handy tip i'll try to remember..

i just stumbled across this on romancedivas, and I'm bound to loose where I read it, hence posting here....
[original post: http://www.romancedivas.com/divaforum/index.php?showtopic=7747&st=0&gopid=101983&#entry101983 ]

Kristen said...

Changing telling to showing isn't always that easy but in this case, the "felt" made it telling. You were telling us what she was feeling instead of just showing us by putting us right in the action. It's not always so simple.Sometimes you need more of a rewrite to accomplish this.

Example:Jeff's response made Sarah mad. (Shallow POV)

Rewrite: Sarah's jaw tightened in response to Jeff's comment. How dare he accuse her of lying? (Deep POV)

Do you see the difference? Often deep POV requires more writing in general, more elaboration of what's going on and often includes internals (How dare he accuse her of lying?) That puts us directly into the character's head.I hope that helps.

Here are some words to look for that take us out of deep POV (I'm sure this isn't a complete list so I'm betting others will add to it.) However, there will be times when you need to use one of these words - writing is not an absolute! There are exceptions to every rule.
Felt/feel
Heard
Listened
Realized
Thought
Decided
Wondered

...and Amanda Brice said...

"I'd add "knew" to that"

Yay for Kim - Again!! LOL

Okay so NO this is not the actual cover LOL

But Kim has SOLD again! hehe "To Summon a Demon" is a fantastic short story, and it's coming soon from Samhain - yay! :D

To catch the latest - and see when the actual cover is produced - go and visit Kim's blog http://romancefiction.blogspot.com

It's generally worth a visit, anyway LOL

Yay for Jenn!

Jenn's book 'Dragon's Birth' is one of the highest rated books on fictionwise!!!

Take a Look!!
here
Now go buy a copy!! :-D
here!

You can also buy direct from Samhain Publishing... :-)

progress update

squeee just went to update my progress bar, thinking that I'd have to decide how long the vampire story is going to be, and it's already there! So I'm 1/4 of the way though! LOL of course, the last 3k or so are ranting dialogue, written while I have a cold, so likely aren't worth counting, but still... :)

Meanwhile, on lulu, Abacus gets nice reviews no hits and no purchases, and my wonderful *cough* freeby that is Genie...

Genie: 139 hits, 4 reviews, 37 downloads and no sales rank.
The reviews average 5.5, which is good, although I have to say likely biased [no comment] :-)

OK! On to monday... *wince*

Oh Looki there's a Wiki!

I like the idea of this :-)

On Vampires

No, not *on* vampires, silly.

Thing is, I'm trying to write this vampire story. Was all going swimmingly, until I got to the point where I wanted my H. to suggest checking their.... and there I ran out of words, because the word I needed was 'the piece of the anatomy by which they absorb blood'.

So, off I went, googling, and to be honest it looks like I can make up anything I want LOL

I know, I *know*, it's fiction so of *course* I can make up anything I want, but I thought I'd try to stick with some sort of tradition. Thing is, reading the internet...

• Vampires can breath. Or they can't.
• Vampires have circulation. Or they don't.
• Vampires can walk in sunlight. Or they can't.
• Vampires have pale complexions. Or ruddy.

The list goes on. About the only thing that's common is that they have some kind of dependency upon humans in order to stay alive. To be honest, in there isn't even 100% agreement that this is through blood, but I think I'd better stick with that one. After all, the aim is a vampire story, not someone who has to drink other people's spittle to survive.

So. I need to make up my own vampire theory. This is going to change any way I like, in order to fit my story, so there. I'm going to try for rule, then reason. Wish me luck...

They are cold to touch. This poses problems, because they also move really fast and heal rapidly. See, if they're cold because they have slow circulation, it stands to reason they'd be sluggish, too, doesn't it? So. Let's say instead that their biology is super-efficient. In other words, when they need to heal, brain says 'fix that bit!' and energy rushes off to the injury in question, but the rest of the time, skin is pretty low on the priority list, so stays cold.

Vampires live for ages. Well, we age because of radiation from the sun and stuff, right? And vampires don't go out in the sun, do they? Need to make that a bit more convincing... You know how things look a colour not because they are that colour, but because they absorb all light that *isnt* that colour? Well maybe we absorb radiation but Vampires reflect it... wow, they'd be really good on a hot day, wouldn't they? No, this isn't working.

