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[julesjones]

Today's highlight from my flist: damned fine rant by anghara on the subject of literary snobbery regarding fantasy. What she said, with bells on.

Trawled my way through a large chunk of catching up on paperwork yesterday. This morning was combined cat-vacuuming and writing up notes for alg which I finished and sent off about half an hour ago. At this point what I should really do is go for a nice walk, ideally to post off the signed cover art print to the winner from the Romance Junkies competition on Delurk Day, but it is raining, and has been all day. I have already emailed the book, so it's not as if the prize is going englected, and I am not *quite* feeling the lack of exercise enough to walk fifteen minutes each way in weather that is doing its very best to remind me of home.

Failing that what I should really do is some work, either tackling short story subs or getting some words down on disk, but I feel sufficiently fuzzy that it would probably not be cat-vacuuming to go and do some housework. I need the exercise. Pity there isn't actually a lot of housework that needs doing right now.

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

Yes. So there's these three goddesses have a beauty competition, and the winner gets the loveliest woman in the world, but she's already married to a king so there's a ten years' war and then they make a huge model of a horse.... go and discuss it in the corner with the other fantasy freaks, dear.

[julesjones]

Snerk. I thought there'd be one or two people reading my LJ who might appreciate the rant. :-)

And LJ just ate my last post of the day in which I said something about finding another potential market for the sidhe short story, and would send that off tomorrow before getting back to writing again. I've had to take an extended break, so the next bit of words-on-disk will be on something I've already effectively sold, just so I've something for release later this year. After that it's the rewrite of those first three chapters of Journey Into Freedom, so that I can start sending out a synopsis-and-three-chapters that look less like it started life as a porn novel. I'm not wasting the day I spent in Ipswich library researching UK agents that might take it. :-)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh, good luck with Journey! On a litfic list which was recently discussing hard-to-place books, I mentioned a brief plotline and was inundated with people asking "where in hell can I read THAT?"....

[julesjones]

Well, that sounds hopeful. :-) If nothing else, I know where to find beta-readers for the rewrite.

The profic version of Pulling Strings has picked up a couple of reviews now. Both of them mention liking the overt political plot it acquired as part of the extra 20,000 words of backstory added when filing serial numbers. Same thing happened with Mindscan, nee Polyiterophilia. There's definitely a market for this sort of thing, although whether it's a big enough market to sustain a print edition is another question.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Incorporating Writing's current issue has some good articles about the perception of genre writing - good reviews too.