instead. Must pop in and look at the origins of their chocolates. Certainly the brand names are totally unknown, presumably all being made-for-sale-in-Aldi.

My all-time favorite chocolatier experience was a shop in Berlin that did superb chocolate flavoured with you name it - I came away with half a dozen pieces of inexpressibly expensive lavender- and chili-flavoured chocolate (two separate sorts, not mixed!) which added a wonderful touch of luxury to my hostel experience.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I understand there's been fungus and insect pest problems squeezing the supply of good chocolate, vs. an increase in demand. I've given up on nearly all the major brands I can get here on the Left Coast as brown-colored crayons at best. (We won't discuss what I think the bad stuff is. Forget bothering with cheap Halloween holiday chocolate.) I mean, any more I find the Lindt imports ..burnt and harsh, and only tolerable when my junkie self is running dangerously low. Perugina has been okay, if a bit on the oil/waxy side.
I do like Paul Newman's brand of chocolate, but it's become hard to find. The teeny expensive Fair Trade small-company types have been good on average.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Aldi's and Trader Joe's, in the US, carry some decent European chocolate, and so far I've found the real stuff in organic and fair-trade brands in Canada (surprisingly, the Zehr's organic house brand is not bad.) But US chocolate... Let me put it this way: the Hershey company, major employer of Hershey, PA, has begun getting its chocolate from China. Where they've been caught putting poisonous junk in dog food.

I've had the US version of Cadbury's, and it's not worth eating. My condolences!

[beckyblack]

As a low carber I view the whole Kraft/Cadbury thing with a lofty detatchment. However as an Englishwoman I shall grumble appropriately about "bloody colonials" and "our jobs" etc.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

eek - i really really hope they don't sod about with the formula...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

No, LIDL and ALDI hate each others guts. :) Germany has a chocolate museum in Cologne. Well worth a visit - if only to go to the "museum shop", which is AMAZING.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

*gets pattern for erasticatsuit*

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the museum tip! will remember, if we ever get back.