Gracious.

[truepenny]

There are over 500 of you.

::waves to everybody::

Since I have to write a synopsis of The Mirador today, and since synopsis-writing is an activity which I both hate and am incredibly bad at, I'm going to issue an open invitation:

Tell me something about yourself.

It's an invitation, obviously--nothing even as strong as a request--so if you don't want to, no harm, no foul. But if you'd like to (and this applies as much to the people I know as the people I don't) ... tell me something. Make it as long or as short, as serious or as goofy as you want. If you are a reader who doesn't have a LiveJournal account, that's totally cool, too--just please remember to sign your comment.

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[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I'm an academic who refuses to specialise, and I finally found a PhD program that won't make me do it (or at least was willing to accept my very strange dissertation proposal). My writing is the same way, more or less. If something feels right (be it humour, ghosts, what have you), I put it in. If I ever manage to get published, I shudder to think where the hypothetical book might get shelved.

I remember being absolutely confused by Mélusine when I first ran across it a few months ago on Amazon (I was looking for Jean d'Arras' poem of the same name) and realised it had nothing to do with serpent-women. ;)

Oh, and I have a birthmark in my right eye.

[violsva]

I have obstreperous cats and a good many books. More than I have shelves for, in fact.

Quantities of books, like ideal gases, expand to fit their container; unlike ideal gases, they continue expanding.

[ginger-blue.livejournal.com]

It definitely fits him; it took me several chapters to realize why the name was niggling at the back of my mind.

[kate_nepveu]

When I'm angry, people who had been formerly addressed as "Mr." become "sir." I don't know if the sarcasm is audible.

Gender designation based on experiences to date.

Freedom begins

[aenodia.livejournal.com]

when the children leave home and the dog dies.
So we sold our home moved into our motorhome we we could travel and see the country. It is now ten years later and we are still living in our motorhome.
I picked up on your LJ after WisCon 30.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

I met you at the last WFC. We share a friend. :)

I'm a bookworm who grew up to be a residential remodeling designer. I write on weekends when my brain is not melty. I've discovered construction crews and SF/F do not mix, except on full moons and when someone's been dabbling with the contact cement.

I like the double life.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

When I hear speech, I "see" it written as well as hearing it.

It's never in the same typeface twice in a row.

I suspect I've created some typefaces without knowing it.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

I used to load railroad cars. Tonight Mr. Ford is showing me a documentary on freight operations in northern Minnesota, and when they got to scenes of the train crew walking alongside coupling cars, I got all nostalgic. Could almost smell the oil and the dust and the sun-warmed metal and the thousand-and-one smells along the tracks.

I wonder what happened to my old hardhat.

[mokie]

I work at a pet store. Between the urge to demand that managers let my hamsters go and the itch to run through the aisles yelling, "SCIENCE DIET IS PUPPIES! SCIENCE DIET IS PUPPIES!" I have never felt so close to Charlton Heston.

My love for truth, justice and the brotherhood of man is surpassed only by my love for Tostitos' salsa con queso.

I have a fiendish love of photography. Favorite subjects: flowers, animals, and gravestones, but not in a "pale girl draped over a headstone" sort of way. More in a "Damn goth, get out of my shot!" sort of way.

[joecrow.livejournal.com]

I just started wearing earrings again, after several years of leaving them out. Now that my daughter's mostly past the "yank on the shiny thing sticking out of daddy's head" stage, it's safe again. Of course, the only holes still open are the first ones I got, about 19 years ago. I'm thinking about getting a couple more; I've been Joe Normal for too, too long now.

[chanphenglew.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough to be someone's grandmother, but chose to spend nearly half my adult (since age 21) doing humanitarian work in Southeast Asia instead. Most of my writing energy goes into writing reports and what's left over goes into fiction (though sometimes the two get mixed up). I'm fluent in two Asian languages and can get by in two others, but the most important things in learning a language are: desire to communicate, willingness to make a fool of oneself and joy in playing with words.

Shortly put...

