One of the headlines from today's Publishers Lunch newsletter:
Publishers Have Success Selling Print Books That Look More Like Beautiful Objects; Also, the Sky Is Blue
Heh. Get your snark on, PubLunch!
I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. So where does that put you?
Book ,'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Amy - Dec 05, 2011 6:47:10 am PST #4981 of 6690
Because books.
Consuela - Dec 06, 2011 9:11:23 am PST #4982 of 6690
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just finished watching the intro to Scrivner video, and yeah, I think that's EXACTLY the sort of tool I need right now.
OMG Jilli Scrivener is DA BOMB. I'll never take on another big writing project without it, and I've only scratched the surface of what it can do. But just being able to have multiple screens open on the desktop has been a lifesaver.
Connie Neil - Dec 09, 2011 3:34:28 pm PST #4983 of 6690
brillig
Ah, the Internet, I just spent half an hour tracking down what the phase of the moon would be in Spain to have it a couple of hours above the eastern horizon at 2 AM.
Allyson - Dec 10, 2011 6:33:45 am PST #4984 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Scrappy - Dec 10, 2011 8:16:14 am PST #4985 of 6690
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Thats amazing, Allyson. Thank you for posting it.
hippocampus - Dec 12, 2011 11:08:36 am PST #4986 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
if there's extra acceptance/sale~ma lying around GWW, I would be very grateful for it. Signed, Yes, I will happily send you more but would you please BUY at least one of them?
In other news, first draft of this other monster project is nearing completion. I think. Wooo.
Polter-Cow - Dec 14, 2011 11:30:50 am PST #4987 of 6690
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So very cool, Typo! Congratulations!
Typo Boy - Dec 14, 2011 11:54:10 am PST #4988 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
sales ~ma for Sox.
hippocampus - Dec 15, 2011 3:52:03 am PST #4989 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Wonderful news about the website and the book, Gar! And thank you!
Gudanov - Dec 29, 2011 4:56:06 am PST #4990 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Well, I'm on a drive to be ready to submit my novel (sure wish I'd get something back on the short stories, I feel like I've launched them into black hole. OTOH, it is the holidays). My query in progress is looking like this:
Thirteen year old Cog has no intention of marrying a count, no matter what her long-absent mother wants. She figures countesses don’t get their hands greasy fixing steam wagons, and that simply won’t do. Instead, she stows away on an airship destined for the crown city and forges a name onto a list of the queen’s new apprentices—a boy’s name. If pretending to be male wasn’t enough to worry about, she overhears a plot to assassinate the queen and throw the kingdom into war.
While fixing everything from vitality concentration meters to checkers-playing automata, Cog tries to unravel the conspiracy. But between a kleptomaniac gremlin who knows her secrets and a best friend with a crush on her alter ego, her false identity is breaking down faster than an ungreased computation engine. Worst of all, as the time until the assassination clicks away, she learns one of her friends is slated for an unwilling and fatal role. Whether it's sabotaging a royal airship or marching alone into a cursed forest, Cog will do whatever it takes to save the day.
Stopping a war and saving her friends isn’t the same as fixing an auto-mechanical potion mixer, but she has a set of precision screwdrivers and isn’t afraid to use them.
COG is a YA steampunk fantasy novel complete at 85,000 words.