No expertise in medieval French, Deb. But a big woohoo! for the dearth of necessary edits.

Need to call my sister. She's the one with the PhD in French, but somehow, I don't think she'll know the answer. She's can speedread Proust, but the historical, not her thing.

Damn. Must find source...

Which makes me wonder...

We have Buffistas in Germany, in Scotland, in England and Australia, in Egypt and Spain. Why are there no French Buffistas? Is BtVS not shown in France?

Not sure a modern Frenchman or Frenchwoman (hereby known as Frankistas) would know anyway. After all, how many modern English speakers are experts in 14th century English?

look at the gorgeous medieval woodcut Nic found!

I am in love with the copy editor they gave me this time. He's brilliant, he's English (Thank you, Jebus!) and we are moment for moment in synch on corrections. I've done a third of them already - not actually a lot of changes, but doing a page by page read.

Know what? Famous Flower of Serving Men is a fucking brilliant book. I'm a damned good writer, but I can't believe I pulled this one off. It's making me very very happy.

It's making me very very happy.

Yay for the edits, yay for the happy, and it definitely is brilliant.

Do you have plans already for the cover?

(nodding furiously) Oh yes. Brilliant, definitely.

Ooh, what Nilly said. (Hi, Nilly!) Do you know what the cover will look like?

Doesn't it feel good when you read something months later and can still think, "By God, I nailed it."

Here's my sleep drabble. This one is way outside my comfort zone, but here it is.

She had always slept on her stomach, balling up two pillows to keep her body off the bed. It was bad for her back, she knew, but the comfort of holding something soft helped coax sleep to come.

She lay on her back, narrow pieces of tape lined up across her chest. Two bulbs, half full of cherry-red liquid, were pinned to her gown, chosen for its snaps up the front. She shifted and felt a sharp tug on a tube coming out of her skin.

If I could only sleep on my stomach, she thought, everything would be okay.

Oh, Ginger. That's heartbreaking.

Deb, if you haven't found an answer to your question about the French yet, you might find it here:

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Ye. Still hate dreaming. A sleep drabble.

It brings out my insecurities. It makes me feel that what’s real, is not. It preys on my weaknesses. I am sad, upset, crying. I feel not worthy. I feel unloved. I am betrayed and lost. It is happening again. I am unchosen, I am not right and he leaves me.

Even when I know it is all bullshit and he does love me and does choose me and he is here and he is staying, sleep has the power to change it. It can make me feel small and alone and scared.

I need sleep. It helps me believe.

Is BtVS not shown in France?

It is. Sometimes subtitled, sometimes dubbed. In the dubbed version, Xander becomes Alex. Also, Mr. Pointy is M. Pointu. (A few years ago, when I hadn't taken any French classes in a year and was starting to feel like I was forgetting it, I started reading random French websites to keep the language in my brain, and hit on a French site that included, among other things, Freudian analysis of many characters. M. Pointu was mentioned frequently.)