Of jewels rare and old, and coaches filled with gold

[rolanni]

I'm afraid there's not much to see here, as I make a dash for the end of the book. Insert Snapshot of The Author tipped forward in her chair, fingers on the keyboard, glaring at the screen

(It's funny, Agent of Change was written very much at a dash, and so was Conflict of Honors.  Carpe Diem wanted to dash -- indeed, we did dash, and wrote a whole wrong book.  So, then we had to write the correct book, but at a slower pace, and paying close attention to the rules we'd laid down in the previous two books.   Continuity is hard.  It was then, I think, that we got into the habit of thinking things out in-between the writing, and things went from dash to dogged.)

So!  What're y'all doing or thinking about or reading that's fun and interesting?

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Progress on Carousel Seas

57,347/100,000 OR 57.35% complete

"The customs of a strange land are often confusing, I am told.  One may make errors of naivety, and be forgiven.  Other errors, I fear, Daughter, are not so easily forgiven."

Comments

[kalilama.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about how the phrase "the anatomy of water" might become a poem. And am reading Cheryl Strayed's book Wild, which so far seems like Eat, Pray, Love -- in hiking boots. I hope it is better, I couldn't make it through Eat, Pray, Love.

[reedrover]

I am reading my first copy of the new anthology series (kinda magazine, kinda not) Fiction River, which is tantalizingly titled "Unnatural Worlds." So far, I've enjoyed most of it, and I'm about 2/3 through the stories. I've never met any of these characters before, even the ones from familiar authors. It's been a great way to welcome spring.

[thewol.livejournal.com]

Just finished a nonstop reread of C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner books, culminating with the just published 14th, Protector, which I have in dead tree editions. I'm now trying to decide which of the bunch of new books I got for my Kindle Fire I want to read next. Probably the anthology Queen Victoria's Book of Spells which is "gaslight fantasy." Or maybe start in on Robin Hobb's Rain Wild Chronicles, or Jane Fancher's two Netwalkers books, or Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass -- So many books, so little time!

[lornastutz.livejournal.com]

About 1/3 of the way thru Gini Koch's "Alien in the House"

What I am reading

[wmazzanti.livejournal.com]

Just a quick hello. Job Hunting goes on. In the interim I have read my way through the entire Foreigner series this past week. Have read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance previously and found it very enjoyable. Hope all is well at your end.

Trade Secret question

[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

I just finished re-reading Carousel Tide, Silks by Dick Francis, two Honor Harrington novels and almost all of the Lee and Miller chap books plus a few other things. I have really enjoyed having time to read!
I just noticed on Amazon that Trade Secrets is out for pre-order, but a signed edition of the hardbound book is several dollars cheaper than the non-signed one. This does not seem right. I plan on buying from Uncle Hugo but I did wonder about the pricing???

Re: Trade Secret question

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Amazon...I can't figure out what Amazon's doing; they don't seem to have come to terms with the two-editions-of-the-same-book-thing gracefully, or, as far as I can tell from how they handled our previous two signed/unsigned editions -- at all.

Out of our hands. I think I'm glad of that...