I must be losing my mind.
First, in the “I do not think it means what you think it means” category:
“OMG! Was that live? Terri! Terri, come here, please. About that word you used when you were describing the President’s love life…
And here’s another video courtesy of Amy Sheldon’s sff.net newsgroup: A Cause Worth Fighting For. A very fun animation that’s also beautifully done. It’s about 8 minutes long, but it’s probably the best show you’ll see today.
Charles H. Schneer passed away yesterday He was 88.
I saw this one in the theater with my father, and I was just the right age for it.
I overslept this morning and missed my writing time. I’ll have to make it up tonight. Also, I’m at the day job. Also, I tweaked my back last night and now I’m walking around the office like igor.
Don’t expect much from me today, thanks.
Agent Jennifer Jackson is conducting an impromptu and unscientific focus group about what sorts of books we’d like to see more of, and what’s wearing thin.
I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see all those folks saying they’re tired of urban fantasy 8 months before mine comes out.
But hey, if you have an opinion, swing over there and post it. Just be sure to read the rules at the top of the page first.
I feel as though I’ve just taken a shower.
Good luck, Mr. President.
Special Unit 2 marathon on Sci-Fi Channel today!
testing, testing
Tomorrow, the associate copy chief at Del Rey will call to review a couple of choices I made on my copy edit. I’d better drop her an email to let her know I wouldn’t mind if she waited until after Obama’s inauguration speech.
Also: testing, testing.
Okay. How about: testing testing.
My copyedited manuscript for Child of Fire goes into the mail today. Yay! I asked my editor to send it to my in-laws’ house, since I’ll be arriving there early on Tuesday. (I also asked her to address it to “Harry ‘Soon to be Wildly Successful’ Connolly” to impress my wife’s parents. I dunno if it’ll work, so cross your fingers for me.)
Weirdly, she tells me that the copyedit is pretty clean. Who would have thought?
I’m currently working on the proposal for book three. I’ve worked out the plot far enough to write it–I just need to keep it short enough that I won’t have to revise it over and over.
This was the part that I didn’t know about:
3: Wal*Mart will demand a higher discount.
Discounts in the US must be offered to all accounts on equal terms, by federal anti-trust law (such as the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936). There was a major lawsuit on that very subject in the 1990s, when the American Booksellers’ Association sued a number of publishers over terms.
That was the only part of his post I didn’t know about, but it makes sense. Check out the rest, though. It’s interesting stuff.