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The No News is No News Purgatory Thread, Vol. 7
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rosie, it would be totally awesome if you could hire Drop Dead Fred for your launch and have them tweak their single hit to fit your cover. 
I'm not sure I can identify my guilty pleasure because I'm socially inept and don't always know what I'm supposed to be embarrassed about. Or so my son tells me.
rosie, it would be totally awesome if you could hire Drop Dead Fred for your launch and have them tweak their single hit to fit your cover.
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Hi Rosie!Good to see you've hopped off the hamster wheel for a bit. Vamp dust for end caps!
+1.Your cover is officially too sexy for B&N.
Oh, and B&N have 'expressed concerns' about my pretty cover.Modifications have been made. These include a tank top strap, some tactical shading, and a new thumb.
I want one of the awesome journalists we have on the thread to write a story about covers and major bookstores' influence. So many issues there, not just someone's opinion on a thumb...
eta: and I'll add my really guilty, nerd pleasure-expanded Star Wars Universe books. This would be viewed as totally weird in the world in which I live.
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I've been thinking really hard on Lily's guilty pleasures and, for me, it has to be one book: The Mummy by Ann3 Ric3. I have this weird thing about Egyptian Pharoahs, and it just hit all the right buttons. I've read it like 5 times. I might even read it tonight...
Rosie, your cover is uber hawt. I hope I can buy a special edition original cover with thumb butt
Wait, isnt that you?
Wait, isnt that you?
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I missed a lot today--but so much is now absent that I think we'll just move on, shall we?
My guilty pleasure is thrillers with a twist that works. After reading a few dozen, I'm on to the killer being the cop investigating the murder, the sympathetic friend, and all the other easy ones. I'll read and reread a good one, marveling at how well it's done.
So, today we hiked at the easternmost point in the US. The trail was supposed to be easy, but it took just over three hours to do four miles. Really, a thirty-inch step up, onto a squishy tree root, pulling up my own body weight, and not one thing to hold onto for balance? Oh, sure, no problem. Not even when I was twenty and thinner.
But I did think of Caleb over and over as we marveled at this or that plant. I took lots of pictures, but don't have the cable and software to share them here yet. The pitcher plants were too cool, and the bog turf sunk like eight or ten inches under your feet.
We forgot our passports back at the house, so we didn't cross into Canada for lunch as we'd planned. Instead, the my-god-it's-2:30-let's-not-be-picky hole in the wall place was actually quite nice, even though it looked like a dump from the outside.
We felt we'd earned burgers, and enjoyed them.
I've been pecking at my WIP for fifteen minutes here and there, but I can't report much progress. It's getting longer and more detailed, but is it getting better? Not a clue.
Mr. Maryn's been doing a CLE--continuing legal education--course online, and it's pretty interesting even for us non-legal people. It's about social media and the law, and some of the examples, all purportedly real, are hilariously awful. ("The lawyer called the judge a what on his blog?")
Anyway, that's it for me today. The wine has come out and I shall enjoy it, as I always do.
Maryn, junior wino
My guilty pleasure is thrillers with a twist that works. After reading a few dozen, I'm on to the killer being the cop investigating the murder, the sympathetic friend, and all the other easy ones. I'll read and reread a good one, marveling at how well it's done.
So, today we hiked at the easternmost point in the US. The trail was supposed to be easy, but it took just over three hours to do four miles. Really, a thirty-inch step up, onto a squishy tree root, pulling up my own body weight, and not one thing to hold onto for balance? Oh, sure, no problem. Not even when I was twenty and thinner.
But I did think of Caleb over and over as we marveled at this or that plant. I took lots of pictures, but don't have the cable and software to share them here yet. The pitcher plants were too cool, and the bog turf sunk like eight or ten inches under your feet.
We forgot our passports back at the house, so we didn't cross into Canada for lunch as we'd planned. Instead, the my-god-it's-2:30-let's-not-be-picky hole in the wall place was actually quite nice, even though it looked like a dump from the outside.
We felt we'd earned burgers, and enjoyed them.
I've been pecking at my WIP for fifteen minutes here and there, but I can't report much progress. It's getting longer and more detailed, but is it getting better? Not a clue.
Mr. Maryn's been doing a CLE--continuing legal education--course online, and it's pretty interesting even for us non-legal people. It's about social media and the law, and some of the examples, all purportedly real, are hilariously awful. ("The lawyer called the judge a what on his blog?")
Anyway, that's it for me today. The wine has come out and I shall enjoy it, as I always do.
Maryn, junior wino
Oh, Rosie, it's a hassle but it will still be gorgeous!
I think it's Sara Crewe from A Little Princess, who I wanted to be at age 9.
I think it's Sara Crewe from A Little Princess, who I wanted to be at age 9.
Maryn, there's nothing better than well earned food. You've been outside all day. Starving hungry. So awesome.
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I loved A Little Princess! I can still quote parts of it in my head.
Desperate dessert idea for the night: The guys are all working/refereeing late, and will want something sweet after their late supper. It's wicked hot and I wanted the oven on for as little time as possible. I found a box of that cupcake mix with the filling packet (vanilla/vanilla, boring). So after they cooled, I nuked the Nutella and frosted them with it.
Nom.
Desperate dessert idea for the night: The guys are all working/refereeing late, and will want something sweet after their late supper. It's wicked hot and I wanted the oven on for as little time as possible. I found a box of that cupcake mix with the filling packet (vanilla/vanilla, boring). So after they cooled, I nuked the Nutella and frosted them with it.
Nom.
Modifications have been made. These include a tank top strap, some tactical shading, and a new thumb.
good god, where's her thumb now?
haha!
no need to run jo or lily pie. unless
to cool off.
we are Opinionated People with Opinions.
it's hardly those crazy ass threads that i refuse
to go into.
and yes, what cuddles said, Women's Fiction is
marketing label. NOT even shelving at this point.
HOWEVER, i've read that article even before this
discussion, and very true. also in SFF where men
are read and lauded much more than women.
i don't see the LABEL as the problem. the problem
is those that would assume Women's Fiction
automatically means LESSER and NOT WORTHY
or NOT LITERARY. (literary as in worthy of awards.)
it happens also in fantasy.
that, to me is the problem. and
the people who think this. they too
are the problem.
and again, i heard that book was crap. 8) ha
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lily pie, i have a much worn and loved
and reread Little Princess still on my book shelf.
one of my favorite books of all time. i read
Secret Garden as an adult--because i think she's
more well known for that one?
also favorites are streatfield's Dancing Sh0es
and Ballet Sh0es. and i don't even like to dance!
loved those books. still have my copies.
cindy, who will follow puglets into dark closets
and reread Little Princess still on my book shelf.
one of my favorite books of all time. i read
Secret Garden as an adult--because i think she's
more well known for that one?
also favorites are streatfield's Dancing Sh0es
and Ballet Sh0es. and i don't even like to dance!
loved those books. still have my copies.
cindy, who will follow puglets into dark closets
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One of my absolute favorite books from childhood was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. Even as an adult, the ending makes me tear up. Everything about it inspired me: Kids taking chances, adults who supported their dreams, as crazy as they sounded, mysterious happenings, the kids figuring out the mystery themselves, saving the day, and everything coming right in the end, just as you thought it wouldn't.
I usually cite HP Lovecraft as my major influence, but that book, A Little Princess, and the Chronicles of Prydain were much earlier influences. I've had to buy them more than once because they fell apart.
I usually cite HP Lovecraft as my major influence, but that book, A Little Princess, and the Chronicles of Prydain were much earlier influences. I've had to buy them more than once because they fell apart.
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