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Jun. 11th, 2012 08:01 amI was looking at a book in a friend's house last night which had a Preface and a Foreword and an Introduction. Which seemed a superfluity, though actually I'm fairly sure that one of my teenage great unfinished epics carried the same array. And certainly and consciously I have written at least one story that had at least three separate beginnings, one after the other. Geoff says that writers like to clear their throats, which is why tutors and editors are so fond of cutting the first paragraph of a story, or the first chapter of a novel.
Anyway: all this is by way of preamble (heh! didja see what I did there?) to my mentioning that m'good friend Juliet E McKenna has reissued her novella Turns and Chances as an e-book, via the good offices of Wizard's Tower Press. As it happens, I wrote the introduction to that book. Here's a link to the Wizard's Tower page; if you're in the US, it's also available through amazon.com, and no doubt sundry other stores worldwide. But we encourage you to shop at Wizard's Tower if you can.
In other news, the keepable quote from last night's dreaming? "The essential heart of a well-equipped bathroom is a good sponge." *shrugs* Don't ask me. I don't remember context, and I've never owned a sponge. Nor a loofah. These are tools of aspiration to me. But not in our current bathroom, where the bath is frankly barely more than a shower-tray. Karen says it's a safety feature, for families with small children; I say it's a travesty. Also, I would point out that I myself come from a family with small children, and none of us ever drowned in the damn bathtub.
In other other news, Barry and I were just watching two scrub jays hop around on the lawn. We may have been watching with different purposes, but we were both equally intent.
Anyway: all this is by way of preamble (heh! didja see what I did there?) to my mentioning that m'good friend Juliet E McKenna has reissued her novella Turns and Chances as an e-book, via the good offices of Wizard's Tower Press. As it happens, I wrote the introduction to that book. Here's a link to the Wizard's Tower page; if you're in the US, it's also available through amazon.com, and no doubt sundry other stores worldwide. But we encourage you to shop at Wizard's Tower if you can.
In other news, the keepable quote from last night's dreaming? "The essential heart of a well-equipped bathroom is a good sponge." *shrugs* Don't ask me. I don't remember context, and I've never owned a sponge. Nor a loofah. These are tools of aspiration to me. But not in our current bathroom, where the bath is frankly barely more than a shower-tray. Karen says it's a safety feature, for families with small children; I say it's a travesty. Also, I would point out that I myself come from a family with small children, and none of us ever drowned in the damn bathtub.
In other other news, Barry and I were just watching two scrub jays hop around on the lawn. We may have been watching with different purposes, but we were both equally intent.