Sex and shopping

[julesjones]

There have been no word count reports, because I have been revising rather than composing. I finished the revision work on Dolphin Dreams and sent it off to my editor this afternoon. It will doubtless need still more work done on it, but the next bit of writing work is likely to be looking at her edits on Lord and Master. It's either that or I start work on the next book in the Buildup series.

I have not been working on books all the time. Far from it...

dougs came over on Friday and took watervole, predatrix and self into Bournemouth for a day's shopping and gossip. As noted in dougs's LJ, we started by frightening the mundanes in the Waterstones cafe, and the conversation went downhill from there.

Much shopping happened, both window and otherwise. Bookshops featured... Interesting to see that Borders had a massive sf/fantasy section, with a lot of import books (including the Tor paperbacks of 1 and 2 of The Family Trade). Oddly, they had the Coldfire trilogy in both the new Orbit trade paperback edition, and in the Daw import edition. I promptly pimped it at watervole.

Clothes shopping also happened. I amused at least two sales clerks with my habit of visiting certain shops regularly every Christmas trip home to the UK to pick up the sort of clothes they stock. (Marks & Spencer, and Uptown Girl, just in case anyone was thinking along more exotic lines.)

And then we went to the sex shops. Both of them, although Clone Zone is the one that gets a name check in Dolphin Dreams, and is thus the one that provides me with an excuse to claim the outing as research. It is such fun to be able to put down visiting a sex shop as a tax-deductible expense, and do so quite honestly. :->

We must have been almost shopped out, because on Saturday watervole and I went into Poole to put predatrix on the train home, and only did an hour or so's shopping afterwards -- and that was mostly planned shopping that hadn't happened the day before owing to lack of time. A related bra thread may appear on afp in due course. We got home by lunchtime, and were good and worked on writing for much of the afternoon. Deadlines are wonderful for concentrating the mind...

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Fay Weldon got money from Bulgari's for namechecking them in a novel... maybe you should see what sex shops will do for an ad!

[julesjones]

watervole suggestion was "stocking the book". I had to remind her that this will not be possible unless it comes out in print as well as ebook.

Which reminds me, I must post on the fanfic LJ to ask if anyone would be interested in buying a signed-by-both-authors copy of The Syndicate, should such be made available at Redemption.