My favorite Zelazny is Lord of Light. But thick trade sized paper backs apparently wear out faster than slim whatever you call the size they sell in supermarkets.

Lord of Light rocks. Madwand is very good, and Road Signs. Zelazny had such a cool, twisted brain.

Ok, so Barb, I reread Dorian. And this is a fairly significant departure from what you`ve been talking about. But if you wanted to do a genderswitch, the modern day corrolary I see is a statement on eating disorder. The way the mirror lies with its version of you, and how your own beauty and character can suffer for its grasp. Not a morality tale; you`d have to be super careful about how you handled it, but it could be done with or without supernatural at all.

Liese, that's actually a fascinating take and if I was going to take this YA, I think I'd seriously consider it. But I think I'm really leaning towards making it adult, making it a bit gothic (Southern, no less, with setting it in New Orleans) and giving it a touch of paranormal with the great psychological underpinnings that the story lends itself to.

I have no idea if I have the chops to pull this off, but we'll see.

So last night's sleep was filled with dreams where Matthew Gray Gubler was helping me write the Dorian story by drawing dinosaur creatures with glasses. I told him I didn't write fanciful dino stories, he told me to roll with it.

My subconscious: subtle, it ain't.

Hee! Love it.

IOwritingN: I have to come up with a blurb that Adrienne can use in the pitch for the new YA proposal I just finished a couple weeks ago.

I love writing, synopses are hard, but not bad, all things considered, but the blurb is my Waterloo.

yay blurb!

Cooling a Fevered Planet manuscript out to Betas. Barb, send me synopsis and I'll see what i can do on blurb.

Insent Gar. Thanks.