Right. We absorb radiation from what we consume, breathe in and stuff, too.
If radiation is like other biotoxins, blood is going to be *more* radioactive than the stuff that the bloody creature has consumed.

So why would a vampire eat blood?

Let's say vampires have a nifty way of *dispersing* the blood's radiation. But this takes quite a bit of physcial energy to do. Let's say a *lot*. In other words, when a vampire's de-radiating, s/he's pretty much out for the count.

Therefore, they won't want to eat anything that's too tricky to digest, or the energy gained from eating would be lost by de-radiating it.

So let's say vampires eat blood because its the rice and chicken of the mortal world. No allergies, no indigestion, and the shortest turnaround in digestive terms.

But UV raditation is like *all over*. Their body's would probably go into shutdown, just trying to process the stuff, and they're not gaining any energy from it, either. Plus it's not controlled - it's not all sitting tidily in their stomach, it's hitting them from all directions.

So what's the conclusion. Vampires have a nifty method of removing radiation from their systems but it's a big power drain and sunlight would likely kill them off. This explains 1. Why they like blood - because it's pretty much pure energy and not much extra digestive energy needed. and 2. why they don't like sunlight. and 3. why I'm going to have to make my Vamp.'s drowsey after eating LOL

Silver is bad. In the case of my story, it's also bad for my h., who for the sake of *fiction* I've given mild argyria. I don't want to take this too lightly, and here's why:
http://homepages.together.net/~rjstan/rose2.html
www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

Colloidal Silver is dodgy stuff, people. Be wary.

Anyway, the reason I've used it in the story is down to the whole vampire/silver thing. Why might silver trigger such a fatal reaction in vampires? I've no idea. I do know that it has anti-biotic and anti-enzyme properties. Since this is fiction, I might put the radiation-dispersal down to a unique enzyme or something, I suppose? I am going to need biological advice on this, I think. Still, I'll keep writing.

More theories to be added as I need them...

:)

grumble

There's a book I probably won't buy, called A Dark Champion, by Kinley McGregor.

It's available through fictionwise for $5.99 or $5.09 for club members. (£3.44 to £2.92)
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook36868.htm

It's also available from harper collins US, for $4.79, which translates to about £2.75
http://us.perfectbound.com/210FCA60-2106-496E-B8C6-28EF75EF52FD/10/1/en/eBookDetails.htm?ID=E88647A2-32D6-4109-B729-D4A7168E184C

(not too sure if that link is going to work. anyway)

It is also available from harper collins UK for £6.39

HELLO???

The paperback is also available from amazon UK for £3.44

I repeat: HELLO? HARPER COLLINS UK?? WAKE UP PLEASE!

To do: gain brain

So the thing is, this blog...
http://www.bagandbaggage.com/
...goes completely over my head, but it's linking to places I've stumbled across before...
(most notably... http://craphound.com/ and http://citmedia.org/blog/ ) ... and I'm thinking one day I might wake up with a brain big enough to appreciate what I'm looking at, so here it is, logged for prosperity...

...meanwhile, that google thing? Writely? There's another one (found through one of the above blogs) - http://www.ajaxwrite.com/

A bit slow on the uptake, maybe...

I know I know, I'm slow. Sorry.
Just in case there is *anyone* out there less slow than me, there's this really cool thing on lulu...
http://www.lulu.com/titlescorer/
... put in your title, select some options and see what the chances are that it's going to be a bestseller. Handy or what? hehe

Also, google has just taken over this really cool thing:
http://www.writely.com/
..as a result, you can't sign up for a new account, but you can put your email address down to be notified when you can. Worth looking at, I think - I particularly liked the backup line...

Urhghgh

So, long story but I had 40 minutes sleep last night. Yep, bed at 5:30, alarm at 6:10. yay. I then had to catch a bus which I swear to God used to come once an hour, but now comes once every two hours and let me tell you one hour forty-five minutes is a LONG time to wait in winter. What's that? First day of spring? Pah!

