her site is <----------- over there on the sidebar. ;) And go buy her books!
Today is Lynn's birthday!
by CJ | Sep 18, 2010 | Journal | 13 comments
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Done that a lot in paper!
Side question. I’m very happy to hear about the Foreigner renewal (what happened to I before E? I know, I know). On the assumption that this is about one book a year due to publishing constraints (is this false? Do tell!), how much free writing time do you have?
(Asimov wrote about ten books a year by his count, recycling short stories probably multiple times; Patrick O’Brian was about one book a year, and I remember the tension of the wait!)
Do you have room in your schedule for other books?)
I managed 2 1/2 books a year when books were shorter, at 80,000 words. Now rather less, since they bumped book size/complexity up to 120,000 or more. Uncle Ike did most of his writing in the 80,000 range. O’Brian’s run toward the 100,000 mark, mostly.
I concentrate quite hard on a single book at a time, so there’s rarely a time that I can squeeze something else in.
But you raise an interesting question and one I’ve been thinking about: there’s a type of story that lends itself to the 80,000 word length, and it’s possible I could manage to meet contractual obligations for DAW and still have a little sanity left over for an off-schedule 80,000 worder. The NY market can’t handle those at the present time. But CC can.
Felicitations! Bonne anniversaire à elle!
I before E is really simple. Here’s the full rhyme:
I before E,
Except after C,
Or when sounded as AY,
As in neighbor and weigh.
(And reign, foreign, sovereign, etc., by the way. Also either/neither, which are EE or IGH, depending on preferences.)
And weird is wEIrd. 😉
are those eig words (eight too) from the french?
That one’s from Anglosaxon, originally spelled wyrd. I don’t know what spelling revision got it to the ei.
Um, apropos of not much, I just bought the Ring trilogy from Jane, and I haven’t done Paypal in a while — I was waiting for another screen to come up to put in who the lolly went to when I realized there was another little link saying “instructions to author.” It was too late by then. Could you arrange for her to get it? Thanks a bunch!! (Sorry, now I’ll know for next time.) PS -re: the free sample — geez, talk about leaving us at a cliffhanger! 🙂
😆 thanks, I’ll do that!
Thank! Um, I’m not sure how you deal with this sort of thing, but I was only able to download the Rings of Destiny file. The first two appear to be broken links. On the iPad anyway — they’re only blue and underlined to the php? part, the rest of the link is black and unclickable. They “look” fine on my iMac, but I’ve got dial-up and can’t download files that big. I’ll try the links again at work tomorrow, but I won’t be in until very nearly the end of the 24 hour grace period, so I may have to contact you (or Jane?) again at that point. How should I do that, if it turns out to be necessary? Thanks and sorry for the trouble!
Very easy. E-mail us right now as authors@closed-circle.net and we will give you new file codes. I take it you want the minime downloads? State that in your e-mail, and we will get those fixed asap.
etymology on line
reign – early 13c., “kingdom,” from O.Fr. reigne .. so there seems to be an old french root for the eign words, but eight is just a modern spelling of a word with an anglo-saxon root, same as fight.
I should say, a MORE modern spelling …..
Belated happy birthday greetings to Lynn. Does she check out your blog?
I will have to go to her site and post this there as well.