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erastes ([personal profile] erastes) wrote2006-09-26 04:59 pm
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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.

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[identity profile] haydenthorne.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouf. Sorry to hear about Mum. Hope she gets better soon.

Huzzah for Standish's final publication stages! :D

Goddamnit, those two chapters I have are eating away at my brain. I want to read the rest of it. Like, now.

[identity profile] aperfectscar.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear about your mother. My mom had pleurisy and pnemonia at the same time a few years back and it wasn't very fun.

Yay about Standish! I shall definitely be buying a copy.

Bios...

[identity profile] vashtan.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
.... 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 ...

[identity profile] rwday.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want Ambrose to be different than he is. He's a good character - he grows and changes in the course of the story, so he isn't strong? Big deal. Do we really have to play to the stereotype of what it means to be masculine? I think not.

I understand about your colleagues. I'm worried about what some of the more prudish people around me will think of Thaw - it's not horribly explicit, but it does have sex in it.

[identity profile] rosie-red73.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Standish before Christmas?! YAY! Try and time it for around the time when I have the baby, because I will SO need something good to read :D I just did another Amazon search to see if we could buy A Strong and Sudden Thaw yet, but it's not there. Sucky UK Amazon.

I have porridge brain too. I didn't get a rest AGAIN today. *smites stupid busy work and motherhood*

[identity profile] themostepotente.livejournal.com 2006-09-26 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Very sorry to hear about your mum, dear. Hope she feels better soonish.
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can i preorder?

[identity profile] jazzypom.livejournal.com 2006-10-01 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I do really want to read it - and actually have the dosh to pay for the privilege. Can I preorder on amazon?
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