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Yay! Blackthorne Again.

3/3/2017

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After spending some time in the future, I'm now time-traveling to the late 1700s again for a couple of weeks. I got page proofs for Blackthorne yesterday. OMG, the layout and typography are gorgeous. The folks at Saga did a magnificent job. Seriously, I wish you could see this. At the same time, I'm getting the heebie-jeebies. It's part of the publishing process: this fear. I know I've taken risks when this is how I feel upon watching it inch toward publication. Risk-taking is my job, I know, but it doesn't make it any less scary. Gods, I hope y'all like it. It contains murder mystery/crime, politics, adventure, tall ships, guerilla warfare, and some horror. All mixed together. This one is dark--much darker than Cold Iron. Suvi, Nels (and Viktor,) and Ilta are present, but there are new characters too. Dylan and Dar get more screen-time. (I very much enjoyed writing about those two.) And...and...there's so much that turned out right with this one. I'm excited...and terrified all at once.

That's how it goes. We'll see. Anyway, I've so much work to do. The page-proofs for Blackthorne, finishing a novel, and writing/rewriting two short-stories. It's a lot for me. So, I'll probably be scarce on Twitter and FB for a while. It's for the best, really. I don't need to get embroiled in debates. (Although, holy crap, Republicans. Really? You honestly don't give a crap about hypocrisy? Really? You really have no sense of irony at all? I mean, what the hell do you say to someone who is that intent on being the one who is right at all times? Who is that tied to believing they can do no wrong? [sigh] I mean, we get it. It was never about HRC's emails. Not ever. It was about HRC. It was personal. Period. We get that. But either perjury is a crime with a prison sentence or it isn't. I'm sick to fucking death of your exceptionalism.)

Anyway, I'm off to check my manuscript. I hope your weekend is a good one!


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Paul Weimer
3/3/2017 11:27:43 am

I am SO looking forward to Blackthorne, too, Stina

Physical books DO have an advantage in beautiful typography over ebooks, true

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khavrinen
3/18/2017 08:16:35 am

"holy crap, Republicans. Really? You honestly don't give a crap about hypocrisy? Really? You really have no sense of irony at all?"

One of the other websites I've been spending way too much time on lately, https://wonkette.com/, has an expression that is used regularly in the comments, usually abbreviated to the quasi-acronym "IOKIYAR". This stands for "It's OK if you're a Republican", and is used to refer to how universally it seems to be the case that the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad things they absolutely flip out over when an opponent does them are either dismissed as trivial when they do them, or even held up as examples of "standing by their principles." And the voters who support them not only seem to be oblivious to it, but will become actively hostile if you try to point it out to them. They're not only "OK with hypocrisy", it's SOP.

[ If you're trying to avoid political drama, stay away from Wonkette; it's nearly as bad a time sink as TV Tropes... ]

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