Lynn came up with an idea.
This is a good thing.
We need to redevelop our working together and develop an ongoing feature on CC.
You’re going to get the benefit of it.
We’re going to do what all three of us know quite well: a shared universe for us.
Here’s how it came down. We talked on the phone. We thought it sounded great. Then we polled ‘us’ with the question—anybody got a universe? Weelll, Lynn had a spare one. She’d been messing around with the old Acme Idea Generator, and this one fell out. It’s called “Seeking North,” and it’s set on a colonial planet that’s seen hard times.
Jane has a notion.
Lynn has one.
I, heaven help me, have one.
We’re going to have something up come New Year’s. The current way it works is just—it’s free. We don’t know what we’re going to do with it. You’ve already seen what sort of scraps lie about my worktable awaiting spare parts. Haven’t gotten my own finished yet, and I can’t really divert my brain, in the struggle I’ve had to finish this novel properly. But Seeking North might just work with minimal effort, once certain things gel.
Stay tuned. Look at Lynn’s site: Lynn’s Blog /a> for details.
I actually rate bookstores on how well stocked they are on Cherryh books. I look every time I go into a new one. 😉
I do too. And then I put them in the correct order since they never ever are. (using my OCD powers for good — honest!)
🙂 So do I! Both rating of the store and putting books in order. That’s too funny — there’s a legion of fans mucking about with the displays.
😆 the Ninja Navy…strikes!
Hah, make sure you put a couple of CJ’s books with the covers facing outward so customers ogle ’em and read the backs too. :angel: My last visit to Barnes & Noble (in brick and mortar) they had the Faded Sun trilogy, Cyteen, and a couple of the latest Foreigners, with IIRC, the first novel too. Plenty of other books there.
BTW, their manga and graphic novel section was bigger. No quibbles there. The sub-genres in evidence? Well, there were, at least, plenty of books in the scifi and fantasy section. As long as somebody gets something they want to read, and as long as a reader doesn’t miss something they did want to read. Then again, if they start writing so they’ll have it…. 🙂
A used copy of Paladin and a new, duplicate of Faded Sun (the trilogy omnibus) are sitting beside me, to go on the “to Read” and “to Re-Read” stacks.
Happy Holidays!