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[Dec. 19th, 2009|02:00 pm] |
OMG HAVE BOOK FOUR. Will have a swanky cover image for you when I get it. The cover looks weird and blurry on the product review page, but sometimes Lulu does that and it will look awesome and not at all blurry when you actually get it!
Also, if you type in "HOHOHO" at checkout, you get twenty percent off. THAT'S A LOT OF PERCENT. It's more than ten, that's for sure.
Omnibus is being worked on steadily. |
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| Print Editions and Christmas |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|01:16 am] |
Okay, here's what's going on. Nikki and I are cracking down hard and almost done with the print version of Book Four. It will be up VERY VERY VERY SOON, I'm hoping within the next couple of days. I just checked Lulu's holiday shipping deadlines, and if you live in the states and use ground shipping (and we can get the book posted by tomorrow, which is my hope, but Nikki and I are both very busy so we are going to do our best), you will get the book by Christmas. If you use expedited shipping, you have until Dec. 18th to order. If you use express shipping, you can order until Dec. 21st.
I don't know that the omnibus will make it out in time for Christmas, but we're going to try really hard to at least make it available by the express shipping deadline. We still need to bang out the special features and cover for it.
Speaking of special features, the print version of book four will include "Cooking With Ice Cream: An Erotic Recipe Book", full of fun and exciting things you can make yourself if you ever decide you want to have a meal influenced heavily by aliens. YOU NEVER KNOW.
ALSO: 10% OFF ON ALL OF MY BOOKS UNTIL DECEMBER 30TH
Lulu has a promotion going on right now, if you enter the code "HUMBUG" at checkout, you will receive 10% off on any of the books from now until December 30th! Which is a pretty nice thing for them to do, I think. |
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| NEW MOON |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:04 pm] |
OMG WHAT DID YOU GUYS THINK OF NEW MOON??
I'm ashamed to admit I actually liked it. But given that I've always thought Jacob was a vastly more interesting character than Edward, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It's just such a boring book (in my opinion), I'm surprised it translated so well to the screen. ALSO, MAN, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME DAKOTA FANNING PLAYS JANE??? BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT.
MY REVIEW OF THE MOVIE: Edward is still boring, his relationship with Bella is still boring and overdramatic, Jacob has a nice set of abs (is he legal?), I heart when Charlie is awkwardly confused by how to raise Bella, and Dakota Fanning is the most kick ass vampire in the entire series so far, can we have a Jane spin off movie?
THE END. |
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| Some NaNo musings |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|03:25 am] |
I love that so many of you dudes are doing NaNo! It fills my heart with glee and happy. NaNoWriMo is a Super Important Monster to me, in that if I'd never done it that first year, I probably would have never written anything ever again my entire life.
As a kid I was always like, "I'm gonna be a writer when I grow up!" But I never knew what to write about. Then as I got older and became a cynical teenager, I was like, "Pah, this writing thing will never pan out because I suck at finishing things and also I still don't know what to write about. I think I'll become a rock star instead."
Of course the rock star thing fell through, as things like that often do. I graduated high school neither a rock star nor a writer. But then that November, a friend of mine posted to her LJ, "I don't think I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year," and it was October 31st and I clicked on the link because I was all, "What is this NaNoWriMo business?" and I read the entire contents of the site (which at that point were not as massive, as NaNo was only in its third year), and I was like, "I will do this even though I will FAIL EPICALLY" and the thing is, I didn't fail epically. I actually COMPLETED a novel.
And then I tried it the next year. And the year after that. And, okay, I failed those two years, but then I KEPT DOING IT and I haven't failed since, and then I started realizing that I didn't have to only write in November, there were eleven other perfectly valid months in the year for writing.
And that's how I've ended up with eight rough drafts, a handful of drafts in progress and a parody of the entire Twilight series, and I still don't know what to write about, but NaNoWriMo taught me that doesn't matter as long as I can write it really fast.
The point of this story is I've got the writing thing down. I think the next step is learning that whole "revision" thing.
HAPPY NANO, EVERYBODY! KEEP ON KEEPING ON AND POST YOUR WORD COUNTS AND HEY, WE'RE ALL FRIENDS HERE, WHY NOT CHALLENGE EACH OTHER TO SOME WORD WARS? AND THROW OUT SOME DARES? I LOVE YOU GUYS.
PS: Oh yeah, I totally forgot that the whole reason I started making this post was to mention that I'm kandigurl on the NaNo site (as well as on LJ!) if you want to be my writing buddy. |
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| GUYS I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|02:40 am] |
I promise! I'm working (very slowly) with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) opaleyes on getting the print version of the last book out to you. We're both kind of in crazy transition periods right now, and really, it's more that she's super busy and I'm making excuses for myself because that's easier than admitting to you guys how truly lazy I really am.
