Nice, Victor! Good for you (And for them, and the rest of us, too).

Thanks. I actually came across the review by accident, but it looks like it was just posted recently. Funny thing is, I never sent out review copies. There were some people from "Poetic Diversity" at the house reading I did in Mar Vista last January, and I sold whole bunch of books there, so that must be where they got it. (I know some of the other reviewers, but not these two. Huh.)

That's shiny, Victor, and I see what you mean about both reviews.

I have no opinion about the usages of "anymore" and "parky".

I think his Hampton should always be at a rakish and jaunty angle, and that's how I will always picture it...

Heh. I always like the general order that told us we had to "salute all officers and standards not cased." I'm all for saluting "uncased" officers, anyday. Especially, if they start by saluting me.

Oops.

have just written another 3600 words of new novel that makes nearly ten thousand words and nearly fifty pages in three days for god's sake someone send help

Sends tea and bon-bon bearing monkeys.

Good job, Deb!

Whoot! deb! I have got to ask, because I've never written a novel, how many words in a decent length one?

have just written another 3600 words of new novel that makes nearly ten thousand words and nearly fifty pages in three days for god's sake someone send help

No such thing as good length, Sail. Depends entirely on the market, the genre and the writer. Minotaur likes the Ballads books to be between 70K and 80K.

If I keep writing at this rate - and I think that may be what's happening, since I'm basically channeling this sucker - I'll be done in a month.

Depends entirely on the market, the genre and the writer.

I guess I should have been more specific. I was thinking of 250 pages as "decent." So, 70-80K sounds about right.