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If you're here...
Sun, Oct 08, 2006 02:49
and you aren't looking for the Old Blog archives, you might need to update your links.
My new home page is index.html, and no longer index.php.
The new blog can be found at http:/www.meljeanbrook.com/blog/
I've disabled comments on this site; if you'd like to comment on any of these entries, please feel free to leave a comment at the new blog, or e-mail me.
See you there!
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Reading
Sat, Sep 23, 2006 21:58
Dark Dreamers (just Liu's story, because I have the anthology with the Feehan story somewhere around here). Real good stuff. Good enough to make me look at the novella I just wrote and hide my head in the sand.
Oh yeah, I should probably update that sidebar with the wordcount. Meh, not yet. Still lazy.
Peter S. Beagle -- made me cry with the "Two Hearts" short story, which is the continuation of THE LAST UNICORN. Damn him!
Re-reading Lynne Truss's EATS, SHOOTS, AND LEAVES, particularly the section on semi-colons. Because the semi-colons, as I've recently been reminded...well, I abuse them. Badly. I need to break myself of the habit. Probably the section on dashes again, too.
Monday and Tuesday (and maybe Wednesday) I'll be going over galleys, because those are due back the 28th. I'm going to try to make myself go very very very slowly, because I end up reading instead of actively looking for errors, and then I have to go back and look again anyway.
The first error? The date on the first page. Hehe...that would have gotten me a few "READ A HISTORY BOOK, YOU IGNORANT SLUT!" e-mails.
God, I love e-mails with the word "slut" in them.
Then, I'll be starting the proposal for the next book, and trying to make a rough outline (for my own purposes) of where the next few books in this series need to go and how badly everything is going to fall apart (or not) and sending out queries to agents.
Oh, and updating the site. And doing something with the demon-slayer.com site before DEMON ANGEL comes out.
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This is me.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006 10:13
I pushed the button, I guess. And it was more like 12 years.
But I haven't gotten a life. Mostly, I'm just sleeping a lot and reading a little. In the last month, I doubled my daily intake of caffeine, and after I sent out the novella last week I decided to purge (especially as Ramadan starts this weekend, and I won't be drinking anything while I'm fasting, and I don't wanna go cold turkey). But the change has left me really drowsy, and I've been sleeping all week. Will probably be back on Monday.
ARGH!!! My blog is getting spammed!
...I really need to update this site to WordPress.
*thanks to Mom for sending me that pic. Hee hee.
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Galleys
Thu, Sep 14, 2006 11:32
I received the DEMON ANGEL galleys yesterday -- I'm finishing up the novella (woot! finally!) and doing those final edits so that I can get it out tomorrow, so I actually won't get a chance to go over the pages until next week, but I did take a peek -- the text has a very pretty design.
And it's also small. I think the average romance has about 35 lines per page -- mine's about 45. (My Bantam Classic edition of MOBY DICK is about the same.) Eek! But still, a good deal for $6.99. Right?
But it does give me a great idea for a promo contest: magnifying glasses. Not just for frying ants anymore!
Anyway, it also means that ARCs are probably being printed...and reviews will shortly be coming in. *bites nails* I have a really thick skin, and I won't be too disappointed in myself if they're terrible*, but I do prefer that people actually LIKE what they're reading.
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*HAHAHAHAH! HAHAHAHAH! *gasp, draw in breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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Note to self:
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 20:15
A lack of sleep and too much caffeine makes you a bad speller and a raging bitch.
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Something tells me it's the other way around...
Mon, Sep 11, 2006 12:22
But closing in on the last (and has to be final) rewrite of it.
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Kids shows that freak me out.
Sat, Sep 09, 2006 17:08
Now that school has started again and I'm driving my husband to work in the morning and then waiting at home with my daughter until noon pre-school starts and I'm no longer in bed until *coughcough*, we've been watching a lot of morning pre-school shows.
Some of them are really cute, like the Wonderpets. But some of them give me nightmares.
The puppets on Lazy Town, for example. It's a decent show, and someday I really hope that Robbie Rotten and Sportacus give into their repressed spandex-clad manlove, but the puppets effing freak me out.
 
That's just not right. I like Muppets or whatever, but they're little fuzzy creatures and shit. Not humanoid. I keep expecting one of these little puppets to go all Chucky or Scarface on the little pink-haired girl.
Then there's Boobah. To be honest, even though I've watched this show several times, I have no idea WTF is going on in it. (Oh, thanks to the magic that is Wikipedia, apparently it's supposed to get kids to exercise. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. Your big huge marshmallow pip characters freak me the shit out!) And their heads look like uncircumcised penises poking up from the foreskin.
God, the picture is just enough to creep me out. My daughter luvs this stuff, though.
Do I really need an explanation for the next one?
Actually, it's not the big purple dinosaur that freaks me out...it's the kids he plays with. Have you ever seen them sing and dance? They all bounce around on their knees and sway their shoulders and smile like Barney's promised not to make them sit on his lap that day if they just pretend to like singing A LOT. And they all nod and smile and play nice with each other and listen when another person is speaking. It's unnatural. It's creepy.
But nothing, nothing beats the uber-creepiness of Oobi. As much as I admire the skill it takes to emote with their bare hands...no. No. It's. Just. Not. Right.
Ah, the things I suffer for my child. Of course, nothing quite equals waking up in bed last night with her peeing on me, but Oobi comes close.
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Got in today...
Wed, Sep 06, 2006 16:18
And I'll even have time for the Peter S. Beagle in between other things -- it's a collection of short stories. And Beagle's a freaking genius, and I won't be able to wait. The rest will probably HAVE to wait until after I've sent the WIP in.
Unless I crack, Cindy-with-LOVER AWAKENED-style. Eventually, I'm going to read that series. Not yet, though. I have DARK LOVER still waiting on my shelf (or, actually, down at my sister's shelf, as I've not trusted myself around it.)
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Eureka!
Wed, Sep 06, 2006 12:03
I just figured out what another effing problem was -- I withheld background information for too long. *headdesk* It's not a big secret or anything, I'd just intended to have a character relay that information himself -- but it works better if the heroine already knows it coming in. Romance-wise and story-wise, particularly if space is at a premium (as it is in the novella) it alters everything I needed it to alter, and unsticks me. And it gives him a little more of an edge than he had before, to hook the reader (not to mention the heroine) in a little better.
GAH! Three sentences to put way back in the first chapter. How can three sentences make such a difference?
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