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[erastes]

Woo Hoo! Another Brownie Point for www.writely.com!

You can post to Livejournal on it! Yay! Yes, I know I can do that via email too, but the formatting is impossible to cope with.

Nothing much new with me, RL proving icky, mother has pleurisy, so I have to take her for an x-ray in the morning.

Standish: I heard from the publishers and we are on the downward slope now - the outside editors have now been dispensed with and final decisions will be made by the publisher (in conjunction with me, I hope, don't want her unilaterally to decide that Ambrose must STRIDE about Scratching Himself and roaring at his sisters - I'm guessing that's not allowed....?)

Also got to invent the dedication page, acknowledgements, back cover blurb and a Bio (death to all Bios) which is all very exciting. They say "there's a lot to do, but it will move quickly from now on"

So I still don't know how long it will be, but I'm hoping publication before Christmas! Yay! Buy a copy for your granny for her stocking, you know it'll do her good! I have work colleagues who want to buy it. This Worries Me. a LOT. *checks contract* does "Bringing the firm into disrepute" consist of a sacking offence? Hmmm. Yes. it appears it does. eek!

I'm sure there's more stuff to relate but as my brain feels like porridge right now, I can't think of a single thing to relate.

Comments

Bios...

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

.... where's the problem with the bios? Do you have one that you've already used and you could change?

I always try to be a little quirky there, and mix informaion, self-pimping and a quirky fact about me. Some is puer fiction (I'm not a goth, but needed a gothy-sounding bio for a goth publication that published my poem (wich wasn't very good, but goths like suffering, I guess). It was hilarious ...

Re: Bios...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Just hate 'em. No-one really would be interested in anything written by me, I'm dull to the nth degree. They are all pure fiction, but it's hard to not be too over the top. I have loads of them, variations on themes. But I've done one, however stupid it is...

Re: Bios...

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

... well, as a reader, I appreciate a little self-irony in a writer's bio. :)

And - you made me curious...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bio: Erastes lives in Norfolk, UK. If he has any ambition it is to bring homosexual historical romance more into the mainstream. He's had numerous short stories published by Alyson Books, Cleis Press and Starbooks to name a few. He believes in the Great Dark Man and bases his dodgy morality on R.A.Heinlein's Notebooks of Lazarus Long. His website and blog can be found at www.erastes.com

*g*

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I like thed odgy morality bit. :)

See, didn't hurt too bad, now, did it? :)