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(Alternate title for this post: Love is the plan, the plan is stet.)

Today I go one-on-one with the CEM of A Companion to Wolves.

I'm on p. 27, because although I cannot write while I eat dinner, I can copy-edit. There are 419 pages. (For those playing along at home, The Mirador has 772 ms pages.) I am allowed to leave things that make me dithery for [livejournal.com profile] matociquala to decide. (This is the great virtue of a co-author. She saves you from yourself. Where "you" means "me.")



Last night, I remembered the tentative first line for The Sidhetown Tigers which I'd come up with Thursday night while trying to fall asleep and then completely lost.

Jefferson Finch was a lousy pitcher, but he was the best we had.

Apparently, Marigold Dempsey is a first-person narrator/protagonist. Now I know.

(It is a comfort to me that the two other novel-length projects that are at the head of the queue are both definitively third-person. So it's not that I can't write anything other than first-person; it's just that I know not to argue with what novels tell me about themselves.)



My spies tell me that there is a favorable review of "Amante Dorée" in this month's Locus, "Amante Dorée" being my alternate history transsexual New Orleans story. This makes me very happy; now all I have to do is wait for my copy of Locus to show up.

This is what writers do when we're not sticking pencils up our noses. We wait for the mail. Of course sometimes, because we have brains the size of planets, we stick pencils up our noses while we wait for the mail.



Okay. 392 pages to go. Banzai.

Date: 2007-02-03 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com
*loff*

carry on.

Reviews and Writer Friends

Date: 2007-02-03 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesgirly.livejournal.com
I'd like to add you if you don't mind. Spend my days banging out stories and waiting for the mail. Hoping to branch out a little.

Re: Reviews and Writer Friends

Date: 2007-02-03 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Please, feel free.

I almost never add anyone back, but it's not because I don't like the people who read my blog. It's because if I have more than about 22, 23 people on my reading list, LiveJournal becomes this terrible burden, and I don't read and I don't post, and it's just ugly.

Add

Date: 2007-02-03 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesgirly.livejournal.com
Thanks for your note and I will add you. I totally understand how you go about your adding me in return, but in this case, my journal is so over-the-top fascinating that you must give some other boring person the boot and put me on there. I'm pretty sure the whole Live Journal thing was inspired by me too, but I don't have any actual proof of that, you know - to sue or anything like that.

Date: 2007-02-03 11:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kirby-crow.livejournal.com
Just dropping by to tell you that I saw "The Virtu" in hardback today at the bookstore and the cover is just stunning. I stood there and read the first few pages avidly, looked at the hardback price, cursed, and put it back. :( Sigh. Soon.

But sighting was made doubly cool because it was clasped between an adorable pair of black bear bookstands! Ha! Lj inside jokes. I knew I should have had my cameraphone with me. And yes... yes I did look for one of [livejournal.com profile] matociquala's books just so I could put it between the bears.

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