julesjones

of particular interest to the UK-resident stationery fetishists of rafsc, and probably a few others of you as well:

Announcing a fantastic opportunity to create a mural at Cult Pens HQ using Uni POSCA Markers. Win £1000-worth of POSCA Markers and an expenses-paid trip to beautiful Devon to turn the winning design into reality.

Full details at http://www.cultpens.com/blog/20120525/make-your-mark-at-cult-pens-with-uni-posca/

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back home, with some quality time with my computer for the first time in a couple of weeks. I'm still using Dragon for most stuff, and I'm out of practice from not using it much for three weeks, but I've spent the last hour tagging all my books on Amazon. That's Amazon UK, US, France and Germany. :-)

Apparently it does help if a book has plenty of tags, preferably for more than one person, but any tags at all help. Once the book has been tagged on Amazon, it'll show up on future tag searches. At some point I ought to go and start tagging some of my friends' books as well, but I need to go and practice some things besides copy and paste.

Of course, spending that much time looking at my books' pages on Amazon means getting in a lot of practice at ignoring the one star reviews -- an essential author skill these days. :-)

I probably won't get any work done today on the current manuscripts (unless Predatrix is available to work on the Ipswich story). But I might be able to start catching up on the book log, which has been sorely neglected for the last three months, on account of me being sore.

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On skimming the last few entries on predatrix's LiveJournal, a thought occurred to me: if you wrote a Doctor Who/Sherlock cross-over, you could have a d/s D/S story... (Or indeed an s/m S/M story.)

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Well, re-release of something that's been out of print for a while. Just been given access to my account on Musa's manuscript management database, which has a proposed release date in November for And if I offered thee a bargain. This is just a short story, but given that my last release was in August 2008, I'll be glad to have something coming out this year.

I've had to stop work on writing Taxman because of the RSI (Dragon is not really suitable for writing fiction), but I'm now slowly building up my time on the keyboard, so hoping to get back to that in the next couple of weeks. Definitely not going to have the draft of that finished any time soon, alas, but still hoping to have a finished draft before year's end. On the other hand, if predatrix feels up to working on the Ipswich novelette, that means that I don't have to do the typing on that...

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Received an email late last night to say that Musa's Erato imprint has accepted "And if I offered thee a bargain". :-) With the inevitable editorial caveats, of course... That could be fun, as I don't disagree with the reason for the editing request, but will need to be careful that the necessary fiddling won't throw off other aspects of the story.

Reprint of a 5.5 kword short story, as far as I know to be published as a standalone. No idea at this stage when it'll be released

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Just catching up on my email from last week, and found this in the New Scientist job ad summary email:

Ass Development Specialist
Location: West Yorkshire, England
Salary: Negotiable
We are currently recruiting for a Assay Development Specialist for this diagnostic, West Yorkshire based organisation. Individuals appointed will join the busy research and development team, and will primarily involved in developing a range of new assays

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I've been either completely away from keyboard or only able to grab ten minutes to check my email for most of the last few days, and expect this to continue for another week or so. (Nothing bad, just busy or away from home and without connectivity.) Not ignoring anyone, just not here most of the time.

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Just seen a revised version of the call for subs for one of the markets I submitted to last month -- it now specifies first person (which I'm fairly sure it didn't before), and the piece I submitted was third person. It was borderline anyway, with being slapstick sex comedy as much as anything, but that probably rules it right out.

I do have a first person short of the right length lying around, but that fails on the requirement to have noticeable erotic content within the first few paragraphs. :-)

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Received an email this morning to say that my short story submission to Penumbra had been passed on for the next round for consideration, and that it would be a while before I heard anything further. (They do multiple passes on submissions as they start to firm up the story line-up for the issue.) So at least it was considered a good enough match for what they want to be retained for further consideration. :-)

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Just spotted my original copy of Troublesome Things more or less where it ought to be, on the bookcase that houses my "how to write" books and a selection of tv tie-in reference books. It also has a handful of "to be read" yaoi manga, which is where Troublesome Things was hiding.

I'd blame the brownies tidying up over-enthusiastically, but I can actually see why it ended up there -- there are a couple of other fairy reference books next to it, so that was obviously the overflow from the shelf above. How I did not see it when I was looking for the wretched thing last year I do not know, because I *know* I looked all the way through that bookcase, including on that shelf.

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