Quick Updatery

[rolanni]

I think I forgot to report here that I did speak to the actor who will be reading the audiobook edition of Carousel Tides.  We went over pronunciations, and talked about accents (I found out that Ramen Noodles is RAYmin Noodles in NYC, whereas downcoast only a couple hundred miles, in the beautiful city of Baltimore, we tried to avoid eating RAHmin Noodles).  The narrator’s name is Elisabeth S. Rodgers; I like her voice for Kate — which is very important, since Carousel Tides is told in first person.

Steve and I will be at BangPop! in Bangor on Sunday-coming, September 19.  SRM will have a table in the dealer’s room, and we’re scheduled as panelists.  If you’re in the neighborhood, come on by!

I’m very much looking forward to seeing Great Big Sea this evening at the Waterville Opera House, the moreso because they look to be the icing on the cake of a Rather Trying day.

Yes, I’m still working on Ghost Ship.  No, it’s not finished yet.  Nope, sorry, no snippets.  Yes, sorry, I have been and will be scarce in the blogoverse for definitions of “scarce” that include “not posting every day”; and, as is too often the case, I am behind on answering email.

. . .I think that sums up.

Everybody have a great week!

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

Comments

[jl-johnson.livejournal.com]

Isn't it interesting how distance can change the way a word sounds?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen any publicity for BangPop! up here. Sunday is a long-bike-ride day . . .

What's the schedule?

[eseme]

There appears to be no schedule. Or rather, their site claims to have a very cool schedule which will be posted "soon." Given that the event is Sunday, this is unlikely to be helpful.

And their website has no "Contact Us" section with email addresses.

Good luck! I've got to pick up a friend at an airport not located in Bangor mid-afternoon on Sunday, so checking their website was more curiosity than anything else.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I poked at the website. Cryptic, and neither Steve nor Sharon are mentioned as program peoples, nor SRM as a vendor.

[eseme]

I noticed that too.

I also noticed that this event was two days last year but just one this year. Which is interesting.

I'd love to try SnowCon, as anime is less my thing than gaming, but cons in Maine in January and February seem like a bad idea.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

RAYmin? Really? I'm from NY, still have friends there, and have never heard that pronunciation -- it's always been RAHmen in my hearing.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't get me started on Australian English v. American English....it's not so much the pronounciation as the choice of words. :) And yes, we ALL speaka da English.

Happy belated birthday - I hope you truly enjoyed your day.

Good luck with catching up and doing battle with the day job.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

Accents

[claire774.livejournal.com]

I do miss hearing that down east Maine accent from my summers in ME as a child. The NY state Brahmin accent a la Franklin Roosevelt has completely disappeared. Too bad. It was kind of cute. I did have a boyfriend yea these many years ago who was from that class but didn't speak like that.

Good luck with the day job. We know you have to work on Ghost Ship when you can.

C. and Gus.