"Strong & Sudden Thaw" is released and a Sale for me!

[erastes]

1. rwday's wonderful m/m near future fantasy (although that doesn't adequately label it, it actually defies catagorization) "A Strong & Sudden Thaw" is released today. I'm going to (try and) do a review of it when I get my lovely (signed) copy from the author. I'll try and be objective, but as I was there when it was written I don't know how successful I will be. You know my tastes, or most of you do, so I hope you trust me when I say that you'll love it. Those of you who knew her when she was eumenides1 know how very talented she is, so won't need my paltry recommendation. I knew her before she was a novelist, you know.

2. A sale for me! I'm all bouncy about this one for more than the reason that I sold something. It was a "private call" from Alyson books for Pirates (hence why I was writing shagging pirates) and it was accepted. When I say "private" it probably still went out to 100's of people, so there was no guarantee of acceptance (I was invited to submit for Ultimate Gay Erotica 2006 after getting into UGE 2005, but wasn't accepted into UGE2006). So anyway. A Sale and so... SQUEE!!

Comments

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Yay you!! The UGE was an open call, though, and this one was private, so that's a BIG deal, a major career milestone for you. Well done!!

And thank you for the kind words!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You deserve every single one of them.

[julesjones]

Excellent!

(And you remind me that I have *still* not read my trib copy of UGE05. It arrived at a time when reading it was not an option, got put away, and now I keep meaning to get it out...)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I loved "Naked"!!! Shaving is a nice little kink of mine. *G*

My story has a few unforgiveable punctuation errors (not mine!!) which rather spoil it for me, but I would appreciate your thoughts if you get time to read it.

When that book came out I didn't know any of the names in the book, now I "know" about half of them. How things change!

[julesjones]

Mine had punctuation errors appear as well - I think they were artefacts of the translation between files formats. The other thing was that there was some editing for style, and it's the only time I've read the edited version of something and felt as if the edits had changed the "voice" to the point where it didn't sound like my writing. This isn't a criticism of the edits -- they were perfectly reasonable changes. But I do wonder if someone who reads that and then reads something else by me notices the difference.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Well done.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sir. *tips hat*

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo a sale!

Go UL (you know you'll always be UL to me, because I never did know your real name...).

And I'm going to now buy rwday's book at the Amazon store (wish I could get it signed, but...) -- I've had it on my wishlist for forever, since I don't do preorders!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

If you ask her nicely, I know she's arranging signed copies...

and thank you! I feel like I'm underlucius too.

*G*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yay, you! :-) Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!