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Conflikt was fun
Several of you who read my journal in whatever iteration already know this since you were actually there, but hey, Conflikt! That was fun. This was the first year that and I got to attend the whole convention, which was nice. We still pulled a commuter con, which was not quite so ideal; next year,…
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Book roundup post
I may have shiny nookity goodness on the immediate horizon, but this ain’t stopping me from buying print books when the occasion calls for it. And the new release of Alcestis by Katharine Beutner warranted it. This is a new retelling of the Greek myth about Alcestis–only in this version, when she winds up in…
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And now, a gratuitous icon post!
It occurred to me that if I was going to go around calling my LJ “Ordinary Day”, I should damn well have a default icon that reflects that. So for the benefit of those of you looking at this on my various LJ-flavored sites, check out the Alan and Sean loverliness. That shot is of…
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Nominations are now OPEN
Ladies and gentlemen, now is the time for you to submit your nominations for the following vital question: “What should Anna name her Nook?” I shall accept nominations for the next two weeks, so you have until February 16th to submit your suggestions! On that day I shall open an official poll for voting, and…
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Never mind Amazon vs. Macmillan, let's talk authors!
So the whole Amazon vs. Macmillan fracas has accomplished three things for me, as of last night: One, I have bought a nook. The cost of said nook as well as a loverly cover to put it in is roughly about the same as the amount of royalties I have now received for Faerie Blood,…
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Word catchup
Just to quickly cover the rest of the words I wrote on Mirror’s Gate while at Conflikt, this quicky post! A brief snippet from Aleksi’s POV is now in place, although I think I’m going to have to work on that in the second draft. That snippet may actually need to be an entire chapter.…
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I was going to do this anyway
But the Amazon vs. Macmillan brouhaha over the weekend has pretty much bumped up the priority on this: I just dropped my first round of shiny royalties on a Nook. The actual device and a pretty cover to put it in pretty much comes to roughly the amount of royalties I got, and that’s quite…
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Amazon vs. Macmillan: FIGHT!
I spent most of this weekend at the filk convention Conflikt, and that was great fun, but even as a bunch of geeky music was going on I kept an eye on the kerfuffle that exploded between Amazon and Macmillan. The issue at hand appears to be the pricing of ebooks, and as an ebook…
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There goes my amateur standing
Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to report that as of this evening, I have received royalties for my writing for the very first time in my writing career. Actual money for my actual words is now in my possession. It ain’t much, I grant you–I am, after all, a micropress ebook author–but it’s evidence…
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Bone Walker has a contender
It looks like Christopher and Elessir are suddenly going to have to fight with the male lead currently known as Aleksi for my word count love. Mirror’s Gate got its first official words tonight, since three chapters’ worth of outline is enough to get me started and this story really wants out of my brain.…