Anyway, back at my desk and unable to concentrate due to shivering, I toddle over to http://www.technorati.com to see how well word is spreading about my published writing buddies - answer: great if you're *not* looking for a full name! SO, for the benefit of mankind, here are some links to the blogs of:

Author Kim Rees, AKA Kim Knox
http://romancefiction.blogspot.com

Author Jennie Andrus, AKA Jen Andrus
http://jennieotn.blogspot.com/

And website for Merris Hawk,
http://merrishawk.batcave.net/

and Aline de Chevigny
http://www.alinedechevigny.com

Meanwhile, Enchanted Ramblings is doing pretty well, mostly cuz people seem to quite like the reviews ;-) Yay ;)
http://www.enchantedramblings.net

lulu update

almost forgot..

Genie: 110 / 30 / 3 / ?
Abacus: 81 / 1 / 2 / 22,226

Autiotalo wrote Abacus a *marvellous* review, which I have been so proud of I've pasted a bit of it against the main entry. My little page view graph (yes: obsessive here, nice to meet you) is showing a nice little upturn, which I'll credit exclusively to that - so three cheers for Auti, let's hear them! :-D

Just Dreamy

Ever wondered how many books on lulu are called _____ Dreams?

Thought not. Still, it's something to blog about, isn't it? ;-)

Abacus Dreams
by Tee Bee
Description: For Darcy Edwards, time is running out. He has ten days to find True Love, and the latest mystic tip says that she is waiting in a gallery, somewhere in London. All he has to do now is find her, fall in love and convince her to marry him before Day 100 comes rolling in...

African Dreams
by Linda Goodrow
Description: Africa - The very word evokes feelings of mystery, the exotic and even a sense of romance. I was off on the trip of a lifetime, my dream trip, the one I never thought would really come true. But come true it did, and it was more than I could ever have imagined or hoped for. Come on a photographic tour through Eastern Africa and share my dream.

CALICO DREAMS by Bev Haynes
by Bev Haynes
Description: A mysterious inheritance could be the answer to JANUARY MOHR’S dreams, but the mystery, the startling handsome man, BARRY COTTIER, who doesn’t want her there, and the calico clad GHOST may turn her dream into a nightmare.

Carnival Dreams
by Chris Goode
Description: A story of lessons given to young children by their ancestors, their great grandparents, in a fun fairy tale setting. An 8-year old girl falls asleep at Midnight Mass on Christmas eve, sending her into a carnival dream, where she looks for God, who is lost at the carnival. She finds that God is created in acts of goodness and from noticing the acts of goodness by others. During her search, she meets up with personifications of her great grandparents,
who give her clues hidden in their actions. This is a fun children's story, where there is little conflict - a fun, safe journey taken by young children with a unique message regarding creationism - that we create God - and that we are created by our ancestors.

Christmas Dreams
by Michael Wolf
Description: A story of Christmas magic.

Corvus Dreams
by Anna Hoffman
Description: A journey in the place between belief, cynicism, God, crows and dreams

Dachshund Dreams
by Deb Iten
Description: Dachshund Dreams follows fours dachshunds: Roo, Drake, Jaz and Star from the fun, frolicking days of being puppies with big dreams to adulthood having learned the answers to some very difficult questions about life. What they find is that life is like a big bowl of Kibbles 'n Bits...YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET!

Dark Dreams
by Christina Sng
Description: A collection of beautiful and disturbing poetry from authoress Christina Sng.

Eclectic Dreams
by H. David Blalock
Description: Stories of horror, wonder, and awe with looks at the first three books of the Thran Chronicles.

Faberge Dreams
by Jessica Sesto

Fading Dreams
by Thomas Warner
Description: Poetry Of loves lost and Found

Fish Dreams
by Dean Larsen
Description: Fish Dreams is a book of interest for both the child and parent. It is filled with beautiful artwork, a fun storyline, and detailed artist information. Many pages incorporate classical art from masters like Monet, Renoir, Degas, and others. Our story begins with fish pals Billy and Dewey coming to realize that life in a small pond has its limits. In their dreams though, they can go anywhere! Each dream finds them in beautiful, classical artwork. In concluding their exciting adventure, they both recognize that although they had fun, it is good to be home. Classical artwork, cartoon fish, clever rhymes, and interesting artist information add up to a book that both the parent and child can enjoy over and over again!

