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Jun. 22nd, 2011
A few questions
Jun. 22nd, 2011 07:45 pm1) It seems I am about to become a small press. Any advice beyond "DON'T DO IT!"?
2) How does the name Inkstained Succubus Productions ring?
3) If you could have a t-shirt with a logo for something fictional of mine on it, what would you like?
A Phantasmagoria staff shirt?
A LedaCorp shirt?
An Ezekiel Info Tech shirt, with the Wheel-in-a-wheel logo?
Pleasant Valley Sanatorium?
Shawna York/Rock Dickinson fangirl?
taking suggestions
2) How does the name Inkstained Succubus Productions ring?
3) If you could have a t-shirt with a logo for something fictional of mine on it, what would you like?
A Phantasmagoria staff shirt?
A LedaCorp shirt?
An Ezekiel Info Tech shirt, with the Wheel-in-a-wheel logo?
Pleasant Valley Sanatorium?
Shawna York/Rock Dickinson fangirl?
taking suggestions
Good reviews make my day
Jun. 22nd, 2011 07:46 pmhttp://creative-whimsy.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-wild-passions-anthology.html
"This was an interesting story, a sort of alternative history during the 1930s/1940s where creatures called constructs exist. In essence they are animals with souls, although how much of them (physically) is human, I'm not exactly sure. They are animal enough in appearance that no one would mistake them for what they are. The story is surprisingly dark (compared to other Sparrow works I've read), and I thoroughly enjoyed the look at carnival life and the struggles the main bear goes through to get his mate back. Some things at the end tugged me from my suspension of disbelief--I just didn't feel they needed to be told in the story--but for the most part this long story is an excellent tale of misfits banding together and protecting one another in the sweetest way they can."
I am pleased.
"This was an interesting story, a sort of alternative history during the 1930s/1940s where creatures called constructs exist. In essence they are animals with souls, although how much of them (physically) is human, I'm not exactly sure. They are animal enough in appearance that no one would mistake them for what they are. The story is surprisingly dark (compared to other Sparrow works I've read), and I thoroughly enjoyed the look at carnival life and the struggles the main bear goes through to get his mate back. Some things at the end tugged me from my suspension of disbelief--I just didn't feel they needed to be told in the story--but for the most part this long story is an excellent tale of misfits banding together and protecting one another in the sweetest way they can."
I am pleased.
Race!Fail or not?
Jun. 22nd, 2011 08:37 pmI have three men in a tri-bond. Commander Cliff Cody, Lt. Commander Frank Stett and Lt. Commander Jake Maggert. Jake has brown hair and blue eyes. Cliff has wavy blond hair and hazel eyes. I am considering making Frank black.
My problem: In the established canon, Cliff and Jake are maimed in an accident that takes Frank's life. Have I yet again killed the black guy in the third reel, so my handsome white heroes can have their happy ending without him? (It takes a lot of work to come to any accommodation, to the point that Cliff asks Jake if it was only Frank he loved)
This takes place before the accident. Although Cliff is in charge by virtue of rank, it's clear the men regard each other as beloved equals.
I don't want to write a future that is all white corn-fed farmboys being heroes in space. I'm subverting the genre and worried about the fact that all my readers know of Frank, at the beginning, is that I killed him before the last story started.
Am i making sense?
My problem: In the established canon, Cliff and Jake are maimed in an accident that takes Frank's life. Have I yet again killed the black guy in the third reel, so my handsome white heroes can have their happy ending without him? (It takes a lot of work to come to any accommodation, to the point that Cliff asks Jake if it was only Frank he loved)
This takes place before the accident. Although Cliff is in charge by virtue of rank, it's clear the men regard each other as beloved equals.
I don't want to write a future that is all white corn-fed farmboys being heroes in space. I'm subverting the genre and worried about the fact that all my readers know of Frank, at the beginning, is that I killed him before the last story started.
Am i making sense?