Still here.

[truepenny]

Deep in the throes of book hate. Have some links.

My second monthly essay for Storytellers Unplugged is up.

rivkat reviews Mélusine and The Virtu. (Also The Queen in Winter.)

strangecreature also reviews Mélusine and The Virtu.

The Time Traveler Show #20 is the podcast of the panel John Scalzi, Nick Sagan, and I did at Penguicon 5.0 about lost SF Grandmaster Godfrey Winton.

Speaking of John, he reminds us that the voting for the Hugo closes Midnight (2359 hours) Pacific Daylight Time, Tuesday, July 31, 2007. John's up for Best Fan Writer. I my own self, as you may recall, am in my second second year of eligibility for the Campbell.

Enough about me. How are you?

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[larryhammer]

Mostly okay, though I'm dragging my feet on getting started writing. I have to replace a chapter with another set of scenes with the same name, as it were. Retooling a protagonist's immediage motivation and giving another character a personality means all but the entrance and exit no longer obtain, and I'm never enthusiastic about that sort of change.

Good SU column. Good food for thought. My metaphors tend not to be either listening or strife, but vocal, which can get me in trouble sometimes.

Time to turn off the WiFi card and get too it. After more coffee.

---L.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Sweaty, partly from having worked like an ensorcelled thing for several hours at a necklace which is truly one of the demanding ones, and partly from having thereafter come downstairs, reread Bear's "Hacking the Grey Jelly" post, and promptly hauled out the old rowing machine that lives in the basement, wrestled it upstairs, and then tranced out to large muscle movement for a while.

The necklace makes me think a bit of "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home." Where did your work from that one wind up, again? Is it out? Have I got it? (Do I sound like a cartoon meerkat?)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I can has new clutch! Let me show you it!

[maki-to13.livejournal.com]

Firstly, great essay.

Secondly, hi. No, you don't know me. Stumbling across your journal was the result of a twisted chain of events that began with my picking up Melusine literally an hour after I finished Harry Potter 7 last Monday. My friend had chucked her copy of Melusine and The Virtu at me, screeching at me to READ THEM NOW.

So. I thought, seeing as how I found your lj and all, that I'd pop in and say "hi" and that I love your books. Book. I'm actually only a hundred-or-so pages into Melusine at this point, and I'm already in love, though I'm not exactly sure where the story is headed. Felix just ran away from Robert, who visited him at the crazy-house, and the Dogs just found Mildmay at Margot's. I'm still waiting for Felix and Mildmay to meet, because I know it's going to happen eventually (IT HAS TO!!!). I hope you don't mind my ranting. Except for the friend who shoved your books in my face, who is currently unavailable for communication, I have no one to rant at who would have the slightest clue what I was talking about. So. I'll end with saying that I adore Mildmay, I'm still not sure how to feel about Felix, and I want to kick Malkar in the face multiple times.

Thirdly, I'm going to add you to my flist. Hope you don't mind.

I'm off to find out what happens to Mildmay now. Ta!