The texture of the outer portion was indeed nice and crisp and flavorful. As to timing for a boneless? I don't know. I expect that Google could tell us... but if not, experiment then come back and tell us how it went.
At least two of those movies, the Grinch and Van Helsing, sucked mightily. That might be why they're in the list.
But speaking of movies:
Blood of Dracula's Castle
Mulholland Drive
Spirits of the Dead
Rosemary's Baby
Sweeney Todd
Bonny and Clyde
Waterworld
Quatermass and the Pit
Now RWA, MWA, and SFWA need to turn to Thomas Nelson and say, "Hey. You too."
“Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita,†having appeared in F&SF, and reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 9, will make an appearance at Tor.com commencing Friday, the 4th of December, 2009.
I can't recall the title, but Macdonald reviewed it once upon a time.
The Pleistocene Redemption.
#112 ::: A.J. Luxton
That's right. SFWA's membership could vote a Nebula to a story spray-painted on a wall if they wanted to.
What SFWA has done is said that no Harlequin imprint is a qualifying sale for SFWA membership. Kate Wilhelm couldn't join SFWA based on a sale to Harlequin right now.
As to awards, I suspect that it's true that a vanity-published novel wouldn't win one: not enough people would read it.
One big problem (among many big problems) with the current Vanity Publish offer is this: How many folks who submit to Harlequin but are rejected (for any of a number of reasons of which "stinks on ice" is only one possibility) would go on to pay a couple of grand to get 75 sales with a manuscript that could have been happily published by Pocket, put an advance in the author's bank account, garner a few thousand sales, and start a career?
When a newbie author sees the line, "This is your invitation to indulge in your passion for writing and start your next chapter as a published author with Harlequin Horizons," you know that what they're going to see is "a published author with Harlequin."
#45 Linkmeister It looks like Harlequin is the only bright spot in the Torstar firmament (sorry; I couldn't resist), which makes this decision even more odd.
Perhaps they decided that it would be a good idea to get all the gold out of the goose at once?
Seriously, I think that the conversation at headquarters went, "Someone is going to make money off these rejected manuscripts. Why shouldn't it be us?"
Barb, the reason there's no money is probably because next-to-no copies sold. The 200 you mentioned: Were they copies that you bought yourself and resold? If so, you wouldn't get royalties from them.
Who's asking you to write a sequel?
If you do (and only do so if it pleases you to do so), then I suggest you start looking at publishers that actually have books on the shelves in stores.
If you're asking me for the name of the judge and the lawyers who were involved in the suit against AuthorHouse, I'm afraid that I don't know.
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Clarence: Check your contract. Do you have a clause allowing you to audit the publisher? If so, you'd probably have to hire your own accountant, but you should be able to find out the actual sales numbers.
But be advised that it's likely that the true sales, when the audit is done, will turn out to be very low.
My understanding is that Harlequin is planning to put a solicitation for Harlequin Horizons in their standard rejection letters.
"This is your invitation to indulge in your passion for writing and start your next chapter as a published author with Harlequin Horizons."
Far more on this at Dear Author.
The open romance boards and blogs are pretty much in meltdown right now. I can only imagine what's being said on private boards and behind friend locks.
If my reading of this is correct, this means that effective immediately Harlequin books, and authors, are not eligible for any RWA awards.
I'd think EEG rather than EKG. First, because an EKG wouldn't tell them anything about what's going on with Scraps' brain, and second because an EKG can be done on the fly with a piece of portable equipment. An EEG requires a lot more setup, so scheduling it a day in advance is more reasonable.
The only reasons I could think for running an EKG are a) it's routine; they do it on everyone who comes through, or b) something odd turned up in his blood work, and they'd like to rule out cardiac as a source of the anomaly.
Wait a couple of months before you pick up Palin's tome. It'll be in the any-book-on-this-table-$1 stacks and you can save some money.
Awww, they went and fixed it.
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Other classic typos include presenting an untied front.
#172 is spam advertising one of the books "published" by Strategic Book Group.
Robert Fletcher really does tell his authors to advertise their books via comment spam. How they do it: They set up Google Alerts on certain keywords related in some way to their books. When those keywords pop up on message boards or in blogs, they go and paste in their ad in the comment thread.
This particular one, poor grammar and all, gets over twelve-hundred hits on the Google-indexed web. I'm sure there were more, but the sysops deleted them as spam. As just happened here.
Unfortunately, there is just about zero chance that the author will come back to see this comment.
The film is Yellow Brick Road. It has an official trailer, now, that you can see at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfX78jrrmi8
At IMDB it's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398428/
And they have a MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/yellowbrickroadthemovie
Later on, maybe, I'll tell you about my two days as set medic.
heresiarch @ various: Thanks for taking the time and thought to write what you have here. For the most part you're writing things I not only agree with but feel too strongly about to be able to word them clearly myself. (That said, I'll give it a try here anyway...)
James D. Macdonald @ 105 and previous: There is a streak in our culture that says male violence toward women is acceptable.
Fortunately, no one's talking about male violence toward women, either. I'm talking about me and Ann Coulter.
It's a thing a lot of people are working to change, and it's a thing a lot of people are privileged to be able to ignore. But as long as that streak of violence is there, when I see a comment like yours at 74 I won't feel amused, I'll feel threatened.
Are you, personally, Ann Coulter? If not, you aren't being threatened. Even if you are Ann Coulter, unless you bring your baseball bat you're safe.
And, ready for this? I'm not trying to amuse you.
I typed a much longer explanation here which I'll instead summarize as: as long as a threat of violence has a possibility of truth, either in the speaker's mouth or in another's, I won't be able to find humor in it because I'll be too busy defending myself for the times when it's true.
Again, no attempt at humor, and no one other than Ann Coulter needs to worry.
But you should worry about Ann Coulter, because you are a person she wants to beat up with a baseball bat. She's come right out and said it. Presuming you're liberal, that is.
I refreshed before posting this, and saw your latest comment at 109. Have you already forgotten what you wrote earlier today? "No one is talking about sodomy"? How about your own words at 74, "then shoving [the baseball bat] up her ass"? No one put those words in your mouth but you, and your apparent disingenuousness here disgusts me.
Are you calling me a liar?
You disgust me.
Go sniveling to Ann Coulter and all her bullies and trolls and teabaggers and thugs and loons, tell her how sorry you are for living, and hope they doesn't beat you up too badly.
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