a weird writer thing

So I have no problem being in the same room with someone who is reading one of my books. You know, a properly bound book and all that. If they laugh I want to know what bit they’re laughing at, but that’s no big thing. However. I. Cannot. Stand. To be in a room where someone is reading an actual manuscript. My parents are down to visit and to proof TQB. They’re downstairs reading it. I don’t even like being in the *house*! I want to run away! Blee! Blee!…

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:)

I have just received the following email from , who was proofing THE QUEEN’S BASTARD for me: TBQ I’m not worthy…..I’m not worthy I’m gobsmacked. Yay! *\o/*

oh, wow, hot *damn*

Thanks to my very clever husband and my very clever friend , I have just come up with something *brilliant* for the end of this book. I don’t even know if I’ll get to *use* all of this (oh yes I will because it makes such good doom) but *damn* that’s sexy. *Damn* that’s sexy!

Great!

I left the house today to work at a cafe in pen and paper. Transcription has netted me around 2K words (far more than I wrote) with another couple pages still to transcribe. I may do this again tomorrow. I was not, for the record, asking about whether people would follow the blog because I anticipate some kind of hideous, horrible thing happening because LJ has been bought. I don’t imagine much will change at all, and can at least wish that if things do change they will perhaps change…

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Yes

Looks like Livejournal is being sold. I’ll be interested to watch how this develops, because the solitary reason I use LJ is because despite its flaws (and there are many), is that it’s one-stop-shopping for comments. I used to use Moveable Type on my own website (and *God* how I miss the ability to, you know, design my own look & feel), but I was collecting 1. a lot of comment spam, and 2. comments in 3 different locations, not all of which were emailed to me. At the risk…

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