Friday Wrap-Up

[rolanni]

Busy week here in the north country.  Highlights include:

1.  Steve and I spent Sunday at BangPop! as vendors and panelists.  I had a wonderful time, and got a couple dozen Carousel Tides samplers into the hands of innocent people potential readers.  One nice lady even came back to thank me for the sampler, told me she was going to pre-order the book at her favorite store, was a little impatient that November was so far away, and asked what was wrong with Kate’s health.  Score!  We also got to be on TV.  Keep a sharp lookout about 38 seconds in.

2.  The page proofs for The Agent Gambit landed on Steve’s desk.   I know what he’ll be doing this weekend, while I’m sitting with Ghost Ship, laying in those suplots.  Psst!  Working weekend at the Cat Farm!  Pass it on!

3.  Last night was our gig at the Lithgow Library in Augusta.  Steve read from Mouse and Dragon, I read from Carousel Tides; we talked about the vagaries of the writing life, answered questions, and signed books.  We had a group of about nine interested folk, including two students who had driven up from Bowdoin College, so it was more like a gathering of friends than an Official Presentation — an illusion that was given more substance by the Lithgow Reading Room, which includes an Oriental rug, a grandfather’s clock and wing chairs so comfy I was prepared to sign a lease.  Many thanks for Robin for inviting us!

4.  On the way home — or possibly on the way to — the library, we stopped at Barnes and Noble so I could deliver an invitation to the Carousel Tides book launch to Stew, who’s been taking care of the Science Fiction section for a number of years now.  While we were there, I talked to Stacy, the community relations manager.  We’ve still got some details to work out, but it looks like Steve and I will be doing a signing either the last Saturday in November or first Saturday in December.  Watch this space for details!

5.  When we got home last night, there was an email waiting from Toni Weisskopf, our editor at Baen, attaching a very nice review of Carousel Tides that will-or-has appeared in the September 27 issue of Publishers Weekly.  Money quote: Lee brings these disparate subplots together in a pyrotechnic finale that plays out magically behind the ordinary facade of smalltown Maine life, evoking much of the romance and magic of her popular Liaden series.

6.  Today is Friday.  My weekend is totally committed to Ghost Ship.  Psst!  Working weekend at the Cat Farm!  Oh, wait; I said that.

So, what’re your plans for the weekend?

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

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weekend duties

[tessie614.livejournal.com]

Preparing to welcome my neighbors dog for 10 days. Neighbor on vacation and my dog thinks the preps are in her honor. She'll like a playmate. Aside from scrubbing baseboards and general cleanup. When I get ont the floor to start scrubbing the four-foots think it is play time.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Drive up to Norwich for the night (~70 miles). Pick up (and pay for) new car (same as the old car, only several years younger and silver instead of blue; yes, I'm "trading her in for a younger model" *g*). Drive back down to home (~172 miles). Drive down to east London (~64 miles) for music theory lesson, stay overnight. Drive up to Cambridge (~70 miles) with passengers for choir practice. Drive back down to take passengers home after choir practice). Drive back up to Cambridge to my lodgings to be ready for work on Monday.

In other words, a pretty normal weekend...

Have fun writing!

[silverdragonma.livejournal.com]

Living dangerously. I am starting a nine day, stay in New England vacation.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the nice words from PW.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I have this tee shirt in two incarnations, and covet your icon!

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Swipe away, I snitched it from the Gorey Store there were several great ones to use as icons.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Thanks to your great find!

weekend plans

[k-10b.livejournal.com]

bushel of crabs and a couple of cases of beer. My mom's back porch.

Happy Birthday to me!

Kristen
ps ... I'm with the lady waiting, waiting for November. ; )

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

Smug.
I got the November Webscription. I'm only waiting for mid-October.

Oh, on the Bar yesterday a barfly cheered that Ghost Ship is on the schedule, lamented the months till next August, and asked if there would be an eArc. Toni said yes.

So have a good weekend nailing down all those pesky subplots into their places.

Me? I have several weeks worth of cathair dustbunnies that I really must corral. Dustbunny rodeo time.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

Attending the Great Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, CA. (http://handcar-regatta.com/) It should be a most interesting Sunday, full of good fun, good people and extremely creative home built handcars. And it will be hot. Lowest prediction I've heard is 92.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Working weekend at the Writer's Nest.

Finish putting up web stuff for one nonprofit I help. He's got a book coming out the same day as mine!
Finish putting up Book View Cafe's Events Calendar stuff.
Start a Facebook Group page for Nuala books.
Upload web changes for website.
Design a business card for Nuala books with new logo.
Create an author page at Amazon.com.
Write a blog post for BVC for next week.
Cook.
I think there's a life in there somewhere....

Looking forward to my copy of Carousel Tides arriving from Amazon -- congrats on a great PW review!

[eseme]

The reading and rambling was fun and informative.

My weekend already started - I've got stew to show for it. My half-day today is due to working tomorrow, and then I plan to take advantage of the Smithsonain Free Museum Day and go to the state museum with my ticket (you just fill out a form on their site, pick your museum, and go). Saturday should wind down with dinner with friends.

Sunday will hopefully involve walking, an antique fair, and an RPG over Skype.

That was timely

[(Anonymous)]

thanks for the mention of Smithsonian Free Museum Day. My vacation starts Saturday and I had no specific plans.
Now I do.

Re: That was timely

[eseme]

You're welcome! It's a great program, and one I very much enjoy. I'll pick a different museum next year.

Enjoy your vacation!

Congrats and Weekend Activities

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Congrats on great review of Carosel Tales in Publisher's Weekly was it? I see your publisher is switching around your novels for omnibus editions.

My weekend started tonight at the last evening of DocUtah a gigantic week long showing of new documentaries, and holding of seminars in St. George UT and also in our little town of Kanab. We had a reception here with many dignitaries of the documentary film world. Guest of honor: Helen Whitney, creator of many documentaries shown on PBS including her latest "Forgiveness".

Tomorrow... I will help walk Chelsea, a Redbone hound mix, who was on a chain on a local redneck's property for the all 5 years of her life. On the chain because she didn't prove to be a good huntin' dog. Now off the chain and being fostered by a friend who needs a lot of help with Chelsea who is a very strong dog, not leash trained, gnashing her teeth at the cats and so on. Chelsea doesn't like other dogs or cats. She's not leash trained and barks a lot. Anyone who doesn't have other animals, is very dog savvy and looking for a hound or just looking for a special needs dog please let me know. She's partial to women and young men. Very pretty. Needs a fenced yard. No city apartments please.

Yay!! You, go, writers!

[(Anonymous)]

You sound happy - but then again you have good news. :)

I have an author coming to sign Saturday - what if aliens landed
in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg? is the premise. I'm
hoping some folks will take time out from the Baltimore Book
Festival to attend.

Then I start gearing up for a VERY busy October - got events
scheduled almost every weekend. Whew - where were these people
last August? Oh, yeah, their books weren't out yet. :)

Pretty day - hot but with a breeze.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

[star-horse3.livejournal.com]

Is it the job of an advertent author to ask Amazon to post the PW review on the product page? (Or agent, or publisher?)I often see reviews from PW, Library Journal, etc. under editorial reviews, and I wondered what prompts Amazon to put them there. Some people really do buy books based on favorable reviews from well known sources. Wish I could come to the Old Orchard party, but I'm too far away. I'll just have to read my copy of Carousel Tides and think of you all having a blast!

Lynda
PS Loved the quote from James Hetley.