California trip ... Postponed
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voxwomanOf course, the business trip got cancelled an hour after I dropped 30 bucks at Barnes & Noble on paperbacks to read on the plane and at night in the hotel.
One of the books is a Pern novel by Anne McCaffery's son. I'm a bit leery about it (considering how Frank Herbert's and Tolkien's kids fared with their parent's work), but I'll give it a read, and let you know what I think. I also picked up 2 Eddings (of Hyperion fame) books that I hadn't read, and something else that's in the bag and I don't remember what it is at the moment.
Unsurprisingly, there's been absolutely no outcry for me to take up my mother's Regency torch and run with it, even though I think there's a half-finished novel on her hard drive...
I'm now starting to edit the footage from last week's gig. First to make a big DVD for my band mates and then to make a short thing (or things) to post online and to make a promo multimedia disc (most likely a CD-ROM, since they're much cheaper to copy - I think I get them for less than 10 cents each now) to get gigs.
One of the books is a Pern novel by Anne McCaffery's son. I'm a bit leery about it (considering how Frank Herbert's and Tolkien's kids fared with their parent's work), but I'll give it a read, and let you know what I think. I also picked up 2 Eddings (of Hyperion fame) books that I hadn't read, and something else that's in the bag and I don't remember what it is at the moment.
Unsurprisingly, there's been absolutely no outcry for me to take up my mother's Regency torch and run with it, even though I think there's a half-finished novel on her hard drive...
I'm now starting to edit the footage from last week's gig. First to make a big DVD for my band mates and then to make a short thing (or things) to post online and to make a promo multimedia disc (most likely a CD-ROM, since they're much cheaper to copy - I think I get them for less than 10 cents each now) to get gigs.
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Date: 2007-07-07 07:40 pm (UTC)You should be glad you have your own talents and don't have to soak up the leftover limelight from your mother.
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Date: 2007-07-07 08:43 pm (UTC)My wife has read books by both McCaffreys and found them satisfying.
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Date: 2007-07-07 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-08 03:05 pm (UTC)I suppose if I had any interest in writing historical romances (which I really don't), I could have collaborated with my mom... I did help her write one quasi-steamy sex scene for one of her books (not a Regency - but the historical that took place during the American Revolution - started life as a musical, "The Tory Spinster" [which was performed during Delaware's Bicentennial, I think] and then released as a book called "To Spite the Devil" (since the setting is the colonial Bronx, which the Dutch named Spuyten Duyvel).
Awww....
Date: 2007-07-07 09:33 pm (UTC)The books *will* keep, of course :-D.
Hope you get to go, still!
Re: Awww....
Date: 2007-07-08 02:59 pm (UTC)Re: Awww....
Date: 2007-07-08 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-08 02:57 pm (UTC)he ruined it
Date: 2007-07-08 10:09 am (UTC)on the other hand he's not even trying to talk about dragons most of the time and is working in an almost completely unused time perriod
as long as he only deals with watchwere's and a time when nobody did anything important before then it woln't be that bad...
regency?
Re: he ruined it
Date: 2007-07-08 02:58 pm (UTC)