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they don't seem to understand the way the hammer shapes the hand

Jan. 25th, 2008 at 2:16 PM

1,188 words on "Smoke and Mirrors," today, because that's what I'm supposed to be working on.

Not.

Todd is always happy to rattle on, though. It's nice to have characters who are happy workers. In fact, being a writer himself, he actually forces in the other characters in stories where he has POV to work harder. He grasps narrative.

Channeling the Pixies:

"Where is my mail?"
"Where is my mail?"
"Where is my mail?"

Ahh, the joys of ~~living by your wits~~ making a career in the arts. Allegedly, my agent received the publication check for Dust a couple of weeks ago, and I was supposed to have it this week. Alas, as of yesterday, it was not here.

Good thing I believe in keeping a lot of carbohydrates around in case of slow cash flow. I'm also still waiting on the delivery checks for Ink & Steel and Hell & Earth, and considering I've already returned the copyedited manuscript of the first of those, it would be nice to have the money for the work I did last October. Not that I need to pay my rent and insurance and utilities and student loans, or anything....

(There's also a couple of foreign rights deals that might pay me sometime this year, but I don't actually budget around those.)

Anyway, I'm going to be here with my Raison d'etre, if my horribly unreliable mailperson who tends to jam letters into the box any which way (fold, spindle, and mutilate) ever shows up.

Mood:cranky. but with beer.
Music:Jackson Browne - Casino Nation

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fledgist wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 07:31 pm (UTC)

This may be a dumb question, but how do you get paid from those countries that have public lending rights laws?

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 07:32 pm (UTC)

As far as I know, I don't.

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gentlesavage73 wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 07:53 pm (UTC)

Do you think your "Smoke and Mirrors" will get confused with Neil Gaimans short story collection of the same name? Have you thought about that?

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 07:56 pm (UTC)

No, I'm pretty sure it won't. Or any of the other 6,341 Amazon search results for "smoke + mirrors."

Titles get re-used all the time. They can't be copyrighted.

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thought1 wrote:

Jan. 29th, 2008 10:33 pm (UTC)

You should email Neil, have him mention the "potential confusion" in his blog, and then both of you link to the two books on Amazon (you do have a pre-order set up there for it, right?) in each of your blogs. More links = more exposure for both of you. (:

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 29th, 2008 10:46 pm (UTC)

Except it's a sort story, not a book. And it'll be going up either free, or at a very minimal subscription charge, on the Shadow Unit site. *g*

Otherwise, very good idea....

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blackcoat wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 09:50 pm (UTC)

Also, you know, there are worse things to be confused with...

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cristalia wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 02:58 am (UTC)

Heh. We get readers by any means necessary. *g*

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 03:05 am (UTC)

I suspect that very few people are going to get a Shadow Unit short story confused with Neil's collection, anyway. ;-)

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cristalia wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 03:13 am (UTC)

They could try really hard. ;)

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neutronjockey wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 12:04 am (UTC)

I mean, if it brings up Bear's book when someone's searching for Gaimans I can see nothing but win-win here.

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fledgist wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 11:44 pm (UTC)

I see. I just wondered.

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desperance wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 06:21 pm (UTC)

You have to be UK-resident or a UK national to qualify for UK PLR. Except that we have reciprocal arrangements with other countries that run PLR schemes. Which, alas, doesn't include the US, yet...

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stwish wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 08:15 pm (UTC)

That's your idea of carbohydrates, ay? Fancy beer with a furn name? I'll send you some hippie war surplus brown rice..

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 08:16 pm (UTC)

Beer has calories.

I also made corn bread.

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blackcoat wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 09:19 pm (UTC)

Beat me to it. :)

Then again, porter is named for the chaps who drank it for breakfast, so...

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mechaieh wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 08:46 pm (UTC)

Anyway, I'm going to be here with my Raison d'etre,

Ooh. WANT.

*makes note for post-deadline splurge*

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 08:47 pm (UTC)

It makes everything better.

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summers_place wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 08:53 pm (UTC)

Raison d'Etre is an AWESOME beer.

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hotbadgerdeluxe wrote:

Jan. 25th, 2008 09:16 pm (UTC)

Sorry to chuck this in from the middle of nowhere, but I've just watched Cloverfield. Astounding. Seriously. Up there with Fargo, maybe even better...

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speakertomgrs wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 07:36 am (UTC)

Oh my, that beer does sound good. And it goes well with duck (there's one in my refrigerator right now). And they have a porter (mmmmm ... porter). And there's a distributer about a 20 minute drive from here.
*** Locks door and hangs up "Gone Fishing" sign ***

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 12:20 pm (UTC)

Dogfish Head is perhaps my greatest discovery of the 21st century.

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desperance wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 06:23 pm (UTC)

if my horribly unreliable mailperson who tends to jam letters into the box any which way (fold, spindle, and mutilate)

I once saw a cartoon (? from the New Yorker?) with proud managerial mailmen standing beside their new Folding, Spindling and Mutilating machine...

*goes off to see if Raison d'Etre is available in the UK*

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 26th, 2008 06:26 pm (UTC)

If it's not, come visit. The same company also makes a barleywine called Midas Touch which has saffron and muscat grapes in.

nomnomnom.

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thought1 wrote:

Jan. 29th, 2008 10:30 pm (UTC)

*gasp* You mean all authors aren't glamorous multi-millionaires??? My world is crumbling around me!!! *snicker*

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matociquala wrote:

Jan. 29th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)

I make about thirty thousand dollars in a good year. *g*

OTOH, Ican work in my pajamas.

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