And in other news, the search for Blue Octember, Volume One

[kinzel]

Wow, I like that. The Search For Blue Octember ...
maybe SRM should to a chapbook on that... sounds like 13 stories, each between 999 and 1299 words long (on my OpenOffice.org wordcount), on The Search for Blue Octember.... might be able to afford that at 3 cents a word ... Hmmmmm. No, wait .. someone go check this year's minimum SFWA payment for short stories..... Like I need another project for this year. So Ok... if you're interested, let me know... maybe we can do it anyway... Oh, oh, might need a co-editor or guest editor.... I think I'm getting something here .. I see, that's 'cause the coffee just got delivered... Seriously, this may be done. A Halloween release date....whoa, I like it.

Meanwhile in Second Life Librarian Pam Ribble has shared a YouTube link of potential interest to Librarians, writers, artists (have you ever created *your* own avatar? Or your own skyscraper?), the general public, and Friends of Liad ... this is a kind of fuzzy video tour of the expanded Second Life Library. SF writers you may have heard of who are mentioned in the tour include Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller .... For those of you who like to see raw links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8v3TZethQ0

If you're interested, talk here or send me email. Like to see more -- visit Second Life and search on Friends of Liad in the general search engine ... we've got several bookstores -- and a park -- you can visit, and then there's Chatrez -- that's the island built by members of The Friends of Liad. Oh, also, if you do *join* Second Life, please feel free to tell them Elan Neruda or Kit Jimenez sent you. Yes, that does help us pay the virtual rent over there.

And in Other News -- the clerk at a local PO realized that on my second trip yesterday we'd pushed the total package postage for the day somewhat over $500; in fact, altogether this week we've shipped out most of a hundred Hellsparks and lots and lots of other book and chapbook orders that had been waiting for packaging. The goal is to have all the (non-pre-order) orders through 7:00 AM this morning out to the PO by 11:30 AM today. Soon as I finish here I go pack some more... if you're waiting for an order it really out to be there RSN.

Oh right, did I mention that a quick eyeball of the stock seems to show we've got about a dozen more copies of Hellspark left and about two dozen copies of the Liaden Universe Companion, Volume One left... I *do so* intend to get something up one eBay later today, something retrieved from the inner warehouse of the nearly late, nearly great Meisha Merlin publishing empire itself ... perhaps an I Dare or ... heck, we'll see what we have after I get back from the PO.

Be well, be busy, be happy.

Comments

Search for what?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

if you're interested, let me know

interested in a chapbook of 13 stories called, "The Search for Blue Octember" or interested in writing such a story or interested in . . .

1,000 word stories, eh? That could be interesting.

What the heck is Octember, anyway? The other half of Septober, I suppose?

Okay, this could be interesting. Is it time for a good strong cup of tea?

Halloween release date? Walk me backwards - when does that go to the printers, and then the editing, and the selection, and the submissions - does this mean the deadline is July 4th? Fireworks!

Interested, yes. Not quite sure which interested you were asking about, though.

Send out signals as the notions percolate, okay? Or should we watch for a pillar of smoke by day and fire by night?

Re: Search for what?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

So I half-wake this morning and recite to myself, "September, Octember, November, December - the fall quartet!" and then realize why I am thinking this. The ember months. I don't think I had ever realized that October is the odd month out. And with a slight editing twist, we can make it fit. Thanks!

Re: Search for what?

[saruby.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of thinking of Autumn as the "ember" months. How appropriate! It's such a nice image.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued by this The Search For Blue Octember. And interested. Do go on. :>

[baggette.livejournal.com]

And me! Seems like a good place to deposit ideas on the "second Tuesday of next week" and "Febtover" , among other things.
And are you saying Halloween 2007?? Are you bored or stupid?
You CAN'T be bored.... you have all those books to pack.......
And WRITE!!