Mommmm, Deb's teasing us!
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Amy - Aug 26, 2005 6:33:47 pm PDT #3756 of 10001
Because books.
Susan W. - Aug 26, 2005 6:34:04 pm PDT #3757 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So cool, Deb!
Just got an email from Jo Beverley confirming we're all on for breakfast.
Amy - Aug 26, 2005 6:35:24 pm PDT #3758 of 10001
Because books.
Just got an email from Jo Beverley confirming we're all on for breakfast.
Is this just the three of you? 'Cause, damn, that would be nice. And where are you going? Details, woman!
deborah grabien - Aug 26, 2005 6:36:07 pm PDT #3759 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan's gonna partay!
Susan W. - Aug 26, 2005 6:46:37 pm PDT #3760 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
They're going to be at CascadiaCon, which is mostly a fantasy convention, since both are kind of moving into historical paranormals, MJP especially. JB mentioned in her newsletter that if anyone was going to be there, let her know and she'd try to meet them. So I emailed her and said hi, you may know my name from the Beau Monde list, can't make the conference itself, but if you have any spare time outside of it, I'd love to meet you. And it went from there.
I'm already feeling tongue-tied over a week in advance. One of my CPs and I have been drafting query letters together, and the target market phrase we came up with for me was, "My work should appeal to fans of the character-driven romantic adventures of Jo Beverley and Mary Jo Putney, along with women who enjoy the military fiction of Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell." And I'm having breakfast with half those people! 2/3 of the living ones! Eek!
Nutty - Aug 27, 2005 1:20:22 pm PDT #3761 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Susan, if it makes you feel any better, I was much less intimidated by Connie Willis once I saw her in person, because she is the literary embodiment of Julia Child [*], and who can be intimidated by Julia Child?
[* Gracious, aggressively intelligent, ready and willing to tell the only limerick she knew, which was about balls.]
erika, if it makes you feel any cooler, Peter Jennings was a two0finger typist to the end of his days, so he always had to look at the keyboard. Not to imply that looking at the keyboard is fatal; he is just the most famous two-finger keyboardist I know of, and is only dead by coincidence.
erikaj - Aug 27, 2005 1:45:57 pm PDT #3762 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, it did not hold him back very much at all, so I guess I'm not gonna worry about it. Although the death connection has made me picture a detective gazing over my lifeless form, being all "Lost art, the hunt-and-peck."
SailAweigh - Aug 27, 2005 1:57:12 pm PDT #3763 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erika, you need to write that! Maybe have Munch-n-Kay find a pretty blonde in a hotel like that. With a whiskey sour to the right and a .38 on the left, but it's not what killed her.
erikaj - Aug 27, 2005 5:28:23 pm PDT #3764 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Heh. I think the crime is affecting me, because this afternoon I saw on Food Network some show with "Nourish" in the title and I read it as "noirish" and I thought...never noticed much *cuisine* in those.
SailAweigh - Aug 27, 2005 5:34:35 pm PDT #3765 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
never noticed much *cuisine* in those.
Yeah, I was real disappointed when I first watched the Naked Chef. Not what I was expecting at all. No guns, no hardboiled blondes, not even a dead naked chef! Just some goofy Brit, cooking. What a tease.