leahbobet | Words ain't free, like you and me

September 28, 2008 Progress Notes:

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Pages today: 17.
Pages total: 79/264.

79 / 264
(29.9%)

Reason for stopping: End of chapter four.

Munchies: Blackberry yogourt.
Books in progress: Patricia McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head.
The glamour: Word on the Street!

Honourable Mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 are starting to hit the internets, thanks to a very obliging Search Inside function on Amazon. I've received four this year:

"Bears" and "The Girl From Another World", both at Strange Horizons
"Fitcher's Third Wife" in Mythic Delirium #17
--and "Three Deaths", which was also nominated for a Rhysling, at Lone Star Stories.

There was also a mention in both summations, which is nice, and some good lovin' for the friends and Ideomancer. So all is well and all manner of things well.

Spent a nice afternoon at Word on the Street today, nosing through the books (when I could get close enough) and chatting. Ran into

handful_ofdust, Stephen, Cal, their friend Lena,

moon_custafer, and Andrew after about 45 minutes of poking, and went for a late lunch with them at the Duke of York. The haul was pretty small: just a Spacing magazine, one book from Coach House, and a Wellesley Station button; everything else was either something I didn't care enough about, could get later, or an iUniverse book. Seriously. There were like seven booths of slightly frantic-eyed self-published people hawking their stuff.

(Best self-publish author sales pitch: "Do you like to read?" Yes, I do. Or I wouldn't be at a literary festival.)

I sort of wanted to shake them and go "why are you throwing your work away like this! Why!"

But I didn't. 'Cause really, it's none of my business. Even if it makes me sad.

Got home and it was cloudy and chilly, and have been working since. This chapter's shorter than the others, but it had a lot more work that needed doing to it, and took more time. I think the book's gained something like 1000 words at this point. I'm going to have to perform some snippy later on, if this keeps up.

~~Cake~~ Chapter 5 tomorrow, or death!