Originally posted on wiscon: Email from Vonda N. McIntyre: “Hi everybody, Ursula K. Le Guin’s 80th birthday is on 21 October 2009 and I’m going to post a Happy Birthday Ursula message on my website and my blogs that day, and I think I have some other folks talked into doing the same. I just…
Two lots of coolness, in fact 🙂 First of all, I’ve just come back from the bi-monthly RNA lunch where 12 romantic novelists living around Cambridge get together in a not very local to me pub, to eat and talk about the romance publishing world. I’ve been suffering with very sore shoulders for about three…
Hee! I have tickets to see the Morris movie (aka “Morris, a life with bells on”) tomorrow! Andrew’s side, Coton Morris Men, have been asked to dance outside the cinema before the film is shown, and I’m a tiny bit piqued that Elriot wasn’t asked to come and dance too. However, we will be there…
I’ve had my head down today working on the novel formerly known as “Boys of Summer”, now re-christened “Shining in the Sun”. And lo! It is finally finished at 77K 😀 It feels like it’s taken forever, but that’s partially because I broke off to edit False Colors and to write “Blessed Isle” in the…
I’m guessing that most people who read my LJ are familiar with the Speak Its Name review site for m/m historical fiction? It’s an excellent review site where the reviewers actually know about history and care about literary quality and are not afraid to give a bad review if they think one is merited. What…
I’ve had a little hiatus recently where I only had one book out – False Colors. But today is the day for Captain’s Surrender to relaunch in its spiffy new ebook version from Samhain. The one with the fabulous cover 🙂 In addition to the new cover, it’s been extensively edited by Anne Scott, who…
So, apparently, not sleeping well since Friday leads to lowered productivity. Who’d have thought it? I tried to get myself to work today by eating kettle chips and a chocolate bar, but that just made me feel literally sick and tired instead of just tired. Giving up and going to bed sounds like the only…
Two comic gems I found on my LJ friends’ list: Passed along from dubious_virtue, a link to Jimhines reading the slush pile in the style of Dr.Seuss Here’s a tale from D & D! I do not want your D & D. I do not like your elf PC. I can not stand your purple…
In reaction to the business with the Lambda Literary Awards, Elisa Rolle has started the process of setting up a separate award (tentatively christened the Rainbow Award) which will be open to all writers regardless of gender or orientation, and judged by a panel of volunteers from amongst the readers of m/m and other GBTL…
Why is writing the first draft hard? Because it’s like trying to spin mist. You know the perfect book is in here somewhere. You sometimes have glimpses of it, but it’s like a Platonic Ideal – you can never achieve it in real life. Plus, the book you want to write is nebulous. Every sentence,…
