Right now I’m plugging away at a novelette for one of my best customers. I doubt it will be published; it’s just one he likes and he hangs onto the files. It’s genre work, so it doesn’t take a lot of thought, just letting the characters and situations just fall into place.
Been pissing people off this week, or should I say, pissing off a few people. Every once in a while this happens, and the mean or limited people go away and leave me alone.
Officially, the causes for this weeks peel-offs have been my saying that copies of originals are aways bad, and hinting to a reviewer that authors and artists are brides, and editors, publishers, and reviewers are yentas. I’ve been a yenta plenty of times — I write reviews, too — but I don’t mistake myself for the girl on her wedding day when all I was, was the wrinkled old matchmaker.
I sent a bookstore owner ballistic when I said that, while I loved old-style bookstores, the author came first, and if he or she could find all kinds of ways to sell what they did, the bookstores that cooperated would be the ones to survive. He lost his mind.
It may be part of the old stable-master syndrome, when a publisher or even an APA editor thought they were in charge of the little tame artist.
Damn. And all we wanna do is draw and write our stuff.
Ms Barr, may I finally tell you what brilliance you have shared with us, the plebian readership. Love your work, have for years and am utterly thrilled you are on the web with this so-fun story. :) Keep it up nad keep having fun. What a delicious life! :)
I’m so glad you like the work.! And again, to give full credit, Dave Baxter, one of my bit fans and a brilliant programmer, is building the entire structure for this website. He’s hard-working, detail-minded, and fearless!
We plan to do this with Stinz, too, then AFTERDEAD, and then new stuff!