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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…
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General news and also, word count
I’ve finally gotten my next round of royalties for Faerie Blood and Defiance, and I’m not terribly surprised that they are tiny. To all of you out there who have bought copies of these works this year, though, as always, I thank you for your support! Along with the royalties, though, I have also gotten…
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Book Log #59: The Curse of the Pharoahs, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars After the awesomeness that is Crocodile on the Sandbank, the mighty opening round of the Amelia Peabody series, a reader might wonder how Elizabeth Peters could possibly have packed more awesome into these books. The answer: by the introduction of Amelia and Emerson’s son, the “catastrophically precocious” Walter Peabody…
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One more book update
I’m not sure yet if this is the last round of B&N freebies; the promotion was supposed to run up through the 14th, so I’m thinking there’ll be at least one more round before they’re done. This one I’m particularly happy about though since it includes King Solomon’s Mines, a novel that’s specifically called out…
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Print vs. digital, addendum
Two different people have brought up to me in the comments on my last post a point which I wished to call out and separately address. To wit, that part of the question of print vs. digital is a question of privilege. It absolutely is, I agree. That I am able to own not one,…
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The print vs. digital divide
Y’all want to know the fastest way to get an epubbed author’s blood pressure spiking? Refer to printed books as “real” books. This got shoved into the front of my brain yesterday when one of my favorite local bookstores linked off to an opinion article written by a twenty-something who was stridently against electronic readers–to…
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Book update!
I came to the decision that since I’d violated my New Books Hiatus by buying that antho (although I still excuse myself for that on the grounds of Special Circumstances, and also, supporting ), I am therefore delaying buying new books at least for a few more days even though the Hiatus is technically over!…
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LJ’s latest PrivacyFail
I’ve seen a lot of news going around about this, but for those of you who haven’t, LJ has just turned on new functionality to crosspost to Facebook and Twitter. On the face of it this seems fine. I crosspost regularly, as y’all probably know; all my posts these days originate from my WordPress blogs,…
