If there are any Judith Tarr fans in the house, it looks like she could use some help. [link]
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Calli - May 04, 2016 9:44:07 am PDT #23915 of 28427
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
hippocampus - May 04, 2016 11:47:55 am PDT #23916 of 28427
not your mom's socks.
Because this belongs in literary: Way to go Gud!
t- I think you betaed at least one I haven't released yet (circus-adjacent), plus the wasps. And yah. All the questions... I've gotten really good at not answering those. See: R/fantasy yesterday.
sj - May 05, 2016 5:20:53 am PDT #23917 of 28427
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I grabbed my copy of Cog, Gud!
Sox, is the novella part of the Bone Universe or is it a separate thing? Because I could possibly find more time to read the novella first.
EpicTangent - May 05, 2016 12:25:16 pm PDT #23918 of 28427
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Got my e-copy of Cog, Gud, and added it to my "currently reading" section on Goodreads (which won't be actually accurate until my Kindle is back in range of my Wi-Fi, but still, boosting the signal!)
Beverly - May 05, 2016 12:31:25 pm PDT #23919 of 28427
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Ordered a bound copy of Cog, Gud. And one of the novella, Fran, to keep Updraft company until Cloudbound is released.
I don't own a Kindle (I probably will, eventually), and truthfully, I'd rather have a book on my shelf, so that's what I buy. And will probably continue to, even if the day comes when most of my reading is done on a device.
Consuela - May 05, 2016 7:10:28 pm PDT #23920 of 28427
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I grabbed it on Kindle, Gud! Looking forward to it.
hippocampus - May 06, 2016 8:57:10 am PDT #23921 of 28427
not your mom's socks.
SJ the novella is gemworld. There will be a set of linked short stories - another is up at BCS.
Thank you so much Beverly. I love buffista bookshelf.
I just turned in page proofs on CLOUDBOUND. I go boom now.
Burrell - May 06, 2016 9:35:03 am PDT #23922 of 28427
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Woot, Sox!
Beverly - May 06, 2016 11:29:48 am PDT #23923 of 28427
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Welcome. I'm a veteran of haunting bricks and mortar bookstores: facing Buffista books out on the shelves, talking enthusiastically to a friend about a Buffista book where we'll be overheard by browsers, if a book isn't apparent, asking about it in person--"We can have it sent from another store." and by phone--"No thank you, birthday party this afternoon and it was to be a gift (stock the book, dummy)" etc., etc., after pre-ordering multiple copies on Amazon to get numbers up, planning Christmas and birthday and other occasion gifts of books.
The Kindle has sort of obsoleted those skills. I need to learn new ones. And also, I R dum--what is BCS?
hippocampus - May 06, 2016 4:22:51 pm PDT #23924 of 28427
not your mom's socks.
Welcome. I'm a veteran of haunting bricks and mortar bookstores: facing Buffista books out on the shelves, talking enthusiastically to a friend about a Buffista book where we'll be overheard by browsers, if a book isn't apparent, asking about it in person--"We can have it sent from another store." and by phone--"No thank you, birthday party this afternoon and it was to be a gift (stock the book, dummy)" etc., etc., after pre-ordering multiple copies on Amazon to get numbers up, planning Christmas and birthday and other occasion gifts of books.
You are a book fairy godmother.
kindle has hanged all that.
Not entirely - bookstores are still hugely important, ditto for reviews online. And even more so, word of mouth. It's hard for a book to stay afloat without it.
BCS ?
An online SFF magazine called beneath ceaseless skies - Topaz is free there, along with many other excellent short stories.