NASCAR dreams
by Edward B Moyer
Description: Follow Rob O'Neal during his rookie season in NASCAR's top racing series

Opium Dreams
by Klaus Gerken
Description: The latest book of poems by Klaus J. Gerken

Orphilion Dreams
by Jeanne Allen
Description: (Previously released under the title: THE MOST DARING DREAMS)
Thor, pilot of a space transport ship, and Helena, a medical scientist, are brought together by fate during a perilous rescue mission to one of Jupiter’s moons. They become dangerously drawn to one another, even though government law prohibits their Orphilion romance…under penalty of death. For the chance to follow their hearts, they must lead in a dangerous revolt.
With LARGE PRINT for low eye stress and easy reading.

Perfect Dreams
by Alvita Hobby
Description: Michelle was looking for what she once had in her life. A good man and a better life all together. But she was already married and settled in her life that she had now. But what she did not know was that she had both a wedding and a funeral to go to and there she would find the man of her dreams and the life style that she was looking for.

Polynesian Dreams
by Johan Van Oldenbarneveld
Description: Told in his own words and thaos of his spirit guide, you will find a treasure of wisdom in the so-called insights that are told to him by Hendrik, the name Johan gave his guide. You will go to World War II occupied Holland, to Johan's service in the Dutch Royal Navy, the Dutch Merchant Navy, and his service as a criminal investigator in the American Army. It is a page turner and it will give you an insight in your own problem situations.

Remembering Dreams
by Richard James
Description: 'Remembering Dreams' is the first ever collection of poems by Australian poet Richard James. It was first published in 2000 under his full name Richard James van der Draaij. This is the second revised edition. A superb read to enthrall, enlighten and uplift.

SHATTERED DREAMS
by GRETCHEN MALDONIS
Description: A YOUNG GIRL DREAMS OF A LIFE FILLED WITH LOVE BUT FINDS OUT THAT HER HUSBAND IS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A MAN.

Sophomoric Dreams
by Christopher Mastronardi
Description: At the start of high school in the humble suburb of Fairfield, CT: Mike has dreams. While spending days with good friends and young wit, he longingly reaches for his ultimate obtainable, romance; a high school sweetheart. But his childhood friend Dillion, an unpredictable manic depressive, has other ideas. As Dillion attempts to win a town-wide war against the morally corrupt Elliot, Mike strives to balance friendship's loyalty against the thin
scales of suburban normality, and in doing so finds out not everything is peachy easy in this ocean-side town of promised designs.

Suicide Dreams
by Tamar Marsh
Description: A captivating book of poetry that travels from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other. Every word will stay with you long after the last page is read.

Tuscan Dreams
by George Nitti
Description: 50 poems inspired by self reflection and the Tuscan landscape

Winter Dreams
by David L. Ruggeri
Description: Short stories with a slightly offbeat twist. Real life gone awry, ghosts real and imagined. The things of which winter dreams are made.

oysters and beer

Here I go again.
So, I've recently read Sex, Lies and Online Dating by Rachel Gibson, and Simply Irresistable by Lucynder Storey.
Both feature a literary type (first example: writer, second example: english teacher) who meet a hunky coppy during a crime investigation, with which they are inextricably involved.
I confess I don't read a lot of contemporary fiction, and thought that the whole nice-girl-hunky-copper thing was a standard fantasy. However, turns out true life (assuming this is that) can be more entertaining than fiction... oysters and beer

POD-dy Mouth

And another...
POD-dy Mouth
"Wading through the sea of Print-on-Demand titles, one overpriced paperback at a time--and giving you the buried treasure."


See? Addicted.

Writer Unboxed

Found this while surfing...
Writer Unboxed

...I am aware that I might be getting an addiction to the "blogthis!" link... hmmmm

The Word

Cool! Just found out Alan Baxter (an Australian, from the UK Writers group on Lulu - don't ask)... has a blog!!
Yay, gotta love that! :-D

The Word

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I've almost recovered from weekend.

Installed something called Hello http://www.hello.com/ from Picassa, hence the cover thumbnails on the right, there. A bit fiddly (trying to be far too user friendly for its own good, I think), but it works, so I won't grumble :)

Just found a headless mouse by my desk. Ah, the joys of cat ownership. Still, she hasn't broken the washing machine yet, so she still has fractionally more brownie points than the dog.
Mind you: I haven't found the head, yet. If I'm sitting on it, she can have tripe for supper, too.

