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REVIEW: Ode to a Dead Lord, Jolie Beaumont
This was an impulse buy. I'd set up a roleplaying Twitter account with some friends (and I've neglected it lately, sorry guys), and, in keeping with the character, I'd been friending other historical personages, so Twitter started suggesting things like museums and authors of historical novels. Jolie Beaumont came up on the recommendations, and I ( Read more... ) -
Where was I?
Well. I got really distracted by starting an exercise program. Then I overdid it and crashed. And I completely blew being able to write "Publishing the Banns", because for all that I had an outline and a nice chunk of research, I lacked a voice for the POV character. And there was mundane stuff like filing taxes (I still have to do my state taxes ( Read more... ) -
I'm starting to figure this out.
If you take the world of romance as being like the entire world of fanfiction, then the sub-genres are the individual fandoms.
So there are paranormals with their subdivisions: vampire, werewolf, psychics, faeries, witches. And there are Westerns, both historical and contemporary. And police stuff, and military, and the ones about billionaires, and ( Read more... ) -
Things I should do today
Dishes, and writing.
Things I did today: bake brownies, and play with the internet.
The story with the next deadline needs more research before I can even start it, I think -- I know, I know, the research-hole, but I need to get a better sense of Polly's background, and of how she became the Rockinghams' sole cook-maid, when she is young, and ( Read more... ) -
Everything is research.
Or, Julian Griffith Cannot Ever Stop Being A Nerd.
Not that this should surprise anyone. I spent the weekend at Arisia, a Boston-area science fiction convention. Most of the time, I was running around dressed as Bellatrix Lestrange (I went to
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Posting forecast this weekend: light to nonexistent
But if any of you are going to be at Arisia, look for me at the Naughty Nurses table at 11-1 Saturday, or 1-3 on Sunday. Or look for Bellatrix Lestrange on Friday night, Idris the TARDIS on Saturday after 4PM, or fem!Jack Harkness on Sunday outside my tabling shift.
I look like this:
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Sometimes Sin's A Pleasure
Project: Goth geek chick-lit vampire thing Sometimes Sin's A Pleasure
Market: Your guess is as good as mine
Deadline: I'm calling this a draft
Wordcount: 9501
I really, really wanted to get this up to 10K, because most anthology calls put that as a floor on their short stories.
But even after I went back and elaborated on the Built-In Designated Driver ( Read more... ) -
I dunno, man. I just do what the voices in my head tell me to.
Project: Musketeer/Jewish playwright novel
Market: Probably Storm Moon, unless I'm advised it might work elsewhere
Deadline: 10K in the file by 2/1 for the orgasm_circlet challenge: ACHIEVED!
New words written today: That's a goddamned good question, as I was adding notes and revising an existing scene as well as adding new words. However, there are ( Read more... )
