This is dedicated... Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Sorry about the post a few days back. We'll call it a...a cathartic experiment in narrative. Yeah. That's it. Any way, I recieved my author sheet from Zumaya today. (So yes, i did sighn the contract...but figured y'all knew that...) It's about three pages long, and asks about all sorts of things...your name and contact info, who the book's going to be dedicated to, different types of jacket blurbs (There's a back of the jacket blurb, then a log-line of so many words that would be, for example, a catelog listing, an even smaller log line, a PR synopsis which is entirely different from the back jacket blurb) to discriptions of charcaters and key situations to help the artist create the cover. It'll take a lot of work...I need to come up with blurbs, read through Blue Moon in order to find an exciting excerpt to use as a teaser, (I think my years as a book reviewer, and knowing what struck me, might help there?) and figure out if/when I'm going to get my picture taken. Also, one of the minor flaws my editor saw in my book was how I used my dragons at the end...and I explained to her why, and she say, "Aha...so maybe then..." and I actually went OOOH outloud. Working with an editor is going to be so much fun. I remeber when Alan Natali went over my pieces for places like Flipside...he would mark the heck out of my things, but when they came back, I'd think over his suggestions, and feel my brain stretch as I worked to fix things properly while keeping what I intended. There were a lot of professors who did this for me, and it taught me that the editor is not your enemy. I found a copy of Sense and Sensability in a used bin. Many years ago I saw (and taped) Persuasion off of PBS...this is the version starring Ciaron Hinds. It was the most lovely and romantic movie I'd ever seen. His Captain Wentworth... There is also a love letter in this movie that totally is the lovliest thing. for weeks after I saw the movie, I'd sneak inot the Jane Austin section at the library while I was shelf reading and take a second to look it up, re-read it, sigh, then go back to work. He was also a remarkable Rochester. Any way, because of Persuasion's impact on me, I'd been dying to see Sense and senability for ages. Emma Thompson adapting? Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman starring? Did I mention Alan Rickman? And then I'm going to go through my box of videos (books get the shelf space around here...) and hunt up Persuaion, and see if I still have my copy of "Truly, Madly, Deeply"....the only other Alan Rickman I can remeber seeing off hand that he wasn't playing a evil (Or evil-ish....I watched Harry Potter when it was on the other weekend, and it reminded me why I liked Alan Rickman...) character. I taped that one off PBS too...but seem to remeber thinking that I wouldn't keep it, because it beat me up so badly emotionally. I hope I still have it. I don't think you can get it in the US. I also hope that keeping movies you taped off of TV isn't illegal. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 11:09 AM 0 comments

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