I meant to link Maureen Johnson’s How To Write A Book when I read it, but it got lost in the whole new contract-work-boy-trip thing. It wasn’t until I read her sequel to it a day or so ago that I realised I’d completely forgotten to link it originally. So here you are:
Maureen Johnson on how to write a book, Part 1 and Part 2.
Justine Larbalestier lays her method out here. (Check the spreadsheet! OMG!)
More authors are leaping on the bandwagon. Stay tuned.
This Saturday, for the first time ever, a local book signing by the elusive author of Power Spellcraft for Life, Solitary Wicca for Life, and The Way of the Green Witch!
Location: Le Melange Magique, 1928 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal (metro Guy), (514) 938-1458
Time: Saturday September 9 2006, 16:00 – 18:00
This is part of the Le Melange Magique’s 15th anniversary celebration weekend, and is going to be an informal meet-and-greet kind of event. I’d love to see you, to thank you for your support, and to finally sign all those copies of my books that people keep saying they’ve been holding on to, hoping for an event just like this!
I’ll be leading a spellcrafting workshop at the store next month too, around mid-October. More details will be available at the signing, and the store will be taking registration for it at that time as well.
See you there!
Naughty books to distract me. Bad.
But I came back:
Total word count, ESTC: 18,093
Total words today: 1,659
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18,093 / 50,000
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So there, evil tempty books.
(Where am I going to shelve the new evil tempty research books? Waaah!)
More books for research have just arrived!
(But not the review copy of the DVD set I’m supposed to be viewing ASAP for fps, which is now over a week late. Gnash.)
I just spent half an hour rearranging my Craft books alphabetically by author, because I couldn’t find something that I needed to reference. Argh.
I kept the herbalism books and the cultural/mythological stuff separate, though, because with those it’s just easier to zero in on the subject and then look for what I need within it.
And I just realised that I have about twenty books piled next to my desk, because I’ve been using them as research for ESTC. I’ll have to try to fit them back onto the main shelves eventually. No wonder there was enough room for everything. I should have known it was all too easy.
Brendan Fraser has signed to play Silvertongue in the upcoming film adaptation of Inkheart!
I may die of happiness. Assuming they do the adapation well, of course. But then, we’re talking about Brendan Fraser, whose presence onscreen can make up for a lot.
I am fairly certain that I am confusing a goodly portion of the universe by ordering pregnancy books. In fact, more pregnancy books are due to arrive here over the next couple of weeks than I ordered when I was pregnant.
This amuses me.
In other news, when the postman rang the bell to hand me a parcel today, Cricket came a-running, warbling her hopes. “Did the boy cats I ordered arrive? Are those the boy cats? Please give me the boy cats!”
I petted her, told her that no, there were no boy cats, and she wandered sadly off to curl up in the laundry basket again. Every now and again she gives a mournful little mew, the kitten equivalent of a doleful sigh.
I am mildly bewildered as to the order in which these books are arriving, however. I ordered four from the same store, and the one that just got here was the last to be shipped out. In fact, when I placed the order it was out of stock, and I was warned that it take three to four weeks to be sent to me. And it’s here first. The books that were in stock that shipped the day before this one are nowhere to be seen yet; they probably won’t arrive till Monday. Everything ships from the same warehouse; everything is coming by the same method. I do not understand our postal system in the least.
Ah, well, I now have one of the books I needed for research, and I’m about a hundred words away from the daily quota, so I think I’ll heat up the chicken wings that are in the fridge and settle down with a highlighter and some sticky notes.
