Here's a good summary of publishing industry clusterfuck: [link]
Yikes.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Dec 05, 2008 5:59:40 am PST #4442 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2008 6:01:50 am PST #4443 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
People! It is very slow at work today! Please to be posting more!
On that note, I give you space beer: [link]
Gudanov - Dec 05, 2008 6:04:37 am PST #4444 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Boy, imagine if book sales hadn't increased.
amych - Dec 05, 2008 6:05:37 am PST #4445 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
space beer:
Neat! Only this:
There's really no beer like it because it uses 100 percent barley.
is very very sadly wrong and makes the baby Saint Gambrinus cry.
Shir - Dec 05, 2008 6:09:29 am PST #4446 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I don't wanna write a Greek history paper: it's the weekend, hence it's evil to do anything that doesn't make me happy.
Why can't I copy-paste this policy to every weekday? I don't mind reading articles, but actually thinking? And writing about something I'm not sure about it yet and don't have an original thought about?
Signed,
Don't wanna be a responsible adult, it is WEEKEND
lisah - Dec 05, 2008 6:13:21 am PST #4447 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Happy finding-each-other-versary, msbelle and mac!
What she said!!!
Frank, I am so sorry.
I partied too hard with my friends in town from California and with my boyfriend last night. Lucky boyfriend got to stay home today (although he is up and working and reporting on the goings on--which animal is sleeping where--back at my ranch). I found out that my friend put my band in his new novel playing at a club i used to go to ALL the time back in SF. Book is with his agent now. Fingers crossed that it eventually gets published!! I know that is not so likely these days.
Allyson - Dec 05, 2008 6:20:20 am PST #4448 of 10002
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
Oy. The publishing thing is freaking me out. I have a new book! And another not far behind!
Crap.
Shir - Dec 05, 2008 6:22:58 am PST #4449 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
And hell, I'd like to see Buffistas Books Being Published.
Gudanov - Dec 05, 2008 6:27:20 am PST #4450 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
If book sales were up year to year I wonder if this is more a matter of just trying to cut costs in order to boost the stock. I don't know how many of these companies are private or public though.
Barb - Dec 05, 2008 6:30:04 am PST #4451 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
The few positives for me-- only at the moment-- is that a) I have nothing on submission at the moment, so no chance of anything falling through the cracks and b) commercial fiction and young adult both remain fairly strong.
Pity I can't actually write a decent romance (by romance, I mean the play by the rules stuff the genre demands) to save my life.