Two reasons for me to squee
It’s been a bit of a trying month, with both shoulders now getting in on the freezing act, scarcely any range of motion left in the left hand one, and permanent tiredness due to not being able to sleep. However, some things somehow make up for it all and today I’m feeling very very lucky 🙂
and Jayne at Dear Author has picked the I Do anthology in her list of top Romances of 2009
I feel like a bit of a waste of space at the moment – I can’t even do my own hair – so this makes me feel that at least I’ve managed to do something good this year. Thank you so much, Sarah! Thank you Jayne 🙂 Big virtual bunches of flowers all around 🙂
December 17th, 2009 in
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Sorry about the shoulders, it's a trial at the best, but how exciting to have False Colours AND Blessed Isle be picked in such a prestigious list! Congratulations and goodies! Hopefully you can get some therapy for the shoulders to loosen them up a bit (I only have one bad one at the moment, I fell — but BOTH knees have gone sour)…
Othersise, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
Cheers,
Evelyn
LOL! Thanks Evelyn 🙂 Yes, apart from the pain, everything is going pretty well at the moment, with another book due out in June and some shorter stuff in between. I have a physiotherapist's appointment after Christmas for the shoulder, so hopefully by that point it will be so fully frozen it isn't painful any more, and I can then concentrate on exercises to loosen it up again.
Alex: Congratulations on False Colors and Blessed Isle. I haven't had the pleasure of reading Blessed Isle, yet, but you know my thoughts on False Colors. Also, sympathies from a fellow 'handicap' regarding the shoulders. As you know I'm still learniing to walk again from a broken hip in June.
Just posted a review of "Queer cowboys" on 'Other Authors'. I was reminded of your experience with Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition when I was writing it–i.e. not as promising as the title. Drop into my blog page sometime.
Your Canadian friend
Thanks, Gerry! I'm very fond of Blessed Isle because, despite a high body count, it's probably the least angsty thing I've ever written. It's nice to have something cheerful every now and again!
I think I didn't know about the hip, or I would have had more sympathy. That sounds awful! Are you seeing any improvements by now? I keep feeling that I shouldn't talk about the shoulders but, aside from the fact that they make me slower to respond to emails and less positive over all (which people deserve to know about so they know I'm not deliberately slighting them), it's actually quite fascinating. Well, it's fascinating to me anyway! It's probably very boring for everyone else.
I read your review of "Queer Cowboys", and I'm uneasy – in the same way as I am with Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition – that he's reading modern concepts of homosexuality onto texts that were designed to be read with a concept of passionate friendship in mind. From the sound of it, he's being incautious. We've only got to look at buddy shows like Bodie and Doyle of the Professionals (or Kirk and Spock, or Holmes and Watson, or Frodo and Sam) to see that the concept of a male pair being everything to each other coexists fine with the members of those pairs being heterosexual. As long as you devalue women and feel that a 'real man' can't possibly have any meaningful relationship with a woman because that would necessarily make him 'soft', then the ideal manly man, the most heterosexual man of all, is paradoxically going to be the kind of man who gets his sex at a whorehouse and has his most meaningful relationships with other men. Unfortunately, wanting sex with women doesn't automatically make men prepared to like, respect or live with them.