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All of you who are reading this are probably already aware of my book, out there in the ether, and how it's not on Amazon (as I know I probably grumble about that more than I ought). Due to some hacker issues on the White Silver Publishing Web site, it's not currently self-evidently available there. This means, at the moment, it is near impossible for someone to get my book (unless they're ordering it through their local game store).
Should you happen to be doing viral marketing for me, please pass on this Web site: www.whitesilverpublishing.com/fiction/. From there, it's pretty easy to find the Online Store link (which has a very strange Web address that no one will remember off the top of their heads), despite the weird looking reconstruction going on with the site.
Of course, you can also always direct folks here to the live journal as well. :)
Despite these set-backs, I'm getting excited about Departure, for which I'll be getting the edit back from my editor any time now, and Regaining Home, which I just started last week. It's going much more slowly than I'd like, which isn't surprising since I don't really seem to hit my stride until I'm about half-way into the story. I also resolved a lot of the actual issues in the second book (not all of them!), and was expecting this one to be more action oriented. But I'm not sure how it will work yet, and as much as I know it's fine for fiction writers who write in an RPG world to break the rules (see R. A. Salvatore), there's stuff I want to do that I'm just not sure I can get away with and keep the spirit of the way magic works in the game... We'll see.
Thanks to the folks who responded about Hero, by the way. I didn't have a chance to reply to comments last week (for a host of reasons, most of them dealing with how I'm behind schedule on a number of projects, which is never fun), but I was glad to stir the conversation. I think what it boils down to, which I wasn't really accepting, is that you can't separate the story from its context, and considering all the human rights violations roughly sponsored by the Chinese government, the value of the state above the individual is worrysome in Chinese film. Taken as a story out of context (my favorite way to read, watch movies, and etc., which is why I was never very good at lit analysis), it's not worrysome--but it's dangerous to treat stories in that fashion when there are real world issues involved. (That doesn't stop it from being a great freakin' movie, of course.)
Now I'm off to organize my head for another week, and listen to my husband read Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett, which I just finished an hour ago so he could have his shot at it. (I say listen because I giggled out loud through the book, and he's already laughed several times. Good fun stuff.)
Currently Reading: Not sure. I think I'll pick up Taltos, the next book in the Stephen Brust "Vlad Taltos" series, since I've really been enjoying those. I may also start either Jeff Duntemann's The Cunning Blood or Julie Kenner's California Demon, which is due back at the library next week.
Currently Playing: Living Kingdoms of Kalamar, but sort of in the editorial capacity... :)
Recently Watched: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which has some of the best DVD extras I've ever seen.
Should you happen to be doing viral marketing for me, please pass on this Web site: www.whitesilverpublishing.com/fiction/. From there, it's pretty easy to find the Online Store link (which has a very strange Web address that no one will remember off the top of their heads), despite the weird looking reconstruction going on with the site.
Of course, you can also always direct folks here to the live journal as well. :)
Despite these set-backs, I'm getting excited about Departure, for which I'll be getting the edit back from my editor any time now, and Regaining Home, which I just started last week. It's going much more slowly than I'd like, which isn't surprising since I don't really seem to hit my stride until I'm about half-way into the story. I also resolved a lot of the actual issues in the second book (not all of them!), and was expecting this one to be more action oriented. But I'm not sure how it will work yet, and as much as I know it's fine for fiction writers who write in an RPG world to break the rules (see R. A. Salvatore), there's stuff I want to do that I'm just not sure I can get away with and keep the spirit of the way magic works in the game... We'll see.
Thanks to the folks who responded about Hero, by the way. I didn't have a chance to reply to comments last week (for a host of reasons, most of them dealing with how I'm behind schedule on a number of projects, which is never fun), but I was glad to stir the conversation. I think what it boils down to, which I wasn't really accepting, is that you can't separate the story from its context, and considering all the human rights violations roughly sponsored by the Chinese government, the value of the state above the individual is worrysome in Chinese film. Taken as a story out of context (my favorite way to read, watch movies, and etc., which is why I was never very good at lit analysis), it's not worrysome--but it's dangerous to treat stories in that fashion when there are real world issues involved. (That doesn't stop it from being a great freakin' movie, of course.)
Now I'm off to organize my head for another week, and listen to my husband read Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett, which I just finished an hour ago so he could have his shot at it. (I say listen because I giggled out loud through the book, and he's already laughed several times. Good fun stuff.)
Currently Reading: Not sure. I think I'll pick up Taltos, the next book in the Stephen Brust "Vlad Taltos" series, since I've really been enjoying those. I may also start either Jeff Duntemann's The Cunning Blood or Julie Kenner's California Demon, which is due back at the library next week.
Currently Playing: Living Kingdoms of Kalamar, but sort of in the editorial capacity... :)
Recently Watched: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which has some of the best DVD extras I've ever seen.
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