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Awesome little Star Wars fan film
pointed me at this last night, and I am obliged by two and a half years of playing Solo on Star Wars MUSH to share this with you all. <3 The creator did an awesome job, and apparently even won a fan film contest with it! Particular props for the voice work for Han channeling…
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Book Log #61: Disturbed By Her Song, by Tanith Lee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was given Disturbed by Her Song as a review copy from Lethe Press, and I’ve got to say, this was one of the most unusual things I’ve read in a while. It’s a collection of short stories written by Tanith Lee, but under the conceit that two of…
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Book Log #60: The Mummy Case, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once you get into Book 3 of the Amelia Peabody series, The Mummy Case, you start picking up steam for the long haul of the bulk of all these books. Hands down, the best aspect of it is that Amelia and Emerson’s young son Ramses joins them for the…
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Last round (of B&N freebies)
Okay, this should be the last round of freebie ebooks from B&N, I think. They’re throwing out the big guns for this last drop! The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Arthur Conan Doyle The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (note: this version is abridged) The Iliad, by Homer The Odyssey, by Homer…
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Other formats available for Lament of the Dove beta readers
very kindly created an EPUB format file for me today out of the fourth draft manuscript, and I completely forgot to mention that made a PRC file for me at one point. Many thanks go out to both of these nice folks for this assistance! And, either file should then be convertible in Calibre or…
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LJ->DW commenting shift
FYI, all: if I know you have an active journal over on Dreamwidth, and I know you’re clearly crossposting over to here, I’ll be shifting commenting traffic there unless you have LJ content that isn’t actually on Dreamwidth. In which case you’ll still get my comment traffic on LJ. (My beloved , I’m looking at…
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More on the revise and resubmit
Ha, glancing back at the big revise and resubmit post, I realized I actually didn’t say what the editor’s big issue with the story structure was. Oops. Clearly, the post needed an edit pass. 😉 Anyway, I’d said that the structure of the The Dove, the Rook, and the Hawk is supposed to be “one…
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Call for beta read on current Lament draft
OKAY! Given my last post, I am now doing an in-depth review of the editorial feedback from Carina Press, and beginning to organize notes for a plan of attack on how to address the various recommendations. However, given that this will be Lament‘s fifth draft (possibly sixth, if I do a separate word count reduction…
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Carina says ‘revise and resubmit’ Lament of the Dove!
I finally heard back from Carina Press today about my submission of Lament of the Dove to them, and I gotta say, folks, this is hands down the best not-an-acceptance response I’ve had to a story to date. One of Carina’s editors sent me a very long and detailed feedback letter not only calling out…
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Random Publicity Week
Author Darcy Pattison had a lovely idea, or so I learned on the Twitternets: Random Publicity Week, encouraging all of us to take the time to do that Goodreads or Amazon or B&N review to support books by our friends and fellow authors. You know how this works: you’ve been swearing up and down you’d…
