Sharon Lee says incredibly correct things about The Long Tail. Go read it, then come back and read this. I’ll wait. Did you read it? Okay. We’ll go on, then. The Long Tail and the 1000 True Fans idea are things which I, as a writer, obviously wish to embrace and make use of. I’m especially fond of the *idea* of the 1000 True Fans, where “True Fan” is defined as “someone who will go out of the way to buy every. single. thing. that an artist produces”. For *my*…
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A Trilogy In Three Months
I had this insane idea this morning that it would be fun to write a trilogy in three months. It’s not actually possible, as I would need a good six hours of writing time daily, and I’m doing well to get two, but for a bright shining moment I thought “Wouldn’t it be neat to get that far ahead?” (As it is I’m already trying to figure out if it’s humanly possible to revise ANGLES and write another YA book while my mother-in-law, whose stated interest while in Dublin is…
RatF Revisions
I’ve gotten started on the RIGHT ANGLES TO FAERYLAND revisions this week. Bryant did wonders with converting the Word-built HTML into something I could actually work with, but there are still some format issues, so I’ve been going through, reading the manuscript and correcting the formatting. It’s pretty fascinating, reading something I wrote in 2002 and haven’t looked at since 2004ish. The comment I kept getting about it when we sent it around all those years ago was it was structurally very nice, but needed characterization work. Most of a…
Shipping Sale!
I have Far Too Many trade paperback (big paperbacks as opposed to the small ones) copies of HOUSE OF CARDS (24 copies) and HANDS OF FLAME (17 copies), the second two books in the Negotiator Trilogy. If you would like to pay shipping and get signed copies of one or the other or both of those two books, please comment on this entry. It will be $7 for one book or $14 for two. Respond and I’ll give you the Paypal information. I have no copies at all of the…
I love you people.
That’s all. You’re just all pretty much awesome, all the writers and readers and old friends and new friends and basically all of you. You’re awesome. Carry that forth today, by gum. thinks to do, she said prosaically, after a momentary gush brought on by nothing in particular: – wash the diaper wraps – finish cleaning the kitchen (not in that order) – work on revision letter – answer at least one of fred’s emails – work on… » i’ll be damned, i got nothin’ pending today.