Go get 'em, Teppy!
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Sep 16, 2003 9:56:30 am PDT #1927 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Daisy Jane - Sep 16, 2003 10:12:29 am PDT #1928 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm applying for a copywriting job, and I wondering about some things.
These are going to sound like stooopid questions. 1) The FB at the ad agency won't give me copies of the stuff I did there. Should I include a note, something, anything? I really want them to know about my work there. 2) My writing samples. Copied and pasted into a document with publication information at the bottom? Scanned and sent as an attatchment? (resumes are only being accepted via e-mail, and I'm not sure about sending attatchments since some people won't open them for fear of viruses) A scanner that will take a newspaper page is a little hard to come by at my house.
deborah grabien - Sep 18, 2003 2:00:42 pm PDT #1929 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
OK, a nice preeny moment in a long, infuriating day.
As several people know, I'm doing a joint reading with Tad Williams around Thanksgiving. I gave him an uncorrected proof of Weaver awhile back; he offered a blurb for promotional materials and/or the cover.
He just sent it:
Deborah Grabien's "The Weaver and the Factory Maid" is nominally about music and ghosts, and this book has plenty of both, but what this mystery has in even greater abundance is heart and soul -- especially the disembodied sort. The characters are likeable, the haunting spirits suitably frightening yet truly pitiful, but best of all for this reader, no one involved wastes time trying to come up with workaday explanations for the fantastical truth before getting on with the important things.
"The Weaver and the Factory Maid" is charming, in all senses of the word, but also a meditation on love and eternity and all the lives that have been lived, for good or ill, in fields and cottages far from History's main roads.
I am, as they say, all pink and pleased and stuff.
erikaj - Sep 18, 2003 2:25:08 pm PDT #1930 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm sure it's nothing more than you deserve.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2003 2:26:47 pm PDT #1931 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Deb, that's truly marvelous.
deborah grabien - Sep 18, 2003 2:34:59 pm PDT #1932 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Such a nice Tad.
Also, he managed to get to the heart of it: the unseen world is wondrous, stop trying to explain it away with slide rules and get on it with dealing, and not all history is about the big epic pageantry.
Astarte - Sep 18, 2003 2:54:10 pm PDT #1933 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Woo and a hearty hoo, Deb!!!! That's grand.
Counts the days till she can get her grubby little paws on Weaver
Beverly - Sep 18, 2003 3:44:49 pm PDT #1934 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That is a fantastic blurb, Deb. Congratulations! And he is nothing but correct, no hyperbole involved.
Betsy HP - Sep 18, 2003 3:53:03 pm PDT #1935 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
OH, how splendid.
deborah grabien - Sep 18, 2003 4:07:20 pm PDT #1936 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Betsy, you'll come to one of the reading/signings, right? And bring the kids?