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I write like

Anne Rice

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I write like
Arthur Clarke

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Ahem.  Both samples submitted were from Necessity's Child.  You lucky, lucky people, you.

*goes off to get coffee and laugh hysterically*

Five Calls to Action Make a Post

1. As of yesterday, March 3, Mr. Blyly at Uncle Hugo’s had in hand orders for 294 signed editions of Dragon Ship. This means that he only has 106 copies left to place of his promised 400. If you’re coming in late, and you want a autographed hardcover copy of Dragon Ship to put on the shelf next to your autographed hardcover of Ghost Ship, Now Is The Hour. Here’s the link to the original post, Explaining All. Here’s the link to the pre-order page at Uncle Hugo’s.

2. Judith Tarr’s Kickstarter Campaign is going great guns. Judy’s only needs $649 to make her goal of $3500 for production of her novel Living in Threes. Here’s the link. You know you want a new Judith Tarr book! So, what are you waiting for?

3. The nomination period for the annual SF Site Readers Choice Awards for best novel of 2011 nomination period is open until March 9 (that’s Friday!). Rules and how to nominate the best books of 2011 here (Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller was published in August, 2011).

4. The Hugo Administrators want you to know that the Hugo Nominations deadline is March 11 (that’s next Sunday!). Here are the rules. Here’s a list of eligible Lee-and-Miller, and Miller, titles.

5. The Locus Reader Poll for Best of Everything in SF and Fantasy for 2012 is open until April 15. Here’s the link. The list of Lee-and-Miller, and Miller titles in #4 above will be useful here, too. Though Locus helpfully seeds its poll with titles of books its staff finds worthy, you don’t need to choose from among them; the poll also offers ample write-in spaces. You do not need to subscribe to Locus in order to vote. Please only vote once, and please, please, I beg of you — be truthful regarding your gender.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

In which writing is a science

*cue laugh track*

Frequent auditors of this journal will recall that a few days ago I was cursing Chapter 24 for non-compliance, and Showed It (nyah-nyah) by skipping over it and writing Chapter 25.

After which the lights went out in the story factory and no words got written while I sat in front of the computer for hours at a time, alternating between staring at the blank screen and reading ‘way too many news stories.

Now, when you’re a writer and your brain turns off during the Thrilling Last Third of the novel? At least, when you’re this writer and as above?

That means you screwed up, and your brain has taken you off the happy juice until you (1) figure out what’s scrod and (2) fix it.

Turns out that I’d cut a corner. Not much of a corner, mind you, but the backbrain Seriously Objected to going through the parking lot as opposed to walking the long way ’round the block.

So I’ve spent the last two days going ’round the block properly and I’m now back where I was before everything went dark.

Go, me.

In auction news, remember that the auction for the rare! hardcover! of Partners in Necessity goes over tomorrow. Here’s the link

…and that the auction for the possibly-even-rarer hardcover edition of Liaden Universe Companion Number One goes over on March 7 (that’s Wednesday!). Here’s the link — for the book, not Wednesday.

In real life news, we expect the Oil Burner Guys at 8 a.m. tomorrow, to replace a section of pipe and perform other Oil Burner Guy rituals. The heat will be off for about an hour.

*looks around for her floofiest fleece sweater — finds it under Mozart*

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.