pointers five

[truepenny]

ONE! The auctions for hominysnark (who, I have learned, named one of her cats Mildmay, hence the icon) are in their final twenty-four hours, and the bidding has reached:

• The Bone Key and 4 mss (plus a fifth when it ceases to be vaporware): 110 $125 $130 $160
  
• 3-book set, Mélusine, The Virtu, The Mirador: $170 $200 $250 and a suggestion that both top bidders be allowed to win, which I am pondering.
  
• Mélusine: $60 $75
  
• The Virtu: $50 $60
  
• The Mirador: $40 $45

That's $420 $435 $465 $475 $480 $485 $500 $550 $580 thus far. I said that if we reached $1,000 I'd do a serial podcast of The Virtu. Now I picked that number deliberately to be out of reach unless something amazing happened, because OMG that's a lot of work, but I have another offer: if we reach $500 total, I will do a free podcast, or podcasts, of up to 10,000 words of my published short fiction, stories to be chosen by you all via LJ poll.

ETA: We're past $500. Yay! After the auctions close (i.e., in about forty minutes), I will put up the poll.

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TWO! In other auction news, the bidding in the helptheproject auction for all four DoL hardbacks is at $100 $200 $250 $300.

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THREE! My Storytellers Unplugged column for February is about endings: "Both The Great Detective Explains It All ending and the Mawwiage Is What Bwings Us Togethah Today ending are artificial in the extreme, and frequently–as Elizabeth Bear pointed out when I mentioned it to her–awkward, obtrusive, and unsatisfying, but the thing is, I understand why people do them. Because it gets everybody to hold still for FIVE FUCKING SECONDS so you can END THE GODDAMN BOOK ALREADY. And I don’t care if your eyes WERE closed, Aunt Mabel, this is the picture that’s going to the newspaper."

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FOUR! yuki_onna speaks for every woman who has ever bought deodorant.

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FIVE! FIVE BEAUTIFUL POINTERS! In case somebody else out there needs these as badly as I did, videos of dancing hexapods.

Comments

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

The kitty in question, if you'd care to see him:

http://hominysnark.livejournal.com/243890.html#cutid1

And thank you again, so very much.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful stripy boy!

And you're very welcome.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Oh he's gorgeous!!! The tom who sired my childhood cat was a silver cameo tabby with white gloves and boots.

[braddr.livejournal.com]

Hi there.

The 3 book set link in this summary post is a duplicate of one of the single book auctions. It should point to 717241 rather than 717484.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Damnation.

Thank you for catching my goof!

[braddr.livejournal.com]

No problem. All those links.. very easy to mis-paste one. I've been meaning to read these for years now. So, combine that with a good cause like this and problem solved all around. :)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that the Great Detective Explains It All ending stands or falls depending on how much the artifice works as exercised by the Great Detective rather than the author. Or in Archie Goodwin's case by the Great Detective's poor bloody legman having to go out and organise everything and more often than lot having to swindle or coerce some of the people into place and bitching about it all the time.

Yay, excuse for userpic.

(BTW, if one were reading your due South essays as one rewatches the series, would comments posted to them at this point in time be likely to get replies, or should I take them to mail ? LJ is kind of fundamentally not well structured for conversations of that degree of asynchrony.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes. I deleted a digression on Rex Stout. *g*

And, yes, commenting directly on the posts will work just fine.