We are reading "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" at my house, which is a book about punctuation. That may sound dull, but in fact it's a really fun book. Anyway, we...
... I'm sorry I seem to have lost the first line of this post -- sometimes my mailer eats things when I forward messages to answer on my other machines. That...
... "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," yes? No, she doesn't profess to nuke punctuation - exactly the opposite!! My dad got it for me for xmas (the British version, ...
I'm responding to myself, sort of, because I seem to have lost Kyran Jaye's post :/. It's been that kind of ten days. The antibiotics are almost gone and the...
... I believe the mistake was mentioned and apologized for back when the book came out, and I'm not really upset about it, of course - I was kidding ;) It...
I feel a bit of a need to rant, and after some thought, have decided that the safest place to do so is here. I should warn people that this is somewhat...
Michelle Sagara <Michelle.Sagara@...> wrote: To keep this short -- and we all know how good I am at -that- -- Publish America uses POD (print on demand)...
... This is not in any way rude. Just so we're absolutely clear. I am, demonstrably a published writer. The brilliance is oft argued <wry g>. But I can say,...
... backhanded compliment? I don't think you are really qualified to understand this; you are a published and brilliant writer. The brilliant is important. ...
Michelle Sagara <Michelle.Sagara@...> wrote: It's the inability to move on, or the shock at the actual situation, rather than the unfounded hopefulness of...
... Anyway thanks for your understanding response to my rant. I do think an apology is required from me as - as Thunderchild quite rightly points out - I was...
... Running the risk of repeating what has already been said, I think this is, in part, due to the fact that you are a brilliant, published writer. Yes, there...
... Okay. I understand part of this. You do not want to write just for an audience of one. I write poetry. Sometimes, I write it a lot. Since University,...
Sorry to hear about the bronchitis and infected paper cut. I hope all is mending well now. ... <Michelle.Sagara@s...> ... them ... g>. ... and ... often ... ...
... <Michelle.Sagara@s...> ... hear a ... moment ... while I ... you ... until a ... and I ... differently now. ... But it's *been* a couple of years since the...
Well, here is my two cents on the rant (I agree that it lacks the vituperative force usually associated with such things)<g>. It seems to me that what Michelle...
... I have the ability to speak with a great deal of vituperative force when actually annoyed but I think I decided, on balance, that I wasn't actually...
Michelle Sagara <Michelle.Sagara@...> wrote:> ... I know someone who waited longer :/. Did you submit it under your own name? Hi I did submit it under my...
... I would, as usual, have joined him in this endeavor but I just finished THE SUN SWORD and I'm a little over-awed.. I find it hard to comprehend that you ...
... heeehehe! The W's would be a pretty prestigious shelf at that.. I totally have to check out what company "Lewis" would keep now.. ;D Stew ===== ...
... The thing with you, Stew, is that you LIVE IN TORONTO and thunderchild lives across the widest stretch of ocean he can possibly find, and then relies on my...
... That's actually what I was referring to: the fact that you had this background at the time you were looking into publication. ... Well, I don't know. Some...
... I am! I scan them, but if I don't see an author I know and love, I pass them right by! Then on to the section I currently interested in! (I go through...
... I stuck it there after a recent breakup.. and then Mich mentioned in passing that it was the email sig a friend in University used for ages so I left it...
... <Michelle.Sagara@s...> ... This makes sense. Have you found that your own bookstore work had that effect? I know that our two bookstore experiences vary...
... this is the big Can of Worms. No, it's not good. There's a blog with a lot of discussion about this, and I post the URL now, although I warn you that it's...
... I've always *noticed* the endcaps and front-of-store pockets - but I very rarely see anything I'd be interested in reading in those places. The books that...
... Well, I pay attention to them *now*. And I agree with you completely--like nearly everything DAW, and some of Baen, but it is spotty. So is Tor. ... I like...
... Not so much. The thing about working in a large chain is that you are very far removed from any contact with the buying/publishing end of things. In my...