Ted and I went into Cork today, mostly to see “Children of Men”, which left us both kind of staggering. It’s really very good, but it’s *extremely* emotionally intense and *really* doesn’t let up. I’m not entirely sure I’d have gone to see it if I’d known how relentless it was, but it was well worth watching. We hit Other Realms after that and picked up comic books, and staggered home to eat morally inferior food and goof around on the computer all night. We are *nearly* finished with season…
gaming
There’s this article on BBC about women being insufficiently involved in the gaming industry. It’s got a comments section which won’t let me actually post a comment, so I’m posting here what I tried to write there, because apparently I’m sufficiently annoyed by the whole thing to do so. I find it interesting that this article focuses entirely on console games. My own experiences as a gamer began with Dungeons & Dragons as the only girl in the group at age 8, and even then I experienced none of the…
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Having leapt out of bed at the crack of 8:30 to try to get the dog outside before she threw up (I almost succeeded), I am now fiercely sleepy. All that adreneline rush, or something. :) Comment from my editor on the new look for PHOENIX is that while everybody in-house loved the look of the first two, numbers would indicate that readers didn’t necessarily respond similarly, so they’re hoping the new look will drive more sales. Everybody pretty much agrees that what did Bombshell in was an uncertainty of…
me & my big mouth :)
Just got the PHOENIX cover. It’s not … *bad*. It really isn’t. It’s just a bit shocking after the other two. It doesn’t match. It *does* look like standard-fare Bombshell covers, and mostly what it says to me is the line’s been cancelled so they opted not to put the time, effort and cash into these covers. It makes me want to see if I can sell the other books in the series somewhere else, and get the *next* trilogy to have matching covers…
art fact sheet :)
Working under the “easier to get forgiveness than permission” mindset combined with an, “It’s probably okay,” from the EA, I’m posting the AFS for HEART OF STONE. Quickly, my beauties! Read, before I have to take it down or flock it! :) (Also, the EA just told me this was the best AFS he’d ever seen. My, how cheerful I am!) I don’t believe this contains any spoilers or much in the way of information that you wouldn’t get from reading the back of the book, more or less, but…