Plei, let me know when you've read WMGGW, or if you need the current version

I need the current version.

Again with incredibly discerning, and crikey, Plei, you just paid me a huge compliment.

Because we were very different that way. I've always been the complete sensualist and I notice touch, and taste, and absorb where I am; it's a meld.

He'd done so many tours, so many bands, so many sessions, so many cities and hotels and hospital rooms, he never gave much of a damn about the sensual world. That was all me.

So if that's all the way in the back in these, then that's another verification that I'm writing him, not me.

I need the current version.

Check your email in about two minutes.

Honestly, I have a soft spot for the British voice, but that is not the accomplishment.

Got my first rejection. The editor asked if I wouldn't be willing to write something different, made a suggestion, and said he'd love to see a proposal based on that suggestion. Another editor ran into my agent and said that he'd call her this week about that "book with the great title."

I'm encouraged, despite the rejection. It seems like even though he didn't want to buy this work, he likes my writing enough to want to see more of it. Like it was just the subject, not my style.

That's exactly what it sounds like, Allyson. And the thing is, no editor wants a one-book author. So if he likes your style enough to suggest you try your hand at something else, he likes your writing and recognizes your talent. Which is a very nice thing.

What Amy said. That's exactly it.

Deep into editing for a friend today - fourth book in her series, due at her editor's tonight, all of her WIP readers bounced and she's stuck and freaking.

Fantasy. So not my genre. Thanks be, she's a good writer - it makes the genre bearable for me.

90K words. I've just read the first 14K. I may get some work of my own done today, but I'm beginning to doubt it. Still, this is needed, and she's a very good friend.

I'm trying to think of a "strike" drabble to get in under the wire, and coming up with nothing.

I think it's funny that we didn't drabble it much, but we talked about striking (hitting, violence, throwing) a lot last week.

All I managed was a sonnet...

Oh, that's *all* Fuck you, then. It totally sends me to a "Viva la Huelga" place, but I don't really have an image. Just stupid Stepmonster asking "Why is it wrong to cross a picket line?" I should have told her it makes your butt look big.