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February 29, go!
I went down to return some books to my father last week, and came back with my twin sized foam mattress to make daybed seating on the short side of the loft and a native rescue azalea. While there, I asked if my parents were aware that RA MacAvoy had a new book out, to which my father asked if I was aware that his brother had dated RA MacAvoy in high school. (and here I was still vaguely proud of myself for recognizing her as the Bertie MacAvoy mentioned in passing in Making Book)
The old bedroom is now set up as an interim library, and I've spent large amounts of the last few days running up and down stairs transporting large stacks of books. I may have slightly underestimated the amount of hardback fiction we owned, but it does (just barely) all fit on the giant shelf with the Pratchett double-stacked in its own cubby and my picture books filling the bottom row. (Yes, I have six linear feet of picture books... my mother used to be a children's librarian.) Grauwulf came up last night and found me sitting in the middle of the floor, momentarily distracted by The Nargun and the Stars, and said that this was me in my natural habitat: surrounded by books.
Also, I have now got two versions of Chapter 1, one of which includes a Jessamine who (pretends to think/) thinks she's a princess in disguise, and the other an Alisoun who's full of wild plans for how she's going to marry the prince. I'm considering renaming the dead princess (who, um... becomes important to book five, sigh) in the Alisoun version from Joellein to Jessamine, because I can. Evaluation to follow on which one of these chapters I'm actually keeping. Stupid beginnings.
On the subject of revisions, or was that goals... I've always wanted to do something terribly exciting for leap day, and never come up with anything good, so that is the day I'm going to send out a query so my top-choice agent can tell me she's not interested in this. (At some point I should also do some research into finding other agents I want to query...)
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The old bedroom is now set up as an interim library, and I've spent large amounts of the last few days running up and down stairs transporting large stacks of books. I may have slightly underestimated the amount of hardback fiction we owned, but it does (just barely) all fit on the giant shelf with the Pratchett double-stacked in its own cubby and my picture books filling the bottom row. (Yes, I have six linear feet of picture books... my mother used to be a children's librarian.) Grauwulf came up last night and found me sitting in the middle of the floor, momentarily distracted by The Nargun and the Stars, and said that this was me in my natural habitat: surrounded by books.
Also, I have now got two versions of Chapter 1, one of which includes a Jessamine who (pretends to think/) thinks she's a princess in disguise, and the other an Alisoun who's full of wild plans for how she's going to marry the prince. I'm considering renaming the dead princess (who, um... becomes important to book five, sigh) in the Alisoun version from Joellein to Jessamine, because I can. Evaluation to follow on which one of these chapters I'm actually keeping. Stupid beginnings.
On the subject of revisions, or was that goals... I've always wanted to do something terribly exciting for leap day, and never come up with anything good, so that is the day I'm going to send out a query so my top-choice agent can tell me she's not interested in this. (At some point I should also do some research into finding other agents I want to query...)
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