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A day of parts

Slept in, did some brainstorming with Steve, and worked some more on the Carousel Tides site, which has had a very short character list and a sample chapter added to its charms, as well as a countdown-to-publication meter. Feel free to go over and take a look, but do remember that it’s a work in progress.

I’m getting ready to knock off for the evening, feeling very much as if I’ve had a lovely, productive weekend, where I learned some new things and wasn’t rushed or harried, so — a success.

Tomorrow, so I hear, is Monday. Too bad about that.

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

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Good-looking heeterskyte . . .

Thank you. Do you know how hard it is to get those guys on film?

Why, yes, I do. 500 mm Nikkor mirror lens on an F2 body, tripod, add patience and a cable release . . .

Is that the bird? A local name? I just did a Google search for it and the only reference they found was right here.

Well, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a plover, or a sandpiper; heeterskyte like to blend in. They're shy and don't speak to just anyone.

Tomorrow, so I hear, is Monday.

Yeah, that keeps happening. I keep meaning to speak to someone about it.

I had already ordered it but now I cannot wait for more snippets. Snippets are good.

Tomorrow, so I hear, is Monday. Too bad about that.

Speak for yourself! My weekend started at 1003pm tonight (Sunday)

YUMMMM!!! What a delicious first chapter!!! I've put it on my eBook wish list.

Adrianne

You know, I wondered last time you created/acquired/whatever yet another blog/journal/website/whatever address. Couldn't see the logic in it then, since you already had more than I thought necessary. Now you've gone and done it again. You're beginning to get a little too close to a young idiot I know who has over two dozen blogs, not a single one of which has any "meat", & all of which are boring as heck, since she copies verbatim left, right, and sundry from everywhere in total disregard to all copyrights or anything else, including whether it's related to the supposed topic/focus of that particular blog or 'way off in never-never-land.

Been drastically reducing user logons, is URL pruning long overdue, too?

-Eta

Yanno, I take exception to being called an idiot in my own living room. Or at all, if we're being perfectly honest.

Oooo, site much improved. And now it starts to become enticing...

The "Geographies" tab is a brilliant idea. I'm hoping it will be fleshed out a bit, just because I am a total slut for maps and Deep Background and such, but just having a tab for it already is an excellent indicator of what flavor of book we're looking at here.

I do hope you add an "About the Author" tab. Speaking personally, there are precious few authors I really want to know more about (I have found that they -- like every other type of human being -- are as likely to disappoint as inspire*) but I seem to be in a tiny minority in this.

*Let me hasten to add that present company is very much excepted. There are only a tiny handful of author blogs I follow, even among authors whose writings I love. But those few do manage to present themselves as such genuinely interesting and nice people that I actually *do* want to read about their writing techniques. And political opinions. And lunch plans. And cats.

Yeah, this is definitely going to be a long work, with things added in as I have time. I need to add "About the Author" to the list of pages to be made/info to be added. Keep forgetting that. I'm not the interesting one, Kate is :)

I didn't think I called you one, I called _her_ one. YOU don't copy other people's words VERBATIM as if they were your own and link to every page on a website without so much as a by your leave! She did both. YOU know about copyright. She doesn't understand copyright at all, nor trademarks nor any of that stuff and has no comprehension what so ever about "fair use" of anything she finds on the web, copyrighted or not!

I have a hard enough time just keeping one website and occasionally visiting a handful of others. I just fail to understand why you might need so many blogs. I'd have thought one for you, one for Kinzel and one website for the business would be plenty and you couldn't possibly keep up with very much more. Not and write so as to make a living over and above the day job. After all, there's also Binjalis on Baen's website and the Theo Waitley community on Live Journal for you to keep up with, too. And what was that other? Ne'ermind: I forgot.

If you still believe I called you an idiot, I'll be delighted to prune my URL list and never, ever, EVER come near you again, nor purchase or recommend to a friend any written works by Lee & Miller: chapbook, hardback, paperback, e-book, or _any_ other iteration. Even used.

-Eta

I didn't think I called you one, I called _her_ one.

Ah. I'm only on the approach to idiocy, and the juxtaposition of an unethical idiot who does not know the value and meaning of copyright in your first post is simply an unfortunate accident of grammar. I understand.

I have a hard enough time just keeping one website and occasionally visiting a handful of others.

So many websites, so little time. One needs to filter and be selective. It's a common problem.

I just fail to understand why you might need so many blogs.

Then it's fortunate that you're not running my business or the promotion for my books. I've explained the reason for this new website as much as I care to do and I do not owe you -- or anyone else -- a point-by-point review of my life-plans. I'm doing this because I want to is a Perfectly Valid Reason.

Your complaint seems to rest on the very real consideration that you don't have time to read all the blogs on the internet. No one is making you read any of them. You are free, as you say below, to prune your reading list. I prune my reading list constantly.

If you still believe I called you an idiot, I'll be delighted to prune my URL list and never, ever, EVER come near you again, nor purchase or recommend to a friend any written works by Lee & Miller: chapbook, hardback, paperback, e-book, or _any_ other iteration. Even used.

Also don't like to be threatened. My, what a contrary woman I am. You will of course do exactly as you please.

What a sad and totally unnecessarily hostile post. Perhaps she should take a few Tums or Rolaids...such bile can not possibly be good for her stomach lining.

And if she decides not to read your books, certainly her loss! I purchased my reading copy of SALTATION yesterday and spent a delightful afternoon gulping it down. Ah, how can I learn to be "patient, patient, patient" while waiting now for the release of MOUSE AND DRAGON?

Anne in VA

I don't have much choice in the matter of doing what I please any more, Rolanni. Not reading new Lee & Miller books has never really been an option since I finished Mouse & Dragon's e-arc. You see, by the time Ghost Ship will reach the market, the odds are a billion to one that I will be naught but ashes long since scattered to the winds. The chances that I might not make it to the end of _this_ month aren't a heck of a lot better, either.

...and you're wasting your time arguing on the internet?

Oh boy, oh boy, I just read the first chapter and it sounds great! Thanks for the chapter and the geography. I have the book pre-ordered on Amazon.
My patience is being sorely tested to wait for Carousel Tides *and* (my autographed copy of)Saltation!
Sue H

Nice job on the Carousel Tides website - I like.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

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