It was an interesting RWA meeting last night. We had a man from a vanity press called KiwEpublishing come talk to us, only of course he didn’t call it a vanity press. Print on demand publisher: all this can be yours for only $1295. Two of us, Jackie Ivie and I, had copies of our books with us, and the guy assumed they were POD, which… …which, actually, you wouldn’t believe how many people assume. “Is it coming out from a major publisher?” is the nicest way that I’ve been…
a books meme
A books meme: 1) The number of books I’ve owned: I’d say around 3000 at the high point. Now? 7 or 800. We’ve culled a *lot*. 2) The last book I bought: …I honestly don’t know. We were given a macadamia nut cookbook for free when we bought macadamias in Hawaii, but I don’t think that counts. 3) The last book I read: URBAN SHAMAN, by C.E. Murphy. Really. 4) Five books that mean a lot to me: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery THE DARK IS RISING (sequence,…
*laugh*!
*laughs out loud* There’s a bit in Banshee Cries where Jo comments there’s not nearly enough half-naked Wesley Snipes in the Blade movies. My editor wrote, “True!” in the margins. She’s so cool. :) …well. That is in fact a *very* light copyedit/revision. There are about four paragraphs where I should change things, punch ’em up a little, or explain a bit more, and it’ll essentially be done. YAY! I might even get that done tonight, although I have an RWA meeting, so maybe not. Still, it won’t take too…
or not
Dentist appointment cancelled, unfortunately after I’d left to go to it, so I ended up going on a nice 3.5 mile walk for no reason. Oh well. Called Harlequin but didn’t get ahold of the lady I was trying to talk to, which didn’t surprise me. Had lunch. Am feeling overwhelmed, so I’m trying to be Very Very Focused on one thing at a time. And that one thing is edits on Banshee Cries, so now I’m going to go do that. miles to Rauros Falls: 236.5
whew.
All right. The COYOTE DREAMS proposal went out this morning. I have just completed the revisions Jenn asked for on HEART OF STONE. I would print it out, but I have no envelope and it seems foolish to print it and let it sit around collecting cat hair until I get one. I have approximately nine hundred envelopes to send out, so I will get a big enough envelope for the ms, and another big enough one for the WM covers, and then I will send all nine hundred and…