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You'd probably be appalled if you knew what a high getting mail gives me. Sending it gives me a pretty good buzz, too. Anyway, today I got a good, long letter from a friend *and* a BookMooch arrival, after sending off a yarn.

Also, I can't imagine anything more gratifying than having people like the stuff you make enough to give money for it.


Genie's Wish, off to make it big now. ^_^

I don't know how this book got published, but I'm sure every minute it will turn brilliant.

This may just be because I'm not at all sure what's going on.

You will be updated someday.

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Someday is now, I guess.

I skipped forward through it, impatient with reading it without knowing what it was about.
I still don't know, but stories about affairs (and this one focused on...more than one. Many, really.) are not my cup of tea.
I don't see the point. They're painful and messy...and not particularly interesting, to me.

Like Midwinter Nightengale, I end up with still no clue what it's doing in the youth section...besides the fact that it has one young protagonist.

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Again, later:

In better news, I just saw the most geek-tastic Batman Beyond episode.
It makes me want to write a story where games are recruiting tools for secret organizations or something. (I've read a few...)

Which I automatically turn into an element in Librarian Glamor. Which I am work on at this very moment.

A tousle-headed what? how to describe an old guy who's funny...

Bach is my favorite. It's amazing how after I started paying attention when his name came up, most of my favorite classical work ended up in his camp. Boroque and Bach, you have my heart completely....

Update on BookShoubu!2

or rather, philosophy on my predicament:

It is not really a matter of being disciplined and getting down to reading.
It is a fine wire-walk of keeping up with my intended reading beyond the library books that come with their own imperative--late fees.
There is a seduction to the newest on the pile. Unless they aren't really that interesting.
You find me reading Nevernever by Will Shetterly. It is fun, it is distracting me from writing Mortal Queen, though inspiring me to take up my inspired-by-Bordertown short and polish it a bit.
It is also not getting me any further with Midnight Never Come. But feeling guilty, I at least put it on my bed.

For Reviews and Additions you can glance at the following, mostly pretty pictures of book:

( My Sorrow Revealed... )

Before finishing this post, I finished NeverNever.

I recommend Otto and the Flying Twins, which I also finished this week: it's standalone of a prospective series, and has a fun magical world that doesn't feel done. It's pretty good stuff.

Anyone want to critique Knight-Errant or Heart's Desire, a fairy-tale style fantasy short story? It's 4k. Help me out if you can!

The people who have read so far have liked it a lot and not given me much to work with for rewriting. *g* Any volunteers will also be welcome to help me get this story a real name!

I think I might finish a book pretty quick here. I also started a new short story in the world of "Kansai Hop" (more generally useful: like a slightly less boys-book Artemis Fowl universe) which I will cut but still put most of the opening here. Despite the fact that it's not Teaser Tuesday or anything.


Larry ambled down to the marquee, bland expression fine tuned so he could internally sneer at the knocked-in neighboring sign for the ugly wonder of a Funeral Home.   ...

 

This is placed in a specific time in bordertown Claremore, BTW. ^_^