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Meanwhile, apologies for the lack of much by way of posting on this blog this week: the to-be-read-urgently PDF proofs of my book The Dragons of Manhattan arrived on Sunday night from publisher Screaming Dreams at roughly the same time that Pam and I were at the emergency vet's watching one of our cats, Strider, breathe his last. It has been a busy but not very happy few days. Normal service will be resumed soon, honest.
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Date: 2008-03-19 03:52 pm (UTC)Love, C.
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:00 pm (UTC)Many thanks, C!
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Date: 2008-03-19 04:15 pm (UTC)Clockwork looks to be a great one!
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:00 pm (UTC)Many thanks for the condolences. I know you've been through this same sort of thing recently, so know precisely what it's like. Not fun.
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-19 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-19 08:01 pm (UTC)Many thanks, Laird!
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-19 08:02 pm (UTC)Many thanks, John! Whenever a cat dies you tell yourself it's going to be easier the next time, and it never is.
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:13 pm (UTC)On a lighter note, the a/w for the book really is stunning, and quite intriguing! Congrats!
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:03 pm (UTC)Many thanks for the condolences, K!
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:31 pm (UTC)Gorgeous artwork on the new anthology! Congratulations! Quite the line-up, also. *jots ISBN*
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:05 pm (UTC)Many thanks for the sympathies, Selkie!
"*jots ISBN*"
And make sure you pass it along to LStC, too.
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Date: 2008-03-19 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-19 09:02 pm (UTC)My sympathies for your loss, Thog. It's always wrenching when a loved one--furred or feathered or not--goes on the Great Journey.
*hugs*
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Date: 2008-03-19 11:36 pm (UTC)Er, I quite like Tanith's fiction, too.
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Date: 2008-03-20 12:58 am (UTC)Me too.
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Date: 2008-03-20 01:14 am (UTC)I just feel like it's a dirty little secret because I have a whole bookshelf dedicated to her in my room where nobody can touch it without my permission. Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect, I now have a little frisson of delicious feeling when I see my house stuffed full of them. *grin* Plus, her fiction is so good I feel transgressive when I read it.
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Date: 2008-03-20 02:00 pm (UTC)"Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect"
That must have been ghastly for you. I'm glad you're able to balance that out now!
I've always thanked the fates that my own childhood was exactly the opposite -- probably because my mother grew up in a house where there was some tension over books: my grandfather was a bibliophile and my grandmother considered them "suspect", as you so rightly term it. Whatever, even though the family never had any money when I was a kid -- especially after my father died -- there were always plenty of books in the house, both bought and library-borrowed.
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Date: 2008-03-20 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-20 05:15 pm (UTC)But now I can put a book anywhere in my house I want to. Sometimes I leave a book on the kitchen counter just because I CAN. It is unexpectedly sweet.
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Date: 2008-03-20 06:34 pm (UTC)"my stepfather ripping a book in half (the spine"
Ouch! That hurts even just to read about!
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Date: 2008-03-20 09:21 pm (UTC)Just noticed . . .
As a Tanith fan, you ought to rush and see http://time-shark.livejournal.com/145856.html.
(A confession: I have a story in that antho, too.)
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Date: 2008-03-20 09:22 pm (UTC)I look forward to reading your story too! :)
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Date: 2008-03-19 09:17 pm (UTC)Good luck with the editing!
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Date: 2008-03-19 11:02 pm (UTC)It's actually proofreading I'm doing, not editing . . . although sometimes, because in inferiority-complex mode I always fiddle with my own text at proof stage, it does seem a bit like editing. Ho hum.
Would you like a copy of the PDF proof, Charles?
I'll do a link to your Take No Prisoners review when things have settled down a bit. Probably tomorrow, when I'll (probably) be quasi-reviwing a Canadian-published Finnish novel you've never heard of . . . but which is actually pretty goddam marvelous.
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Date: 2008-03-20 12:03 am (UTC)Sure, no problem although I'll be out of town over the weekend.
Go do your own commitments first before plugging me. =P
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Date: 2008-03-25 12:23 pm (UTC)"Sure, no problem although I'll be out of town over the weekend."
I'll get the PDF to you Real Soon Now, honest. There were enough corrections (embarrassingly, all but two of them being My Fault) that the publisher, Steve Upham of Screaming Dreams, decided it'd be worth having a revised proof. This came in yesterday; I'll try to give it a quick check before the end of the week . . .
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Date: 2008-03-25 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-19 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-20 01:23 pm (UTC)Many thanks for the sympathy, ol' buddy!
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Date: 2008-03-25 12:24 pm (UTC)And did you have a whale of a time at Eastercon?
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Date: 2008-03-25 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-26 12:00 am (UTC)"Only disappointment was that Colin Greenland and Ken McLeod and Clute and you weren't there, otherwise Bogna's Angels would have been complete."
Sigh. Why, I wonder, does she bother with Greenland, McLeod and Clute?
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Date: 2008-03-20 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-20 01:24 pm (UTC)Many thanks, JM! As you say, they're family.
xox
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Date: 2008-03-20 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-20 09:17 pm (UTC)Thanks for the sympathy, V! We're getting over it, although there's still a sort of cat-sized gap in the world, somehow.
Just about to e-mail you . . .
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Date: 2008-03-21 01:51 am (UTC)Serendipitously, my family once owned a dog named Strider. It's a good name.
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Date: 2008-03-21 02:01 am (UTC)"Serendipitously, my family once owned a dog named Strider. It's a good name."
Yep. Which was why my feisty black female space-pilot character Leonie Strider (star of a couple of space operas I wrote 'way back) gave her name to a wimpy white male cat: as soon as Pam and I saw him it just seemed the natural name for him (not the "Leonie" part, of course). Maybe we'd had a couple of beers or something . . .