Return of delivery week

[rolanni]

So, in addition to ordering in the Large Monitor, I made a Quill order over the weekend — paper, toner, pens — all the things that fuel a writers’ household. Also, I bought books.

On Tuesday, a white-box truck pulled up and off-loaded two cases of paper. An hour later, UPS arrived, schlepping the monitor and a smallish box from Quill. This proved to contain one (1) box of toner.

Yesterday, the rest of the toner arrived, and the pens.

Today, I believe we have nothing scheduled to arrive, but I look forward to tomorrow’s deliveries of The Sleeping Partner and Just My Type, and Saturday’s arrival of the CD set of A Night in the Lonesome October.

Steve and I still need to achieve new winter coats. Ours are from…2004. I bought them with the employee discount, the first year I worked at Bean’s for Christmas. They’ve worked hard, these coats, as anyone who looks at them can instantly perceive.

Some folks down in the discussion thread regarding Found Files have asked about the possibility of continuing the second Shan and Priscilla novel.

The answer to that is — I don’t know. It would very much be a novel to feed existing fans, and such novels go through moments of favor and disfavor, as the winds of publishing do whatever the winds of publishing do. Also, I’ll just mention that there are NO NOTES with the 80 pages, just the pages, and the words, and the unwritten, but clear, “and as obviously follows.”

See? I’m no easier on myself than I am on you guys.

I’m going to sit down with the Klamath partial this afternoon, but I suspect the case is going to be much the same, there. With the additional challenge, if we decided to go forth, of needing to unravel “Misfits” and weave it into the plotline.

Today, the weatherbeans promise us rain. That’s OK; I’m in for the day, working.

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

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear that some writers are still using the traditional technology -- quill pens. *g*

The problem with winter coats is shedding them in the spring. At least, that's the problem when one has cats. (Alternatively you could collect the cats' shed coats and make yourselves coats from them...)

You could just publish the Shan and Priscilla novel as it is and leave it wit a comment "the rest is left as an exercise for the reader"...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You could just publish the Shan and Priscilla novel as it is and leave it wit a comment "the rest is left as an exercise for the reader"...

In a way, that's tempting, but I'm afeared that some Creative Readers would take that as blanket permission to fanfic, and since I am opposed to and disallow Liaden fanfic...

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

I would sort of like to see Mr dea'Gaus's scold Priscilla for not having children to continue her Line. I know he either has or wishes to very much, just I can't quite imagine how he does it. And I'm sure that declaring lifemates will only increase his desire to scold.

I also suspect Padi finds the lack more than a little upsetting too.

[mbernardi]

You could run a kickstart campaign, which would only kick off if you can get enough funds.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I could. But Baen would have to reject it first, 'cause the contract says Baen has first dibs on any new novel-length material in the Liaden Universe(R).

Serialized?

[hap hollibaugh (from livejournal.com)]

If in between the contracted books already in the loop, you two could squeeze in more of Shan and Priscilla's "working it all out", I would love to pay to read installments like I did for the first round of Theo! Can't get enough of your words in print as far as I am concerned!

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[claire774.livejournal.com]

Couldn't post for a couple of days.

I'm very sorry about that personhood bogus nonsense and therefore the situation for women in Mississippi. For me it's usually expected there I'm afraid. It's a very unfortunately example in my opinion of how religion can go horribly wrong producing a very negative effect on society in general. I recently saw the movie "The Help" which was a really eye opening story from the past. Unfortunately in some ways it looks like things haven't gotten much better in MS at this time. It's very sad. And if things aren't so great for the humans in that state I shudder to think how conditions there are for the animals.


Thanks for all the new pieces on Splinter Universe I see you've been working very hard indeed.
C.