various and sundry are pimping themselves for a Nebula

[lagilman]

Today, after spending much of the morning dealing with paperwork, virtual and otherwise, I got another 2,000 words done on PSI #3. And then, realizing that I was starting to feel a little "woe and teh sad" about the state of pretty much everything, shut down the electronics and went for a nice long city-hike through what turned out to be a nearly perfect autumn afternoon.

My knee's killing me, but everything else is much more settled.

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Meanwhile, the foul matter for FLESH AND FIRE has been delivered. I know some folk keep it, but that's just not an option for me. Some folk donate it, but I can't imagine anyone, in this day and budget, wanting my stuff taking up valuable storage space.

Anyone want shredding manuscript for the discerning literary gerbil's bed-fodder?

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And, in parting: a favor. If you've read FLESH AND FIRE and thought it was Just Swell, could you pass word along? In your blog, in your reader' group, in your annual holiday letter to the cousins you want to impress... share the excitement, and help spread the viral word to everyone. Sort of like the literary H1N1!

(or, y'know, not like it at all.)

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That is all.

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Anyone want shredding manuscript for the discerning literary gerbil's bed-fodder?

I don't know if our gerbil reads, but I could ask her.

Sort of like the literary H1N1!

(or, y'know, not like it at all.)

Eeep. I sure hope it's not like that.

[g33kboi.livejournal.com]

Sort of like the literary H1N1!

(or, y'know, not like it at all.)

Eeep. I sure hope it's not like that.

Actually, it's quite like that. At first it just seems like a mildly infectious little read and you don't think much about carrying it to work with you and reading it on your lunch break. And then before you know it, Blammo! It completely floors you and you're calling in sick to work because you stayed up all night reading it. Of course by then, it was too late. I had already given it to my parents. Considering how many cons they go to, well, I'm afraid there may be no containing it at this point.

I didn't actually call in sick to work, but I did stay up quite late reading it. It's fabulous and I plan on giving it to a couple of friends for the holidaze.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but when I had H1N1, all I was thinking was how I didn't want to give it to people. When I was capable of thinking at all, really. ;-)

Now F&F, I'd not mind if it did sweep out like a happy lovey edition of a virulent plague. (Okay, I'd not mind that of several books offhand, but still...)

[lagilman]

and that is why you are Evil Minion #1.

:-D

I really need to get you a t-shirt.

[blitheringpooks.livejournal.com]

I've already spread word through facebook, and since I'm carrying it with me everywhere I go, have also spread word to my internist, my gyn (both readers), my niece, a stranger at Panera Bread Company, and anybody else who sees a book and asks, "Oooh, what is it?"

[lagilman]

heh. You deserve a cookie. And maybe a teaser from Book 2...

[saladinahmed.livejournal.com]

FYI, F&F is one of the few novels that has thus far garnered multiple votes according the 'running tally' part of SFWA's Nebula forums -- though this is not immediately apparent, since there were apparently discrepant spellings of your name.

And, in case you're wondering, yes, your "hitting a dead horse in the nuts with a baseball bat' smiley is working...

Go you!

[e-booklover.livejournal.com]

I read, I liked, I have questions and I am awaiting answers to in the next book :). I pushed it too :D

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

My BGF read it when she was here last week. She was quite pleased with the concept and will probably buy the second one when it comes out. She was quite niggled with me for not telling her that it was book 1 in a trilogy and that books 2 & 3 were not available yet. She doesn't read much fantasy and doesn't like the idea of not wrapping up the threads at the end of every book. But she did think it was fab.