Okay. Revisions are out the door (or out the email box, more accurately). Not too bad at all. I cut ten pages, and strengthened some scenes, and answered most, maybe even all, of my editor’s questions. *waves a little flag* Next up: finish the front material for this book and send it in by the end of the day. But before that, I’m going to get out of the house for a while, and *after* that I think I’m going to read a book. I have about a zillion to…
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Baltimore Fiddle Fair
Last night Ted and I went to a performance of the Baltimore Fiddle Fair (not the Baltimore in America). The best I can say about the first half of the performance is that I don’t often get to use the word “soporific” in casual conversation. It reminded me of a review my father got when he was quite young: “Murphy played the part quietly. So quietly, in fact, one occasionally glanced at him and wondered what he was doing on stage.” Ted, who is much kinder than I am, said…
book covers
jlassen is embroiled in a bit of a brew-ha-ha over the cover of an anthology coming out from Night Shade Books soon. They’ve listed all the authors on the back and featured five on the front cover. All five of the featured are men, though the anthology’s split down the middle with both male and female writers. I really don’t much want to get into a gender politics war here, but the point of a cover is to sell books. Me, if I were picking the five authors to put…
squee!
Oooh! Jeri Smith-Ready, author of the quite wonderful EYES OF CROW and the much-anticipated sequel VOICE OF CROW, sent me a copy of Harlequin’s single-title backlist catalogue for Q4, which is, I gather, what booksellers use to re-order books. She sent me copies because, to quote her, “COYOTE DREAMS is all over it.” OMG. She’s not kidding. There are 8 titles featured on the front page in full color, and they are written by people like Debbie Macomber and Carly Phillips and Diana Palmer and Heather Graham and, uh, CE…
Wow.
So I just got the Del Rey Internet Newsletter in my mailbox, and the big promo is for THE ELVES OF CINTRA, the latest in the Shannara series and part of the trilogy that I gather ties the Void books together with the Shannara books. There’s an interview in the newsletter, and in it, the King of the Silver River is mentioned. My God. I had not thought of that character in…years. I had forgotten how very much I *loved* that character until I read his name, and then it…