Whenever the trees are crying aloud, and ships are tossed at sea

[rolanni]

Slow-moving morning, here at the Cat Farm.

Mozart is dozing on the blanket-covered box at the kitchen-end of the hall.  Scrabble has mounted a watch in the window, and she's keeping a Very Close Eye on the bird feeders.  Especially the woodpecker block, which has been the center of a number of antics this morning.

Bird discursion:

I mean, I know woodpeckers aren't terribly bright.  By my observation, this usually works for them, because they don't tend to notice scary stuff.  But this morning, we have a visitor who can't figure out the chain from which the woodpecker feeder is suspended, and it's distracting him something terrible.  He'd come in, start whacking at the seeds, see the chain, and forget to eat, as he looked at This Strange (and Shiny) Device, first from one eye, then from the other.  It was sad, in an amusing sort of way.

He has finally seemed to have figured out that, if he hangs upside down from the bottom of the feeder-cage, he doesn't have to see the chain, and he can eat in peace.  Which is what he's doing now.

In publishing news. . .

For those who do not tweet, last evening it was Revealed that Carousel Sun (the sequel to Carousel Tides) will be published in early-ish 2014.

So!  This is what we now know about the Lee/Miller and Lee publication schedules for the next little while:

Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume I:  July 2013
Dragon Ship mass market: August 2013
Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey & Pern: August 2013
Trade Secret: November 2013
Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume II: January 2014
Carousel Sun: Early-ish 2014

From the hey, that's cool pile. . .

We hear from Madame the Agent, who gets her Locus before we get ours, that Necessity's Child has hit the Locus Bestselling Hardcover list at Number Two.  Not too shabby -- and you did it yourselves!  Well done, and thank you.

And! Under the topic Discussions Worth Having:

Kyle Cassidy, photographer extraordinaire, muses on pockets and women's clothes, here

. . .and there's a follow-up, here

This is a useful and thought-provoking discussion about what pockets (or the lack of pockets) says about autonomy.  Really worth a read.

Eye Candy:

Really interesting series of pictures of the remains of plane wrecks (all wrecks depicted are non-fatal) in remote places, right here.

In writing news:

Today! Is the day! That I will break 50K.  I know this because I'm only 172 words short of the goal as I start my work day.  It's nice to occasionally have some certainty in life.

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Progress on Carousel Seas

49,828/100,000 words OR 49.83% complete

"You kill that shark?"

She raised disdainful eyebrows.  "Must you ask?"

"In fact, I don't have to ask.  I'm curious about your motivation."

Comments

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Heh. Many people use *chronilogical* order to mean *order of publication* .
As for nearly-simultaneously-occurring books ..... pick whichever has a slight edge? Flip a coin?
And I've considered flashback-sequences as interfering with chronological order, myself

[pedanther]

I have been seriously considering whether it would be a good idea to read the flashback chapter of "Misfits" separately from the rest, at the point it actually occurs.

For that matter, it would be possible to get the novels into something more like chronological order if I arranged them on a chapter-by-chapter basis instead of taking each novel as an indivisible lump.

The trouble is, the authors arranged the chapters in the order they're in for a reason; would I be damaging the reading experience if I re-shuffled them?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

For that matter, it would be possible to get the novels into something more like chronological order if I arranged them on a chapter-by-chapter basis instead of taking each novel as an indivisible lump.

The violence that would be done to story arcs, and character arcs, not to mention rhythm, reveals, and timing by dissecting the books and lining the chapters up chronologically. . .kind of makes me sick to my stomach, but that's just me.

What would be the point of that exercise?

Also curious about the perceived...inconvenience of flashbacks -- flashbacks also being used for a reason.

[pedanther]

I should say that I don't necessarily think this is a good idea, but it's a possible way of approaching chronological order and I wanted to make sure it got covered.

I wouldn't be considering it at all if this weren't a re-read; if I were reading the novels for the first time I would, without a second thought, take the story in the order and at the pace the authors chose to present it.

I'll drop the subject now. This is your space, after all, and making the host sick to her stomach is not the action of a good guest.