http://www.janefancher.com/TheCaptainAndLime/
She’s been doing a hysterical rundown on the woes during my absence and later—
70,000 words…and Jane has a new post.
by CJ | Aug 25, 2009 | Journal | 4 comments
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The Phosban reactor. That’s what powers the Phosban starship, right? 😉
And it coulna take it enny more!
She’s doing a Sheherezade on us. A couple of cliffhangers probably work to get the readers coming back more often – it worked on me; but a teaser-ending every episode is getting to be a bit much. Still it’s interesting to read her views as well as yours, they complement each other. There’s surprisingly little overlap even though I’d expect what’s happening in your lives to have a lot in common, considering you live together.
I’m learning a lot, just following your blogs, about such very diverse subjects as astronomy and spaceships, social structure, genealogy, history and language, saltwater-aquariums, pools, publishing and E-books, and even (from Lynn’s aside) about embroidery- I love it.
I especially like it when you get to explaining how things work, or how things in your books connect. I wish people would ask more of those kinds of questions – I can never think of the right ones myself, but I love reading the ideas and the answers.
By the way, do you still want to know which of your books are available or out of print? I received both The Faded Sun (three-in-one paperback) and Tripoint (hardcover) last week. When I’d tried ordering them a long time ago they were out of print, so maybe your reminders to the publishers to keep them in print or give you back the rights made them re-issue.
Tripoint reminds me of Merchanter’s Luck, but will be easier to reread regularly because Tom’s situation is (to me) less overwhelming than Sandor’s loneliness – your writing always packs a punch and I need to be well-grounded emotionally to be able to handle that book. I’m very much enjoying my ‘new’ Cherryh books, and looking forward to Closed Circle for more.
I was real happy when the American Book Centre in Amsterdam started a service to buy secondhand books, so I could finally get those out-of-print books I’d been wanting for years, but I’ve stopped ordering yours that way after reading this blog: I’ll wait for you to get them into Closed Circle yourselves. I’d just never thought about the authors not getting paid for the secondhand books.
Jane’s done her best to keep it light, and to keep the household (and me) on even keel.
I know we’d have lost the tank if she hadn’t investigated and done all the right things, and all her communications to me while I was down in Dallas were so-innocent little questions like “I need to adjust the salt level a little—how?” And “I did a pretty good water change.” “I did a little cleaning.” Translation: The main pump failed and I took the whole sump apart.
What she *wasn’t* telling me was, indeed, a daily catalog of cascading disasters with the tank. When one thing goes wrong with that system, it will trigger other things, and when what you first spot is a symptom and not the root cause, you can climb the chain of events quite a ways before you get it all fixed.
We were dealing with the aftershocks for half a week after I got home. Not to mention what she didn’t say: I, CJ, helpfully broke the still-good mh light trying to get it out of its socket.