OK, anyone know anything about there being a difference between "cancelling" a contract and "terminating" one?

Also, I want to give a shout-out to another Atlantic blogger, Ta-Nehisi Coates: [link] He was at the Washington City Paper when I was obsessed with it, and it's pretty impressive how that whole staff has done. Jake Tapper is probably the biggest "name," but a couple of them are at Time, David Carr at the NYTimes, etc.

I think it's pretty just that James Franco's face wasn't changed much. I think his eyes are just on the cusp of size (unlike that guy from Pearl Harbour that looks like he's squinting all the time).

I'm feeling bad because I'm declining an interview--the place is 20+ miles from here: 30 minutes in good traffic, almost 2 in bad. Which is closer in good traffic than my last faraway job, but much further in bad. And this is LA. It's never good traffic if you're on the road. I just can't sign up for that again, and it's nowhere I'd consider moving.

OK, anyone know anything about there being a difference between "cancelling" a contract and "terminating" one?

I could be wrong, but no. Unless the contract itself specifies a difference.

Barb - but Agent Kate is a nice lady, go ahead open it up. If it is rough, we are here.

Okay-- I opened up the file. Goddamn but there's a lot of red in there. I knew up front that her main beef was that she feels I tend to repeat myself and that I should allow the reader to fill in the blanks. i.e. streamline. Of course, she's also good enough to acknowledge that her idea of streamlined and mine probably differ just a wee, so that it's not as much my taking her every suggestion as it is finding a happy medium.

::sigh::

At least she didn't say it sucked.

oh, hey, Sam just sent me his chapter nine. It's called Foxy Ladies, and about two flying foxes.

Named Bev and Barb.

Heh.

Things I Have Looked Up On Wikiepedia This Morning:

Jean-Marie Le Clezio - because he won the Nobel prize.

The Legend of the Condor Heroes - because it's the most popular wuxia novel of all time (or so it's claimed in the Chron) and it relates to Wong Kar Wei's re-release/re-edit of Ashes of Time.

Rajasthan - a state in India. Prompted by Jon Carroll's column this morning about how amazing it is there. It was the traditional home of the great Maharajahs so it is filled with incredible palaces and temples. (Wow, it's population is 56 million. I don't know any of them! I feel like I'm missing out.)

msbelle, did you know that Jaipur is known as The Pink City? (owing to the pink tint of the sandstone used in its buildings)

That NYT article had such an annoying pop-up for TimesPeople that I couldn't read it. I thought that was strange.

Security has still not found my cell phone, but someone called my friend Katie, but they were cut off. Now we cannot get my phone to ring, it just goes straight to voicemail.

oh, hey, Sam just sent me his chapter nine. It's called Foxy Ladies, and about two flying foxes.

Named Bev and Barb.

Heh, indeed. That's so sweet.

I just got the art from Dave Dorman!

EEEEEE!!!

My wee bat!

At least she didn't say it sucked.

Of course she didn't. Because it doesn't suck.

Sam! Going home! Awwww.

My editor emailed me today to let me know that she's almost done with her edits, and will be sending me her notes and the manuscript in the next few days. This is where I hide under my desk, right?