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minervasoloIts the one year anniversary of Tease being published today! I have blogged about it (I was going to C&P it, but it turns out the voice I use on the blog is noticeably different to how I write here, and it just felt weird). I just want to say thank you to everyone who helped beta-read it, promote it, and buy it!
It was inspired by The Dark is Rising sequence - I can't even say it was fanfic, because the connections had always been massively tenuous - hence the blond boy called Barnabas and the Cornish setting and it was lurking around in my head for years before I finally put pen to paper and made it my own. I wrote most of it at work, before the visitors came in. I want to get back to that, and I think Jack and Will (another long term headstory) is going to come out in a similar way. Between the beta-ing and the professional edits I learnt a lot about my writing foibles, including facing up to my comma addiction, and how to accept American spellings and syntax. It's a necessary evil, sadly! It's interesting to see how it's already influenced the way I write now, hopefully to avoid going through quite so many rounds of edits (the line editor had very different opinions about what matter to me or Sandra, my main editor).
Today seems as good a day as any to finally tackle filing my own taxes, since that's something else that came out of this even though I haven't earned the thousands that would mean I actually have to. But hey, the government owe me money from overtaxing me on the day job again (£300, again, third year running) so it's probably a good thing I went self-employed anyway.
Anyway, I'm running a little competition over on the blog to celebrate. Don't worry - even if no one enters I'll adopt a seal pup anyway (it would be cruel not to - charity donations make for odd prizes in that sense), but I've had that charm bracelet since I first finished Tease, and I'd love to see it on someone else's wrist.
It was inspired by The Dark is Rising sequence - I can't even say it was fanfic, because the connections had always been massively tenuous - hence the blond boy called Barnabas and the Cornish setting and it was lurking around in my head for years before I finally put pen to paper and made it my own. I wrote most of it at work, before the visitors came in. I want to get back to that, and I think Jack and Will (another long term headstory) is going to come out in a similar way. Between the beta-ing and the professional edits I learnt a lot about my writing foibles, including facing up to my comma addiction, and how to accept American spellings and syntax. It's a necessary evil, sadly! It's interesting to see how it's already influenced the way I write now, hopefully to avoid going through quite so many rounds of edits (the line editor had very different opinions about what matter to me or Sandra, my main editor).
Today seems as good a day as any to finally tackle filing my own taxes, since that's something else that came out of this even though I haven't earned the thousands that would mean I actually have to. But hey, the government owe me money from overtaxing me on the day job again (£300, again, third year running) so it's probably a good thing I went self-employed anyway.
Anyway, I'm running a little competition over on the blog to celebrate. Don't worry - even if no one enters I'll adopt a seal pup anyway (it would be cruel not to - charity donations make for odd prizes in that sense), but I've had that charm bracelet since I first finished Tease, and I'd love to see it on someone else's wrist.
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Date: 3/8/11 12:45 pm (UTC)And AWWWWWWWW, a little seal pup! :D