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.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
hippocampus - May 06, 2016 8:57:10 am PDT #23921 of 28558
not your mom's socks.
Burrell - May 06, 2016 9:35:03 am PDT #23922 of 28558
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 28558
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 28558
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.
Pix - May 07, 2016 5:29:38 am PDT #23925 of 28558
The status is NOT quo.
Yay Sox! Can't wait to read it!
I also bought Gud's book on my kindle and will be reading it this weekend. Buffista authors are indeed the best.
erikaj - May 07, 2016 3:45:31 pm PDT #23926 of 28558
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
There are similar rumblings from time to time in Crime Fiction, that women, in particular(esp. Sara Paretsky, whom I love, and who sells many books regardless) get too political. But it's part of the tradition of crime fiction, unless you just want characters doing blow off a taut stripper's ass, in every story. But I still think it's ridiculous that chest-beating Manly Men, allegedly aware of the power of language, call themselves any "Puppies". Manly has gotten sad since Dashiell Hammett I guess. I haven't seen an "acronym problem" that major since Zadie Smith made up a terrorist group named "KEVIN"
Burrell - May 07, 2016 4:05:52 pm PDT #23927 of 28558
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But I still think it's ridiculous that chest-beating Manly Men, allegedly aware of the power of language, call themselves any "Puppies".
IKR I think it's supposed to represent some sort of self-awareness, but it just comes across as Really?!
Dana - May 07, 2016 4:37:33 pm PDT #23928 of 28558
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Clearly, we are just humorless females who don't get the hilarity.
Beverly - May 07, 2016 4:39:28 pm PDT #23929 of 28558
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Found Topaz, Sox. Should I read it before Jewel, or does it matter?
Burrell - May 07, 2016 5:26:33 pm PDT #23930 of 28558
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So they are courting the derisive mocking laughter, Dana? Okie dokie!