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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:08:23 GMT -5
On that Ebay Buffy auction, Spike's '70's outfit from LMPTM is going currently for $8,100! It consists of a pair of 34 jeans, a 42 black leather jacket, a (S) tank with safety pins, and a silver(looking) neckchain... Eight THOUSAND dollars, and Spike's not even included... BTW, for those discussing if James had put on weight...his pants and shirt from episode 2 of this season are also up for bid. size 32 jeans.
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:08:49 GMT -5
Rusty said: Well patti, I always consider you cool You too, Rusty. We cool. oh yeah...
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:09:30 GMT -5
Patti said, Nan, you take criticism extremely well. Patti, I take criticism miserably. I whine and complain and ignore and refuse and stomp my feet. However, you're lucky inasmuch as I didn't have my Silver Hammer with me today and I'm blinded and incapacitated with Spike Sniveling. So thanks for giving me credit I in no way merit and will disprove on countless occasions in the future. Nan
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:10:07 GMT -5
Well, obviously out of my price range. Who is auctioning them off? Is it for the filthy lucre, for charity or to finance the Firefly DVD?
Rusty Goode
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:10:37 GMT -5
Nan, Did you mention somewhere that you were published? Like pages between two shiny pieces of cardboard with Fabio's picture on them?
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:11:08 GMT -5
Nan said: I'm blinded and incapacitated with Spike Sniveling. Me too. Sadness. Nan, is a Kirsten (formerly Wanda) rumour about possible guests on Angel next year considered spoilery in your opinion?
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:12:06 GMT -5
Fox gets the filthy lucre.
Patti T.
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:12:30 GMT -5
Mary has done me a huge favor and sent Old Blood to fanfiction sites that have been carring her very excellent Journeys. I could not have been in better company or have a better escort, and I have informed Mary she is now my agent for Spike-related fiction and will get 10% of all the nothing it earns. I thank Mary in public for what she has done in private, as one S'cubie to another.
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:33:27 GMT -5
Daavid wrote, ""You did it to impress Buffy. I know you did. I've known you a long time Spike. It's always about impressing the girl." "Please. I doubt Buffy even knows I'm back. But if she did know, and it did impress her, guess what -- I could snog her like there was no tomorrow, and still have my soul in the morning. So deal with that, you poof!" " David - have *you* ever thought of writing? I like your style!
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:34:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm old, Rusty, so I'm pretty published. 14 books and counting, but none lately. Old Blood is the first fiction I've written in a little over 10 years. I used to use the pen name Ansen Dibell, but my more recent stuff has been under my own name, which my first publisher discarded on the grounds that it reminded him too much of "a Victorian sofa."
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:34:47 GMT -5
Jeez, the body, er dust, isn't even cold yet.
Rusty Goode
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:35:29 GMT -5
Patti, I'm a bad judge of such things, so if I were in doubt, I would say Kristin/Wanda has some rumors about that, give no details beyond that, and maybe provide the URL so those who wanted to find out could, and the rest of us could remain happily in the dark with Cave Slayer. That way, everybody's safe. That's my best guess about it.... Nan
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:36:09 GMT -5
I think he confused you with Delma Davenport. Edited By Rusty Goode at 5/21/2003 9:56:00 PM.
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:37:13 GMT -5
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Post by Dalton on Apr 19, 2004 15:38:07 GMT -5
Rusty, as best I recall, my first novel came out about 1970, and things were a little less tight than they are now in many fields. I've never had an agent, for instance, and Romance is the only field I know of currently that will accept unagented submissions. Fantasy is currently a reasonably hot field. Once you have a decent first draft manuscript, you need to wave it at some appropriate readers (they call them betas now, I understand: computers are corrupting EVERYTHING!) and find out where the problems are, as opposed to "I like it/I don't like it" which is no help at all, though occasionally ego-gratifying. Then do your second draft and likewise try that. If you've then fixed all the problems you have the craft to identify and to repair, borrow/buy yourself a copy of the current Fiction Writers Market (Writers Market is available at all main branch libraries, some of which may also have Fiction Writers Market--there are fiction markets in WM, as well, it's just not as specialized) and find out what current submission practices and requirements are with the publishers you consider the most likely candidates. At which point, you will probably have to go shopping for an agent (Agents of North America is the listing to do that) and submit, submit, submit until you're heartily sick of all your characters and wish you'd shot yourself and made your life happier a long time ago. If you and I are still around on the S'cubie board when you have something finished enough to look at, I'll look at it in terms of marketability, provided you don't mind blunt weapons by way of critiques. Mostly, I used to write science fiction, but I read a lot of fantasy and certainly Old Blood is a fantasy, with magic, vampires, Slayers, an' all.... Is that yet more about rabbits (a la Anya) than you really care to know? Nan Dibble
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