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Happy 2007!
Wishing everyone, myself included, a much better year than 2006. May you and your loved ones stay healthy, happy and read lots and lots of good books.
And blogs. *g* Don't forget to check out the Samhain blog, live every day except Sunday...and New Year's. LOL The schedule starts again on Tuesday. And on Friday, Twelfth Night (trumpet fanfare, please), yours truly will try to come up with something amusing.
While you're waiting, you can rev up with some of those good books I was talking about. Kate Johnson's "The Twelve Lies of Christmas" is already available for download at My Bookstore and More. On January 2, yaoi fans can revel in Soul of the Night by Ann Cain and Barbara Sheridan, and on January 16, Ann Vremont's luscious erotic historical novel Sacred Heart Diaries hits the electronic stands. Enjoy!
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23d and Vanyr in Print in Feb!
February, for me, is a perfect time for With Nine You Get Vanyr to come out in print. I'll actually have time to read it! :-)
Did you see Vanyr's LoveRomancesandMore.com review yet?
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Thanks for the heads-up on Loves Romance. We've been incredibly lucky with the reviews, especially considering the number of characters. So far, only one reviewer had a real problem with that.
What fascinates me, though, is how every reviewer gets it just a little bit wrong. And they're all off in different ways. Reminds me of those writing exercises where you try to describe something for someone else to draw. Guess I need to work on that! LOL
Meanwhile, I'll just bask in the praise, glad they liked the book they read. :-)
Happy New Year hugs,
Re: 23d and Vanyr in Print in Feb!
I notice that on a lot of reviews. What I don't like is when there's a middling (or worse) review that has its facts screwed up. Probably a double standard on my part (since I'll take glowing reviews with mixed up facts), but ought to get to delete those middling(worse)+bad facts reviews.
Getting it wrong
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It's possible, but I'd say it goes a bit further than astigmatism. LOL We're talking big, honking factual errors. Conflating the Vanyr and Chosen, for example. (Don would soooooo love to be Vanyr, but it ain't a happening thing in this or any other universe. *snerk*)
Leitmotifs are another matter. I expect perception distortion in in the interpretation of story elements and themes, regardless of how many times people read the book. Heck, I'm sure I'm not seeing the forest for the trees myself, and I co-wrote it. Though I suspect you're right; there will be more distortions of every type on the first run-through. Ideally, people are reading too fast the first time, because they're caught in the story and not worrying about its underpinnings.
Admittedly, I'm probably more sensitive to the mistakes because it's my baby. But I was a stickler for review accuracy at CB--even going so far as to rewrite passages with errors in fact. Never wrote a review without a copy of the book at hand to check all my assertions. But I'm sure I got it wrong, too, on occasion. And I'm sure not going to complain. :D
Hugs,
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Give me a call today if you have a chance and feel up to gabbing. The spouse is at work, and I'm about to toss the kids out in the backyard so they can play.
Your "twolips" review
Seen it yet? Congrats on another wonderful review.
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I hadn't seen it. I've been too busy catching up from today's visit to "Materna Medica Land" and fiddling with the blog I'll be posting at Samhain a little later.
Hmm, wonder if "Cat" knows me from one list or another. She obviously knows of Teri's death. Oh well, no matter. I need to thank her and kind reviewer for EuroReviews. This book has really lucked out in the review department. :-)
Thanks again for letting me know!
Hugs,
Jean Marie
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