[peippeliini.livejournal.com]

I'm quite the normal person, from a not so normal country...That country resides in the north and is filled with lakes and woodland. They say Santa Claus comes from that country, but don't go believing it. We shall admit nothing.
I'm more of a reader than I am a writer, but that's mainly because I sink into everlasting slumps and am unable to continue my stories 'til they're finished.
Mostly my writing involves around narrative roleplaying.
I'm more comfortable reading and analyzing.

On a sidenote...English isn't my native language, so forgive me the abundance of grammar mistakes and what not.

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

Ah, a reason to delurk. :) I picked up Mélusine a few weeks ago, and ended up devouring it during a long car trip. It was such an engrossing read that the dreaded motion sickness didn't rear its ugly head even once.

Other than being a big fantasy fan occasionally suffering from motion sickness, I am a classical archaeology & ancient history major with a weakness for studying interesting but perhaps not always 'useful' subjects. Other weaknesses include spending an awful lot of time on-line -- browsing, posting, roleplaying and tinkering with websites -- and, most importantly, horses.

Oh, and I am terrible at writing anything and everything meant to summarize and overview something (the requirement for an abstract caused some delay in the delivery of my Masters thesis). I am much better at making something twice as long as it ought to have been.

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

I'm a sort-of academic. I read fanfiction. I've been a voracious consumer of speculative fiction ever since my dad handed me a copy of Dragonsong when I was 8. Thinking about religion, queer theory, and feminism (yes, all of them at once) makes me happy.

I waited for a year (or so?) to read Melusine because I have a firm policy against buying books in hardcover (lack of shelf space). However, I finished it with two hours left on the plane ride to Tel Aviv, and was cursing for hours at the fact that The Virtu wasn't out yet here, and I wasn't going to be back home for over a month.

[heresluck]

I have a refrigerator full of vegetables right now. No, seriously: FULL of vegetables. I should send you a photo.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Um, I write fanfiction. And I think I probably should be following your writing journal with my art-student journal.

I'm Melbournian, born and raised. And I play backgammon. My parents decided to send me to school instead of setting me up as a backgammon champion.

I'm more interested in the process of writing and the uses and limitations of language, than I am in actually writing, I think. I've read too much Lacan and Zizek, which is why it's taken me ten years to write eight thousand words on my fantasy-political novel. I started when I was nine and it was very Mary-Sue-ish.

My favourite novels are Les Miserables, Invisible Cities and the Riddle Master of Hed.
I have two subjects left in my Arts degree, they start this week. I will have a major in German.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

My wife and I met you at papersky's tea party at Duckcon. I hadn't read your books at the time, but have now and love them.

I study/teach cognitive psychology at a school with no cognitive area, which is great because if I break discipline boundaries there's no one to yell at me. I write science fiction and fantasy, and am in pre-pro limbo. Story accepted and paid for, not yet published, no set date for it. Also, I bake brownies as a stress reaction.

[owlfish]

I have a bad tabs habit, and keep them open for days at a time until I get around to reading them or decide what to do with them. In this case, I've had the tab with your post open for three days, a clear sign I should restart my web browser sometime soon.

When not dilemma'ing over tabs, I'm a recent doctoral graduate working on the whole What Happens Next project.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

I'm 52, and I play video games!

I've finally got hold of a copy of 'Melusine' and I love it. Thank you!

[peneli.livejournal.com]

Riddle Master of Hed!

*fangirlsquee!*

More people I know need to read those books.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Yes!
I picked up the first one randomly one day in the Library because the I was interested in (Lost Years of Merlin, which I still haven't read) was still out. I liked the cover.
The first time I read them, I quietly really liked them. And then a few years later I found the first one in a second bookshop, bought it and then spent the next four weeks finding the second two in the same edition.
I've them twice since then (most recently I just picked the first one up to remember how it opened, and kept reading). I've been wonderfully surprised both times how much I love them. I love the world, and the writing, and the way the characters treat each other.

And now I've just read the first ten pages again. *g*