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handful_ofdust ([personal profile] handful_ofdust) wrote2010-04-29 05:51 pm
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Fine Book of Tongues review from Sean McLachlan, aka MidListWriter on Blogspot, here (http://midlistwriter.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-book-of-tongues.html). Being a Civil War buff and historian, he rightly points out my blood-drunk gay porno horse opera is riddled with historical inaccuracies; in my defense, I can only claim that I did actually write a whole Apologia pointing this same sad fact out in fair detail, which hopefully will eventually work itself into the paperback version.;)

Otherwise, am now very securely in that floaty, drunken-feeling portion of the Day After the (Mainly Sleepless) Night Before. Still hammering here and there on "The Shrines". I guess I'll just go on that way 'til I fall over; usually works.
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[identity profile] lanerobins.livejournal.com 2010-04-29 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm reading it now. So far, I'm loving it. You have an amazing way with language. I showed it to my writers' group and there's a clamour for who gets it next.
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[personal profile] baggyeyes 2010-04-30 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Just wait until they meet Yancey. That's an altogether different cookie.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you're likin' her. And I swear to God, I'm almost done Chapter Four--almost.

[identity profile] lanerobins.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Is Yancey in the next book?

(Anonymous) 2010-04-30 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
She is! I really felt it was imperative for his own development to introduce Chess to at least one woman he couldn't just dismiss as a bitch or a whore. Of course, later on, I'm going to sucker-punch him with at least two more...

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That was me, obviously. Or...not so.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Just saw you were doing that on your I-pick-up-bones post--very cool, BTW--and had to shake myself, I was grinning so hard!

[identity profile] lanerobins.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw man, stayed up way too late to finish it last night and am now staring at my own manuscript with a cold and unfavorable eye. Doesn't help that Tepeyollotl's making a brief appearance in it.

Great book, Gemma. Can't wait for the next one. :)

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2010-04-30 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! And thank you very much...now I know you're waiting, it'll make me work a little faster.
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