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Movement on The Dinosaur Lords front! No, the Official Editorial Rewrite Notes still haven’t gotten here. The good news is that there is reason to believe they are about to. The bad news was I also got what I thought was reason to suspect the editor was going to ask me to make fundamental changes to the [...] So, since my most recently recounted (and most triumphant!) adventure, I had a very busy week. Too busy to take time off and, you know, blog. But first: your too-long deferred fix of Emma Dog. Because we all know she’s really the draw here to the blog. I just need to face facts. Emma looks absurdly [...] Earlier this evening Emma Dog and I took a walk on what I call Bear’s Ditch, just east of the Rio Grande Nature Center fields. It’s our favorite place to walk. As often is the case, we encountered sundry people and animals – mostly dogs, although the equestrians were out in force today too. Encounter #1:
So, low-starch/sugar birthday cake successfully made and frosted, and the first piece consumed! With coffee and, eventually, French Vanilla ice cream, thank you very much. As I mentioned yesterday on Facebook (took me some serious scrolling to find the original post, what with the way my Wall has been slammed by birthday greetings. For which, well – [...] Wish me luck, kids. I am so going for it! With my birthday coming up Wednesday I’ve decided to try to making this recipe for sour-cream chocolate cake, except substituting flaxseed meal for flour and Splenda for sugar. We’re talking seriously low starch, low sugar. I was inspired by this flaxseed “foccacia” bread, which is very breadlike [...] So yesterday I got an email firing me off the Seekrit Projekt. The editor – who has been immensely supportive, helpful, and enthusiastic throughout our professional association, and who professed herself delighted by everything I delivered – said her CEO didn’t care for the “voice, tone, and style of writing.” (Or as one waggish friend [...] THE DINOSAUR LORDS, my epic (in every way) fantasy novel, has gone out into the world! Quick – don’t think of a rhinoceros! Especially not, Gods forbid, a purple one. Yeah, it’s trite. Also true. It’s hard. So this is the task I’ve set myself. At least until next Sunday. Of course it may seem strange to blog about it, since I’ve complained blogging is a lot like work. Since it involves. You know. Writing. But [...] I wrote those sweet and wondrous words: The End. I just wrote The End to the big rewrite of my epic fantasy novel, THE DINOSAUR LORDS. |
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