Sunday To-Do

[rolanni]

1. Set up auction for red-leather book
2. Eat breakfast. Do not drink more than four cups of coffee. um. oops?
3. Salute the cats
4. Clean cat boxes
5. Set bread to risebake
6. Proofread Ghost Ship (read today's 100 pages; read 100 pages tomorrow and the thing's done.
7. Laundry
8. Eat lunch
9. Supper, too
10. Go to bed before 2 a.m. No. Really. I'm going! I'm going!

For those playing along at home -- Steve has achieved Baltimore, and has seen his mom. Various family stuff proceedeth.

Regarding the Ghost Ship galleys, yesterday in the course of my proofreading, I came across two things added in by the editor*. One of them, to my embarrassment, I thought I had fixed myself in revision, but apparently not. Sigh. This is why we have editors, and why the idea of Renouncing Traditional Publishing and Showing Them All!, while occasionally attractive, is maybe really not the road everyone ought to take. Especially if you are -- as most writers of course are not! -- just a little prone to wearing your nerves on your sleeve.

Now, having said the above -- I have an Idea. It would be more of an Idea if the perfessers would leave over dinning in my ears so I could have five minutes to think, but -- summer's coming. And not a minute too soon.

Anyhow, just, yanno, casually asking -- would you be interested in a web serial detailing the various doings of the courier ship Ride the Luck? I'm envisioning a series of interlocked short stories. Would you be willing to subscribe to such an endeavor, knowing that there would be no reward beyond the Warm Fuzzies?

And now! The laundry calls.


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*Both to the benefit of the story.

Comments

ride the luck

[(Anonymous)]

I would be very interested in that series. Please do it.

[verana1111.livejournal.com]

Re: serial--YES! The reward wouldn't be warm fuzzies, it would be reading the stories.

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Yes, please.

[arkessian.livejournal.com]

Another yes please!

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Another vote in the YES column.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Sorry, off topic. How's Hexapuma doing without Steve?

Oz

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Hex is. . .confused. He's gotten used to using the co-pilot's chair in Steve's office, when Steve's there. Right now, he's checking in eight, nine times a day, but the pilot's chair is empty. Also? He doesn't seem to be downstairs, or in bed, or. . .it's not like Steve to just not be anywhere. OTOH, it seems that Hex is at the moment at least willing to believe he'll turn up realsoonnow...

Serial adventures of Ride The Luck

[(Anonymous)]

Whoo-Hoo! Sign me up please!!!!!

serial

[(Anonymous)]

oh yes, please. There is so very little in life that is not dreary.
You would be more than heroic to add that to your laundry list! :)
Can't pay with Paypal anymore. They want in to my bank account.
Happening when Hel thaws, sigh. 10 years of convenience lost to greed.

But there is always the old old lame fashioned paper check - grin.
Nanette

Re: serial

[readinggeek451]

Are you sure that Paypal actually needs your bank account info to work? They keep asking for my bank account number, so I can be "verified", but I ignore the requests, and my Paypal account still works just fine with my credit card. Worth checking, if you haven't already.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely YES! And if they work, you can always publish in chapbook form or electronically, since you seem to have mastered that now. :-)
Mary

[ellenru.livejournal.com]

Yes Please.

[debmats.livejournal.com]

not so casually replying - re:serial: OH YES!

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

I loved the era of your electronic serials, so I think your courier short story idea is grand.

[cheryl feil (from livejournal.com)]

Add me to the yes list. I'd find the $ to subscribe :-)

of course

[stick-breaker.livejournal.com]

You Start Next week, right?

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Hell to the YES re: serializations. As the first comment said, the reward is the stories.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Would you be willing to subscribe to such an endeavor, knowing that there would be no reward beyond the Warm Fuzzies?

Well, strictly, if the only reward would be the warm fuzzies, I wouldn't get to read the stories after they were written...which would be very very sad :( but yes, I would support such an endeavor for just the warm fuzzies. *very big puppy eyes* but I would prefer to read the stories too!

*scurries off to see if PayPal will do monthly autopay*

Liaden web serials are good. I'd pay for that sort of thing again.

[samrobinson.livejournal.com]

I miss my weekly/whenever story. I'd love to have that something to read come back.

[kmartin802.livejournal.com]

Anyhow, just, yanno, casually asking -- would you be interested in a web serial detailing the various doings of the courier ship Ride the Luck? I'm envisioning a series of interlocked short stories. Would you be willing to subscribe to such an endeavor, knowing that there would be no reward beyond the Warm Fuzzies?

Add another loud and enthusiastic "yes" from me.

serial

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Especially if I could print them out. Later ebook availability would be good also. The more formats the better.
Sam

[furballtiger.livejournal.com]

woo-hoo! (yes^n!)^m! where n,m are the number of hairs on two randomly selected Maine Coon cats.

serial

[rosemary jones (from livejournal.com)]

Sure! Sounds good to me.

Of course!

[johnhawkinson.livejournal.com]

A web serial? Of course I would subscribe! Note, however, that while there might not be a *reward* beyond Warm Fuzzies, there would be the ACTUAL STORIES, which are more than a reward!!

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Probably would subscribe. After all, we get plenty from the original readings.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I'll subscribe.

[bearddevil.livejournal.com]

I would be EXCEEDINGLY interested in such a web serial. I would most happily subscribe to such an endeavor, and any other serialized content you should wish to publish. I really enjoyed and was more than happy to financially support the previous web serialization, over and above buying a hardback copy in the end.