Nov. 8th, 2007

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There is a descriptive word which is gendered in some English dialects and not in others. I tend to use it as gendered, especially when gender is actually relevant to the context. So I'm not quite sure what the following passage is going to look like when my American publisher's editing and proof-reading team get through with it...

Bob smirked unsympathetically. "So you hired a bright young scientist for his technical ability; but you couldn't resist having a bit of fun with the fact that he _looks_ like a male version of the fluffy little blonde hired for her chest measurement and not her typing speed. And then the game turned real on you."

"And fluffy little blonds aren't even my type!"

"I know." Bob gave him an evil grin. "That's what makes it so funny."


ETA: It's a good thing that post and comment thread was a mostly serious discussion of a point of language, because my publisher *answered* it...
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My site logs often offer interesting little snippets of information. Apart from the usual collection of strange search strings, this week's log has the first appearance of the iPhone browser. Yes, someone out there was looking at my website on their iPhone, and not just the front page.

I've also seen the occasional Symbian phone (mostly Nokias). If this turns into a trend, I'm going to have to think about catering to the mobile phone users, even if it's just offering a selection of the free short stories in a format they find easy to use. Any of you smartphone users got an opinion on this? [livejournal.com profile] rpdom?

ETA: Don't think I can really slant the website design itself towards phone users (especially as it's already heavily biased towards accessibility for disabled readers), but if there's anything on my site that causes serious problems for phone users, speak up. As an example, the free shorts (beware of the gay smut) index page is here:
http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/downloads.html
and the book reviews, con reports and essays (mostly work-safe) are here:
http://www.julesjones.com/misc/misc.html
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Loose Id has released another batch of books at Fictionwise, including Lord and Master -- with a 15% discount in the first week:
http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook52418.htm

It's also at All Romance ebooks, though no discount:
http://allromanceebooks.com/product-lordandmaster-4881-0.html

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