It’s Tuesday.
Warning up front, today is one of those days where I just don’t feel like acting all nice and sensei-ish. I think it was the coffee.
First up - TMI Tuesday:
1. What did you eat for dinner yesterday?
Fried beef pierogi with cranberry sauce and sour cream.
2. How much cash is in your purse/wallet right now?
$42
3. What have you done to avoid being flirted with by someone you didn’t like?
I say, [and you can ask certain people this--there's been witnesses] ‘Get away from me.’
4. Do you believe the theory “Once a cheater always a cheater”?
Yes.
5. Describe your sex life in two words.
Two Dimensional.
Gadarene is heading toward the book-doctorin’ phase and Blood/Ash [which Katze wants to call "Sacrifice"] is now in the proof phase. There were only two pages that needed art touch ups, the rest were deemed fine–shocking. Of course there’s a slew of lettering issues! And why not, I did do the lettering after all, and we all know how much suck I’m made of. Oh, and Amazons Attack…did I call or it what? Damn right I did, bitches. I should just un-highlight the spoiler white-out. As soon as I whiffed Apokolypse action, I just stopped buying it…I gave up.
Cover art is needed for Gadarene, so I need to find a cover artist. We’ve scrapped the initial plan of having an illustrated ‘BL novel’ because artists are too unreliable these days–shit, I’m hearing from pubs who are actually paying these people money and still having them flake. 0-O. With Gadarene on schedule for publication, I don’t have the personality to deal with flake and MIA-drama. Seriously, if you flake on me, you better never run into me at a convention, because I will put your head through a wall. I’ve found most felony-assault charges can be pled out to reasonable fines, and let’s face it, some fines are just worth paying, you know. [This is likely one of those TMI moments that I should remove from GGY, but not today.] So yeah, I need an artist for minor character art, a cover, and a postcard size pin-up for the back of the book. I also checked out editorial pricing on manuscript doctors, and most of the cheap ones charge 2 cents a word. Not too shabby, but still a bit more than I want to spent, because the books got about 38,500 words. (x_x) I now know why BL novels pubs don’t hire editors to clean up their literal translations. That’s a tidy sum, per title.
Speaking of charges, Bowker charged me $25 to get back into my logbook. Bastards. They’re my numbers…let me see them! Of course if I want them printed out and sent to me, it would cost me $100. Nice huh? Thanks Bowker. I think I need to assign someone to handle this sort of thing–it’s just too easy to do, therefore very easy to let lax, and subsequently screw up.
I wanted to work on my novel this week, but now I must massively revise the ‘Blood/Ash now Sacrifice‘ letters for publication, so that’s put a complete wrench into my writing plans. I’m not too emo about it, once I got started on Chapter 1, I was ready to start writing other scenes in other chapters. I was falling into that trap that says “you must start on chapter 1 and write accordingly until you reach the end.” What BS. I write like I fuck, which is sort of all over the place–it keeps it interesting, and I usually end up where I want to be anyway, which is finished.
That Yaoi magazine belongs to SA Payne. [hahahaha!] Never been to the fiction site run by Payne, I know Livy’s done some work for them - but that’s all I know. Also, they have ads at y!Gallery-it seems they’re the only ones left with ads what y!Gallery. Way to keep on the ball Snover… First things first - yaoimagazine, you need to add a background to your website, because it’s not showing up in Firefox. You have a table with color and art in it, but this white background in that back is just… Also - get rid of that Yaoi-Press style typography. That’s scary. And this is just my personal nitpick–it’s not called ‘yaoi’ if it’s Western. I know, there’s a thousands and one fans who’d argue with me on that point, and if you all had one collective neck–I’d hack it through with a Playdough butter knife. Yes, I would. [Please, don't change it on my account, I'm just a big bitch-face.] All that aside, I hope it’s fruitful. It’d be a nice explicit indie mailorder-only alternative to the commercially safe and marketably neutered, BL-Twist. *Gynocrat: Burning Bridges since 1999!*
Well this ends a rather denunciatory blog post; you’all come back now, ya hear!
Hmmmm….Artists who get paid but don’t produce….Sounds like a job for the ‘motivation’ team. I’m sure they would love to pay these people a visit and ‘motivate’ them to start producing.
We might need to do some ‘tweaking’ here and there, be it fingers, arms or legs.
Now i hear you say, fingers? How can s/he work without fingers. Well there was a guy who could paint using only his feet (there is a movie about it with Daniel Day-Lewis). If he could do it then so can they and they had better do it fast or they be using their tongue to paint next time.
(should the need ever arise than i will help pay the fines :P)
It’s sort of mixed bag for some creators I know - I’ve met creators that have flaked because the editor has annoyed them so bad that they have ZERO desire to work with them anymore, but they signed a contract…which in turn reminds them that their creative outlet has now because a ‘real job’ and kills their motivation even more.
LOL! But I’ve also seen some very selfish people just ‘bail’ on creators who’ve enlisted them financially with jobs and because there are no contracts involved, they just go MIA from life and touch base when it suits them. It’s as if they’re saying that their creative flow is more important than their collaborators, and so their action wont have any consequences in the long term. That’s selfish. Try being a writer who isn’t sure where her cover artist or illustrator is because the person decided she wasn’t going to contact them for over a year. It happened to a pro I know - and I felt bad for her. I won’t say I ever dealt with it, because I tend not to deal with it–I just unplug the collaboration at the first sign of it, because my possessive nature makes me insane. (^_^)
‘Get away from me.’
Genius. Pure, unfiltered GENIUS!
Just like your other answer - - ‘Two Dimensional.’
Love it!!!
((^_^)) You’d be shocked at the number of erotic artists and writers out there who have lost the desire for sex with real human beings. It’s a vicious catch-22.