I’ve realized that without caffeine
I am a raging beeeyotch. I don’t really like myself that way. So I’ll probably start downing more again. Strange, but I really thought I’d be more mellow. Maybe it’s just a withdrawal phase?
I’m finishing copyedits/revisions for Demon Bound (new beginning, new ending, various stuff throughout) which I have to mail out Wednesday, so I’m mostly missing from the blogosphere until then. Random stuff:
I found (and finished) High Noon. I brought home Koontz’s The Good Guy from my family reunion, and we’ll see how that works out. Although I love some of Koontz’s stuff (Watchers, Strangers, some others) not all of it is a hit for me.
Please don’t download e-books from piracy sites/message boards. IMO, piracy isn’t about trading/lending books with friends, or even printing out a copy so that your mom can read it. To me, those are fine, because there is a limit to the copies being made. What isn’t fine are those sites where you click on a link and get a file of my book(s) and/or a bundle of other books. Just, don’t. Please remember that if you want to try an author, most have excerpts online, so that you can get a feel for their style/story before you buy (or borrow from a library, or UBS, or whatever). I don’t have any objection to people getting my work for cheap/free through a legitimate distributor of that work. Those piracy sites aren’t legitimate distributors.
I really like Warren Ellis’s explanation of “Where ideas come from.” Although I can’t exactly say the result is the same (although the million nuns sound awesome) the start is: filling your head with all kinds of information, and letting it spark into life. But he says it all so much better.
Oh oh oh. But I liked the old beginning/ending of Demon Bound. Please tell me you kept the scene in the temple.
I came off the caffine entirely last year and I was a raging beeyotch for about a fortnight but after that. I was so blissed out my friends were freakin’.
Best thing I ever did. I felt the benefit instantly, much more so than stopping smoking. Caffine bad.
I hope your edits go ok. I cannae wait for November! Gah!
I love you, Meljean, I srsly do.
A work day without caffeine is pretty ugly for me. Good luck to you.
I have a love/hate relationship with Dean Koontz. The two you named – Watchers and Strangers – are my favorite Koontz books. I’m also quite fond of his Christpher Snow books and Lightning. I can’t, however, get into his Odd books. Something about them just doesn’t work for me. I haven’t read The Good Guy yet, so I’ll be curious to hear your opinion.
I’m very much looking forward to Demon Bound!
Good luck!
May the editing force be with you.
I just finished The Good Guy and loved it! DK is a hit or miss with me as well but this one was given to me by my 85 yo grandmother. She liked it too. I have his Odd Hours on hold for me at the library but I haven’t read the previous Odd books so IDK how that will work out. Maybe you have to start at the beginning in that series but we will see.
Looking forward to Demon Bound! Good luck editing!
I hope you don’t mind, Meljean, but I felt the need to quote you on Karen’s blog with regard to the piracy thing. I think you summed it up brilliantly.
Just spotted this (via a post at Karen’s) and I have to say that is one of the clearest ways of describing the piracy issue I’ve seen. I wish I could’ve worded it so well.
Enjoy your reading!
Wow, doing final edits WHILE withdrawing from caffeine. That is so swashbuckling of you.
Have you ever tried one of Koontz’s older novels called Lightning. It’s a bit odd, but I find myself rereading it every few years.