Anyway, we'll get both the fourth book and the omnibus book out by Christmas, I sure hope, I will have to call Nikki and we'll have to do some major discussin'.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS?? MAN I MISS YOU. |
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| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT BOXED SETS (and an alternate ending) |
[Sep. 30th, 2009|02:06 am] |
A lot of people have been asking, for quite some time, about whether there's going to be a boxed set sort of thing after all of this was said and done. I know a bunch of you have been holding out on purchasing the books because you're waiting for this.
HERE IS AN ANSWER FOR YOU.
See, Lulu doesn't do boxed sets. So I can't really put all of the books in a box. BUT. I do have plans for a super-big-mighty-book containing all four in one tome. I'm working with opaleyes to come up with some extra awesome bonus stuff for that. Guys, I want you to know that most of the incredible bonus stuff is actually opaleyes saying, "THIS WOULD BE COOL" and me going, "WHY ARE YOU SO BRILLIANT" and then magic happens.
Anyway, this will come out after the print version of the fourth book, but before Christmas. So, you know, you can buy a copy for every single person you've ever met.
( AND NOW, A CONFESSION ) |
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| Chapter Thirty-Nine, "The End?!" |
[Sep. 27th, 2009|10:04 pm] |
The Most Incredible Work of Literature in the Entire Cosmos
Chapter 39, "The End?!"
Mr. Leader would never not be annoying. He'd been in non-stop "I-told-you-so" mode ever since we'd arrived on his ship.
"I told you that child couldn't be trusted," he smarmed at Xlormp.
"Yes, Qzrudle, you are very wise, that is why we made you leader," my heavenly alien said placatingly.
Only one day had passed since the battle, but it felt like much longer. I'd processed so much in that time that my brain felt heavy. I almost wished it had been taken.
"That proves it, though," Christopher mentioned yesterday once we'd chained up the Blobbersons as best we could in the Haberdashes' basement. "You were the one with the enhanced brain after all. And Wemjox was just a jerk." She kicked Stu's motionless body.
( INDEED THE JERKINESS WAS TRUTH AND THE LIES WERE...UM...NOT. )
SORRY THIS IS SO LATE I APOLOGIZE I LOVE YOU GUYS THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT ALSO THE END.
Also, if you guys are going to be around on Sunday, and you have a couple of dollars to spare, I could REALLY REALLY REALLY use your help. I'm going to be marathon writing all day, a dollar for 100 words, and hopefully by the end of the day I'll have something akin to a first draft for a novel and also enough money to pay my rent. Because right now I don't have enough money to pay my rent. Because I blew it all going to Hoop Camp. Because I'm...um...a bad planner. Anyway, tell everybody you know that might be interested in helping out and also reading some ridiculous, highly caffeinated writing.
I'll be posting what I've written hourly on my personal journal at kandigurl, which you may want to go ahead and friend if you want to keep up with any future writing projects. I'll also update here with any links, but non-Xlormp-related stuff won't be posted here. EFF WHY EYE. :)
ANYWAY, thank you guys for being so awesome and making this story so much fun to write and post and share and I have a lot more to say but I will have to say it later because I'm kind of pressed for time right now! BUT I LOVE YOU. FO SERIOUS. |
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| Chapter Thirty-Eight, "And That's When All Hell Broke Loose" |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|11:08 pm] |
The Most Incredible Work of Literature in the Entire Cosmos
Chapter 38, "And That's When All Hell Broke Loose"
The weird cube glowed brighter, brighter, until it nearly blinded all of us. Everyone watched, stunned into stillness, staring, curious. Even the Blobbersons were watching.
A beam of light shot out of the cube and hit Wemjox full in the face. Um. Faces. It surged from the cube, creating an anchoring link, and I watched as they began to rise into the air. It looked as though the cube pulled something out of them, but I didn't know what. They swiveled and swirled around themselves, in and out of the light, and finally, something exploded in their vicinity. The light went out and Wemjox plummeted to the ground.
Or anyway, something plummeted to the ground. For a few startled moments, everyone stared at the creature that landed. It certainly looked nothing at all like Wemjox. It was bigger, for one thing. Lots bigger. And scabbier. And it had this ugly, hangy skin. And it looked, quite frankly, friggen' evil.
( OF COURSE, I'VE BEEN SAYING FROM DAY ONE THAT THIS KID WAS EVIL. AM I RIGHT? )
OTHER CHAPTERS
So I'm posting this chapter early because I'm ON THE ROAD, driving to Hoop Camp in California, and I have no idea if I'm going to be around the Internet tomorrow. So you get this chapter EARLY, yay hooray!
The Breaking Dawn auction is over, crazy mad congratulations to asklepiades for winning! And thank you so much to everyone who bid! You guys are nuts. I never, ever, ever expected it to go for that much. I almost feel embarrassed saying how much it went for. You can just go look. *shakes head* I REALLY APPRECIATE IT, THOUGH!!! |
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