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superior scribbler

My friend Casey honored me with this badge. I might be a Superior Scribbler, but I’m a very Late Scribbler too (check the date on her post).

I’m very grateful for this, of course, even if belated. And, for the record, Casey is indeed a truly Superior Scribbler (currently on vacation).

Passing on Superior Scribbler to (in no order):
1. Alexa — of The Real Princess Diaries
2. Lia — formerly of Starlight Ministries and now Rogue Reverend
3. Beth — Tales of Urban Wonder and Decay
4. Aspasia — of La Libertine’s Salon
5. the whole crew of Yes Means Yes!, though particularly eroticundulation

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writing/publishing advice

My darling publicist sent me a blog invite to submit some writing/publishing advice. I missed the deadline, but for what it’s worth, here’s my bit of advice for any of you who want me to sum up my lessons learned:

Beat head against wall. Repeat until wall crumbles or you die.

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my first anthology

So now I’m a professional blogger, I guess. My blog post about Kushiel’s Dart and how it affected my approach to my work was selected to appear in an anthology on prostitution. They paid me and everything. I have a copy of the book at home, though I haven’t cracked it yet (Gillette got an essay in there too).

I like this because it was pretty painless. All I have to do is blog for several more years and I’ll have a book! (That was a joke.)

UPDATE: Jacqueline Carey mentioned on her November homepage updates. I’m so flattered. I still probably won’t be able to speak should I get to attend another book-signing of hers.

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an agency offer

An interesting side-effect of winning an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards was that I got an e-mail from a literary agency. More properly, an intern at the agency. Still, a literary agency contacted me. Pretty nice and something I was very secretly wishing for. It was a heady moment.

Since she contacted me about two weeks before the Spitzer scandal broke, I knew it was genuine interest. Anything else I would’ve dismissed. And it was an agency I had considering querying (eons ago when I was querying agencies). So that was very good.

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writing diversity

Proof that I’ve been hanging around sex worker activists way too long — I complain about a book’s lack of “diversity” in an Amazon review.

PS: This is said with much love and the most gentle irony. I’m mostly amazed I’m using the word in various contexts. Obviously something from all those listserv debates and conference calls has sunk in.