And finally, my Lulu.com daily totals:
Abacus: 77 / 1 / 2 / 22,054
Genie: 107 / 29 / 3 /0

I think I'm going to have to see about getting Abacus reviewed elsewhere, just to up it's 'visibility'. Please let me know if you'd like to have a free copy of Abacus - I'll be very happy to give you a copy in exchange for a (lovely or otherwise) review - on or off Lulu ;-)

[a while later]
Hmmm... that might be trickier than it first appears... for example,
www.allreaders.com, which says "if you're an author and want to sell or simply get your book read, our service is the best way to do it." ALSO says "Please, no more reviews of horror, short stories, ebooks, or books under 150 pages in length "

Rats.

Zzzzzzzzzzz

it was a long weekend...

Lulu
www.lulu.com/teebee/
Abacus: 75 / 1 / 2 / 21,915
Genie: 105 / 29 / 3 / ?

Will endevour to find brain cell to co-ordinate remaining babble for the day.

Google and ye shall find...

Lookie what I found...
http://merrishawk.batcave.net/

*giggle* now I just need to wait for the tag back... hehe might be some time...

Free Romance Books

...or perhaps I should say: "support self-publishers of free romance".

I was browsing through the 'romance' section of lulu and there are pages and pages of unrated, un-reviewed content. As a reader, I'm pulling out my hair trying to decide if anything is worth downloading. So, ideally ALL the books on lulu would be reviewed and rated, but that probably isn't going to happen. Instead, I'd like to encourage anyone who has a few spare moments to go and review the free downloads, which deserve your ratings, if not your support ;)

Now, thing is, lulu doesn't let you search by price. How annoying is that?

However... Google kind of helps out: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2006-09%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=site%3Abooks.lulu.com+%22Download%3A+%24free%22++%22Fiction+%26+Literature+%3E+Romance%22&btnG=Search&meta=

Plus, since zero-royalty sales don't count as sales, you can browse by sales rank and find all the free stuff at the end - from about here onwards;

http://books.lulu.com/browse/index.php?fCLID=787&fOffset=34

So, using those search results, here are the beginnings of a list. To be added to as and when I have a moment ;)

Classics

• Being Chosen by Lisa Carter Romance Classics : At 15, Grayce finds herself set on a path that will see her go from being the daughter of a farmer to the wife of a King, she barely knows, in a ...
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  Romance Classics : Melodramatic and full of passion, Wuthering Heights ...
• Rain Dropsby Lu Meng

Contemporary

• BENTRIDGE MAGICby Autumn McCullah
• Build My World by Rebecca Abbott Miller Contemporary Romance : Casey Russo was seemingly happy with the life she and her husband CJ had built for themselves in North Carolina, but her life was ...
• Casey's Haven by Autumn McCullah Contemporary Romance : With no family of her own, Casey had worked hard to save for this dream vacation, but now Erik's presence threatened to destroy her stay ...
• Cupid Traps by Anusuya Veth Contemporary Romance : Funny, Sensitive & Heartwarming.
• Daring To Dreamby Autumn McCullah
• Flowers Quickly Fadingby Anthony Barnhart
• Jillian's Escape by Jennifer & Morgan Falk (Book) Contemporary Romance.
• Lawn Furnitureby Judah Rubin
• Morning's Glory by Ann English
• Road To Freedom by Sylvia Hubbard
  Contemporary Romance : Whitney escapes her cruel stepfather's home only to fall into the hands of a man bent on revenge against her stepfather.
• Save Me by Rebecca Abbott Miller Contemporary Romance : The Quintessential Series continues.
• Shattered Deceptions by Autumn McCullah Description: Dani fights to save her marriage and her reputation, but the ...
• Summer's Story by Nancy FamolariSummer's father, a famous horse trainer, is dead. Now she has no home and needs a job, but she has a wonderful horse, Meadow.
• Swept Awayby Jerilee Kaye

Suspense

• Collins Crossing Chapter One by Wallace Williamson Romantic Suspense & Intrigue: A horrific hurricane meanders slowly along the Gulf Coast, churning the ...
• stealing innocence I by Sylvia Hubbard
  Romantic Suspense & Intrigue : in order to keep the inheritance of ...
• Tanner's Devil by Sylvia Hubbard
• Dark Facade by Sylvia Hubbard

