Weekend winding down
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catherineldfIt's been a pleasant one. I made it to the Magers & Quinn reading on Friday night to cheer on Will and Dave and Alan and Kelly (who I don't actually know, just for some variety), all of whom gave a fine reading. As a bonus, I got to spend some time with dewey921, haddayr and badger2305, which was delightful as always. Saturday morning, Will, Alice, Baby Liam and Victor came by for brunch. There was much lively discussion about teaching, writing, reading, fandom, art, kitties and babies. It turns out that our lovely new cats are excellent with at least nonmobile infants - lots of sniffing and purring and head bumping, which Baby Liam seemed okay with. Next up, perhaps we'll try toddlers, at which point I suspect they'll make themselves scarce.
Saturday afternoon we were off to True Colors for the next round of readings. This, too, was quite good. We hadn't heard C.M. Harris before and found that we enjoyed both her reading from The Children of Mother Glory and meeting her and her partner. As a sidebar, I was quite impressed that she'd gone out and read Nell and Anne's books before the reading so she could ask them questions and comment. It seemed an excellent to get off on the right foot, particularly if you're reading with authors you don't know personally or professionally.As for the rest of the reading, I've read with both Nell and Anne before and they were terrific as always. From there, it was off to a largish group dinner, which was also quite enjoyable.
Then we dragged mr_bad_example back to our house and forced him to play with the kitties while plying him with herb tea and a truffle or two, because we're like that.
Today has been all about the puttering instead of about the writing so we need to correct that. On the docket: I'm going back through the 45k words to date of Silver Moon and adding the things I've thought about as I've gone along. Then I need to finish overhauling a draft of a new romance short story so I can get that submitted this week. I have thus far been thinking about Moon as a 90,000 word novel but had a brief conversation with Nell and Ruta last night that's making me think that perhaps 80k or so might be a better length for a marketable trade paperback. I'll be cogitating on that as I go forward.
And I'm on the tail end of this, but thought I'd mention it. Fun and often right-on romance blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is co-sponsoring a 50% off deal on ebooks out at AllRomanceEbooks.com this weekend as a response to Amazon.com's latest adventure in "We're a monopoly so we don't care what you think" Did we really think they were going to stop with last year's delisting of the LGBT and erotica titles? AllRomanceRbooks is an indie ebook storefront and the more competition Amazon has, the less crap Bezos and company will pull. Just saying.
Go here for the coupon and one take on the Macmillan/Amazon.com conflict and here to see what's for sale. Among many other titles, my books Night's Kiss, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing and Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades are all out there, as are Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories, So Fey: Queer Faery FIction, Like a God's Kiss: Erotic Mythological Tales and Eternally Noir, all of which include my stories.
Saturday afternoon we were off to True Colors for the next round of readings. This, too, was quite good. We hadn't heard C.M. Harris before and found that we enjoyed both her reading from The Children of Mother Glory and meeting her and her partner. As a sidebar, I was quite impressed that she'd gone out and read Nell and Anne's books before the reading so she could ask them questions and comment. It seemed an excellent to get off on the right foot, particularly if you're reading with authors you don't know personally or professionally.As for the rest of the reading, I've read with both Nell and Anne before and they were terrific as always. From there, it was off to a largish group dinner, which was also quite enjoyable.
Then we dragged mr_bad_example back to our house and forced him to play with the kitties while plying him with herb tea and a truffle or two, because we're like that.
Today has been all about the puttering instead of about the writing so we need to correct that. On the docket: I'm going back through the 45k words to date of Silver Moon and adding the things I've thought about as I've gone along. Then I need to finish overhauling a draft of a new romance short story so I can get that submitted this week. I have thus far been thinking about Moon as a 90,000 word novel but had a brief conversation with Nell and Ruta last night that's making me think that perhaps 80k or so might be a better length for a marketable trade paperback. I'll be cogitating on that as I go forward.
And I'm on the tail end of this, but thought I'd mention it. Fun and often right-on romance blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is co-sponsoring a 50% off deal on ebooks out at AllRomanceEbooks.com this weekend as a response to Amazon.com's latest adventure in "We're a monopoly so we don't care what you think" Did we really think they were going to stop with last year's delisting of the LGBT and erotica titles? AllRomanceRbooks is an indie ebook storefront and the more competition Amazon has, the less crap Bezos and company will pull. Just saying.
Go here for the coupon and one take on the Macmillan/Amazon.com conflict and here to see what's for sale. Among many other titles, my books Night's Kiss, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing and Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades are all out there, as are Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories, So Fey: Queer Faery FIction, Like a God's Kiss: Erotic Mythological Tales and Eternally Noir, all of which include my stories.
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Date: 2010-01-31 11:02 pm (UTC)Re: true Colors
Date: 2010-02-01 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-31 11:36 pm (UTC)There's a brand new and quite nice review of Time Well Bent on Rainbow Reviews, if anyone wants to check it out before taking advantage of the sale.
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:32 pm (UTC)Thanks for the head's up and hope it picks up sales!