If there are any Judith Tarr fans in the house, it looks like she could use some help. [link]
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Calli - May 04, 2016 9:44:07 am PDT #23915 of 28286
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
hippocampus - May 04, 2016 11:47:55 am PDT #23916 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Because this belongs in literary: Way to go Gud!
t- I think you betaed at least one I haven't released yet (circus-adjacent), plus the wasps. And yah. All the questions... I've gotten really good at not answering those. See: R/fantasy yesterday.
sj - May 05, 2016 5:20:53 am PDT #23917 of 28286
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I grabbed my copy of Cog, Gud!
Sox, is the novella part of the Bone Universe or is it a separate thing? Because I could possibly find more time to read the novella first.
EpicTangent - May 05, 2016 12:25:16 pm PDT #23918 of 28286
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Got my e-copy of Cog, Gud, and added it to my "currently reading" section on Goodreads (which won't be actually accurate until my Kindle is back in range of my Wi-Fi, but still, boosting the signal!)
Beverly - May 05, 2016 12:31:25 pm PDT #23919 of 28286
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Ordered a bound copy of Cog, Gud. And one of the novella, Fran, to keep Updraft company until Cloudbound is released.
I don't own a Kindle (I probably will, eventually), and truthfully, I'd rather have a book on my shelf, so that's what I buy. And will probably continue to, even if the day comes when most of my reading is done on a device.
Consuela - May 05, 2016 7:10:28 pm PDT #23920 of 28286
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I grabbed it on Kindle, Gud! Looking forward to it.
hippocampus - May 06, 2016 8:57:10 am PDT #23921 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
SJ the novella is gemworld. There will be a set of linked short stories - another is up at BCS.
Thank you so much Beverly. I love buffista bookshelf.
I just turned in page proofs on CLOUDBOUND. I go boom now.
Burrell - May 06, 2016 9:35:03 am PDT #23922 of 28286
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Woot, Sox!
Beverly - May 06, 2016 11:29:48 am PDT #23923 of 28286
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Welcome. I'm a veteran of haunting bricks and mortar bookstores: facing Buffista books out on the shelves, talking enthusiastically to a friend about a Buffista book where we'll be overheard by browsers, if a book isn't apparent, asking about it in person--"We can have it sent from another store." and by phone--"No thank you, birthday party this afternoon and it was to be a gift (stock the book, dummy)" etc., etc., after pre-ordering multiple copies on Amazon to get numbers up, planning Christmas and birthday and other occasion gifts of books.
The Kindle has sort of obsoleted those skills. I need to learn new ones. And also, I R dum--what is BCS?
hippocampus - May 06, 2016 4:22:51 pm PDT #23924 of 28286
not your mom's socks.
Welcome. I'm a veteran of haunting bricks and mortar bookstores: facing Buffista books out on the shelves, talking enthusiastically to a friend about a Buffista book where we'll be overheard by browsers, if a book isn't apparent, asking about it in person--"We can have it sent from another store." and by phone--"No thank you, birthday party this afternoon and it was to be a gift (stock the book, dummy)" etc., etc., after pre-ordering multiple copies on Amazon to get numbers up, planning Christmas and birthday and other occasion gifts of books.
You are a book fairy godmother.
kindle has hanged all that.
Not entirely - bookstores are still hugely important, ditto for reviews online. And even more so, word of mouth. It's hard for a book to stay afloat without it.
BCS ?
An online SFF magazine called beneath ceaseless skies - Topaz is free there, along with many other excellent short stories.