Historical Romance (AKA the Payton Lee section hehe)

• 5 Star Affair by Payton Lee Historical Romance : The fairy tale of a general and a war love.
• Bear River Spirit by Payton Lee Historical Romance : Owen Woulfe, a recent widower and Reilly Stewart ...
• Conquer My Heart by Payton Lee Historical Romance : Leticia is a strong willed stubborn woman raised in a
• Difference Didn't Matter: At Least Not to Them by Michelle N. Onuorah Historical Romance: This story centers around two teens; a slave and the master's son ...
• Firedrake of Cumberland by Payton Lee
• Geneva's Branch by Payton Lee Historical Romance.
• Geneva's Force by Payton Lee
  Historical Romance : Book Five in the Geneva Romance Series. Payton Lee delivers the love story of Aurora Blue McGillinen, daughter of Ryan McGillinen of Geneva's...
• Geneva's Hope by Payton Lee
  Historical Romance.
• Geneva's Promise by Payton Lee
  Historical Romance : Breena had a crush on Dwayne McGillinen since childhood. All that must end as she begins a new life in Washington City as assistant to a ...
• Geneva's Return by Payton Lee Historical Romance : Book three in the Geneva Series.
• Smitten by Payton Lee Historical Romance : A handsome Prince seeks life mate.
• True Majik by Sheena Bandy

Futuristic & Fantasy Romance (AKA the Hadnot section)

• Archibald Gardener: The Sparks Fly Upward by Victor Darnell Hadnot
• Archibald Gardener: (Alternate Version)by Victor Darnell Hadnot
• A Brother Of Dragonsby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• DIOS SUENO MAQUINA by Victor Darnell Hadnot
• Dragon Larsby Abiathar Zadok Hadnot III
• Genieby Tee Bee
• Higgaionby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• In Time To Comeby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• The Wheels of God: Alternate Version by Victor Darnell Hadnot
• The Dragon Wellby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• The Harvestmanby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• The Horns Of The Unicornsby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• The Land Shadowing With Wingsby Victor Darnell Hadnot
• WISP: The Sowing Timeby Victor Darnell Hadnot

Other

• The life i got by dena a
  Other Romance Categories : This is a cooky love story.

Ebook Best Sellers 2005

Okay, so I'm a little slow off the mark with this one, but 'check this out':
http://www.idpf.org/bestseller/bestsellers.htm

Upon reading it, I thought 'yeah, yeah, yeah: Dan Brown'. Then I thought: Cool, Douglas Adams. Then I thought: Cool, number 23 is smut.

Then I thought: NUMBER 23 IS SMUT!!

Then I thought: blummin nora! Although the first 20 out of the 30 listed are 'big name publishers', the last 10 include:

No. 23: Office SlaveJ. W. McKenna Renaissance E Books $4.99
No. 28: Fallen AngelsTerence West Double Dragon $5.99
No. 29: PunishedKimberly Zant New Concepts Publishing $3.99

So firstly; wow, of all the epublishers out there, it's the smuthouses that are topping the list.
Secondly, where are Ellora's Cave, Amber Quill, Liquid Silver, etc etc? I mean, Ellora's Cave's absense is what surprised me, really. .. no doubt that's due to the source data, which was apparently from eReader.com, Fictionwise and OverDrive.



Also, how come none of the regency romance I spend a fortune on is showing? huh? huh?

Meandering

Where was I?

Right, Lulu. Apparently there was a Lulu meetup going on today in london. I didn't go, because my dog had a slight 'accident' in the front room, and I've been breaking my back washing the carpet instead. Yay.

Meanwhile,
Genie: 90 / 27 / 3 / ?
Abacus: 55 / 1 / 1 / 21,573

I am feeling bad about Abacus now. I might need to actually promote it, poor thing...


ALSO, I just ran across Neil Gaiman's blog and mention it here because, hey, a name drop is as good as actually knowing someone, right? Or being someone. Or being related to them. *stares into space*
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/

I am a loser!!

LOL Okay, well I'll be a little less harsh on myself: I am not a winner hehe

I pretty much knew I hadn't written dirtily enough, but suffice to say I am not among the talented AQ finalists. Rats: now I have to think of what to do with the story hehe

So what I need is somewhere that will want a short historical based around a ONS. hmmmm.... :)