Same As It Ever Was
Morning. I had a helluva weekend, how ’bout you? For me it’s straight to work on revisions for the next Dru book, and a whole clutch of things I kind of let slide while the release madness was jumping up and down under my skin like red-hot ants.
Yeah, great image, right?
A couple of great links: LA Banks on writing the paranormal. I about died laughing because I’ve done what she describes before. And Michelle Sagara on the fact that not everyone has to love one’s books. John E. Dunn on who owns a book and Trip Gabriel on how student plagiarism could be rooted in “changing ideas of authorship.” (Both of those two last courtesy Victoria Strauss.)
I don’t quite agree with that last one. I’m more likely to ascribe it to a new form of the same old laziness–almost everyone wants something for nothing, and given a way to cheat, significant proportions of people will. I don’t think “ideas of authorship” have changed. I think people are just as they have always been, except it’s easier to plagiarize and easier to be caught doing so because of the way the Internet works.
Anyway, I have an event to announce! On August 19 at 7pm, I will be at the Cedar Hills Crossing Powell’s, to read from and sign copies of Jealousy! (More information here.) You can even preorder signed copies.
I may–MAY, mind you–even be wearing heels.
Yes, the excitement. I don’t know how we stand it either. *grin*
The only thing I have left to say is a huge thank-you to everyone who has deluged me with congratulations and wonderful responses to Jealousy‘s release. I am overwhelmed by the support and cautiously optimistic, since plenty of you seem to have read it and like it. Thank you! You are, after all, who I write for.
Back to the word mines, my dears. Have a good Monday.
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August 2nd, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Agreed about the cheating.
I think the only person who actually had an interesting point was the one who said that students weren’t coming in prepared for the rigor of scholarship. I remember what that’s like and how tempting it becomes to lift someone else’s words in order to make the job easier.
I vaguely remember that there was a rabbi who lived during the time of Jesus and is supposed to have said, when asked how is one supposed to live a godly life:” love one another as you would love yourself; the rest is commentary”.
In this case, the students are cheating; the rest is commentary.
Delayed (I do have an excuse) congratulations on the publication of Jealousy. It’s upstairs waiting for me to finish that %@$#! that I’m stuck here with
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