fan mail and word count

[julesjones]

The muttering earlier today about making my email address more obvious on my website was prompted by another author passing on a message to me. Someone had asked her if she knew my email address, because he wanted to tell me how much he'd enjoyed Spindrift, and couldn't find my email on my website. Yes, that's right, he. I've known for a long time that some gay men want romance with their erotica--I know several gay sf fans who are quite open about reading slash fanfic because it gives them the emotional content they can't find in commercial gay erotica. Now I've had a letter from a guy who wanted to say how glad he is that some publishers are starting to publish gay romance, and how much he enjoyed my book.

Fan mail is always nice. But this letter was especially nice to get...

Started writing again after the break after finishing Ship to Shore revision. No word count today, because no actual writing got done, but Alex and I did do some outlining on one of the joint projects. We've got the story arc laid out, and some bits of dialogue for it scribbled down as well. It's far too hot on both sides of the Pond at the moment to really concentrate on writing actual manuscript, but we still managed to do something constructive on the accountant story, and are well pleased. Might prod it a bit tomorrow.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Knew they were out there...

[julesjones]

I mentioned it because I knew there were one or two people reading my LJ who would appreciate that letter just as much as I did. :-)

[niobedancing.livejournal.com]

Be still my heart... Jules and Alex are writing a story about an accountant? I count the hours. Let me know if you need any, you know, accountant terms. :)

[julesjones]

We will bear your kind offer in mind. :-)

The gentleman in question is the POV character's future partner. It's entertaining writing about an accountant who deliberately hides behind the dry-as-dust image to get away with saying terrible things about their mutual boss. "Good afternoon, sir, I hope you drank a good lunch." He has an interesting approach to double entry bookkeeping...

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you wrote gay erotica. Shows how much I'm paying attention.

[julesjones]

I've been writing slash for years, and when I started trying to write pro sf, a lot of it turned out to be more of the same. :-) I've sold several paranormal romance books to an erotic romance publisher, plus a few erotica short stories to various erotica markets. But I think the sales started happening after I abandoned rasf to the politics flame wars, so unless you've been reading rasf.composition in the last year or two you wouldn't have heard about it.

(rasfc hasn't *quite* totally succumbed to the politics flame wars. Yet.)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I just figured I should have checked your journal more often or something. After all you're paying attention to mine.

[julesjones]

I don't feel slighted when people don't read my LJ. Not given my attitude to reading other people's. :-)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm always rather surprised that anyone is reading mine. But I should have been reading yours. I liked you on rasff.

[julesjones]

I started reading yours when I happened across it because you were one of the people I liked on rasff who I didn't see elsenet. And you post stuff that I often find interesting, at a frequency I can handle - I'm not kidding in my userinfo about the RSI.

I'm occasionally tempted to check rasff to see if it's usable nowadays with a well-maintained killfile, but then I decide that I don't need my blood pressure raised. :-)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I think I could stand it, but I'm not fannish anymore.