Death of a Tetra and Other Stuff

[lydamorehouse]

First off, for those of you who are keeping me accountable, we lost another tetra (Tetra10) yesterday. And, yes, it was my fault. He was looking kind of spotty and floating near the top so I decided a blast of the old fungicide might help. I put in a double dose. I just wasn’t thinking. Of course, this knocked him right out, and then I had to spent then next few frantic moments siphoning twenty-five percent of the tank water out so as to not have any more tragedies.

In other news, IROSF bought the Elizabeth Bear interview, which will be coming out in March. They are going to do a little tightening of it (I always send a transcript, basically), but they seemed pretty happy with the discourse generally. Hooray.

I got flowers from HER British publisher since today is the official street-date for Tall, Dark & Dead over the pond. I can’t even cope with how nicely they’re treating me. I only hope to GOD that the book does well so I’m worth all this attention.

HER publisher also sold bookclub rights for Dead Sexy. According to Anne, my editor, the book will be available through Rhapsody (Romance), Doubleday, and Science Fiction book clubs. This is great news if only because this particular contract is carrying no other books, so the likelihood of it also earning out just got that much closer (because what they do is, since this is kind of a publisher-to-publisher deal, my publisher “credits” my account with money from the sale. So, I’m suddenly a couple of thousand dollars less in the hole for my advance against sales). Anyway, fingers crossed.

I also got a call from Don at Uncle Hugo’s to schedule a signing for HER in May (details as the day approaches). SHE has a lot of up-coming May gigs, including guest blogging at a romance site, which is nice for some.

Comments

[jiawen]

I'd like to ask you about her and her relationship with you sometime.

Signings

[janetwain.livejournal.com]

So, if you're all about coming out as a Witch in Cosmo, what about Eye of Horus? Call Thraicie at 612-872-1292. We feel left out.

We'd even build a publicity event around the whole deal and use our website/newsletter to hype you.

I could also give any blurb/book info to a trade group I'm a part of.

Also, if you ever want the inside scoup of running a metaphysical bookstore, we're your bestest pals. That way you would know things like there's no frickin' way an herb ordered today will get to the store overnight unless the owner has it at home, or the fact that Llewellyn does NOT have reps which come to your store to sell you stuff, or even call. They do, however occassionally have sales where you get a full keystone discount off of retail. We also love it around Yule when one of our suppliers offers free shipping for a minimum perchase amount. Then we order cauldrons and mortars and pestles. ;>

We could also tell you all about what happens when you put a supposedly unconsecrated (read uninhabited) Ifa alter in the wrong place for a show.

Guide to Newbie Identification:

They don't know how to pronounce Tarot, they say (TAY ro) or (Tear ot)
They think it odd that you sell boot knives
They want to know what Gods/Goddesses they should be worshipping
They ask if this or that is Satanic
They say things like "Welsh is North of Dutchland" when discussing the Mabinogian
They want to know if you have any 3or 4" Pentacle pendants for sale