I heard through the grapevine that books published by Macmillan – the parent company of St. Martin’s Press and TOR, among others – had been removed from Amazon.com. Sure enough, my TOR titles (FALLEN and GUARDIAN) are still listed there, but the books are available from third party vendors.
Isn’t that weird?
It’s especially odd as TOR had offered a Kindle version of GUARDIAN.
I wonder what’s going on…?
This is an amazing story. Such a simple strategy that many people (obviously) didn’t think of it, but a very effective one.
That sounds funny, doesn’t it?
But the fact remains that the MAMMOTH BOOK OF IRISH ROMANCE is available for sale, and within that anthology is my short story “The Ballad of Rosamunde”, which tells of Rosamunde’s escape from Faerie (where I shamelessly abandoned her in THE ROSE RED BRIDE) and her H.E.A.
I haven’t seen the book or the final version of the story yet. (It was edited again after I saw it, to fit the allotted space, which is always a bit worrisome.) I like the story, though, and was happy to have the chance to let all of you know about Rosamunde’s H.E.A. Finally. No more leaving characters trapped in Faerie for me!
Here’s a link to the previously posted cover art and buy-it-now links.
Over the past few days, there’s been a recurring theme in my conversations with other writers. Lots of them are struggling with getting that “spark”, or with finding the passion to write, or just getting to it amidst the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. And I have been recommending to these friends that they should give the ARTISTS’ WAY by Julia Cameron a try, because it’s a great 12 week program to getting yourself creating again.
In fact, I’ve said this enough times in the last week that it’s starting to sound like a good idea for me, as well. I like to follow TAW once a year, just to clear out the corners, and it’s been a year and half since I’ve done it.
So, let’s do the ARTISTS’ WAY together. Grab a copy and read the first chapter in the next week. In the meantime, you’ll need to do your three pages every morning.
(Yes, Pam, even you.)
There’s the weekly artist date to do, as well.
I’m going to do mine Sunday to Sunday, even though I started a day late this week. I read the first chapter on Monday (yesterday) and started the exercises. Let’s check in each Monday and see how we’re doing, and cheer each other on as necessary. It’ll be fun to share our artist dates, too – we could give each other ideas.
Let’s get those creative sparks burning again!
This happens to me all the time – I see someone I know a little bit, but not where I usually see that person. For a moment (or maybe longer) I can’t figure out who they are or why I recognize them. It’s because they’re “out of context”, i.e. not in the place where I usually encounter them. It happens when I run into the librarian – the one I always chat with – in the line for the movies. Although I recognize her, I can’t quite place her. In contrast, when I see her at the library, I even remember her name. I look for her there, every time.
I am one of those people who are good at remembering faces but less good at remembering names.
What happened last week, though, was a new variation on this. I bought a wonderful book, called AMERICA KNITS. It’s a compilation of interviews with knitting designers in the States, accompanied by wonderful photography – plus a knitting pattern from each artist profiled. All good. Eye candy plus content!
I dug in and started to read the profiles. (How is it that knitting designers live in such beautiful places?) There’s a profile of Barbara Walker. Many of you may have copies of the stitch dictionaries written by Barbara G. Walker. There are four of them – the first is called A TREASURY OF KNITTING PATTERNS. Well, I also have several reference books written by a Barbara G. Walker – one is A WOMAN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS. In reading the profile, I discovered that these two Barbara G. Walkers were the same person! I never connected those dots.
Amazon did, of course, right HERE.
Would you have made the connection? Which is another way of asking – are you a person who remembers names better, or faces? If you’re a person who organizes your bookshelves by author name instead of by subject (as I do) you might have seen the connection. How do you organize your books? And do you recognize acquaintances when they’re not where you expect them to be?