Invisibility

[dancinghorse]

One of the beauties of writing in invisible ink is, you can do the most outrageous things. And nobody notices.

Quest for the Grail? Check.

Rehabilitate Bad King John? Check.

Moses = Akhenaten = Moses, complete with parting of the Red Sea? Check.

The Lionheart wins the Third Crusade? Twice? Oh yeah.

Now what shall I do next, that nobody notices?

Also, a question: Fairies. I don't get them. At all. And yet everybody's writing about them. What's with that?

Oh. Did them, too. Puca points if you saw through the cloak of invisibility to where.

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

ahem. I sense a certain level of frustration bordering on potential despair here.... Kingdom is sitting near my bed, waiting to be read.

and you know, I am trying to catch up on how many years of work? give a girl TIME.:D.

up with the chin! ;)

also, dumb ass publishers. and {{empathy}}. a dear friend sells christmas trees. She prunes them with care and puts on a campfire and has a sled for the kids and just does such a lovely set up. YOu choose a tree, and they are GORGEOUS, and they cut it for you.

She's had people walk off her property without buying a tree this year. For the first time ever. And she is just so hurt!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

also, I prolly shouldn't type when tired. hope this makes sense....

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

One of my publishers once said of me, "She might as well write in invisible ink for all the attention she gets. And I don't understand it."

Been stumbling across too many lists of books about this and authors who influenced that, and "nobody has ever done this" and "nobody ever does that."

Er, hello? Invisible author over here.

I've tried to change the style, the name, the subgenre--some success there. Still trying to figure out how to break through into visibility.

But apparently I kick ass as a test-passage writer. A mutant superpower! At last! Save the passage writer, save the world!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Why are people not buying this year? Her work is too perfect?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

re: last line: snort! :) I confess, Heros has left me cold... I haven't gotten past 5 mins of any ep....

and I am with your publisher in the befuddled category.... Also, when I am down, remind me to tell you about Mom and Shattered Dance (she liked, btw ;) and Luna is still REALLY REALLY DUMB). You will be amused.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Memories of the Minoans, underneath Rome? Wasn't that you?

The Horns of Hattin long before Orlando Bloom and Edward Norton?

Alexander in the desert?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

it was German families. Her trees "weren't the right colour" (Um, WTF?!! Trust me, they grow that colour!!) and they had sections where you could *gasp* see through them in places; they simply were Not. Dense. Enough. Also, they are not insanely expensive, so you know, they must be charlie-brown trees.

Sheila charges $26 a tree. Whatever tree. 4' or 8'. Flat rate. They sell 100 trees a year and get their farm tax status. That is ALL they care about, and they have fun doing it. Their new this year (or maybe last year?) competition up the road? STARTS at $40 a tree. Their trees are no nicer.... *sigh* People are dumb.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Can't ask for better proof that one is a writer's writer. (And writers of quality, too.) ;>

Usually it's enough, but once in a while the frustration breaks through.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'd buy one from her.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I Really wanted to write the rest of those books. Someday.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit abashed to admit I found you in the discount rack at Chapters. and didn't buy. Mom bought it after I looked multiple times.... (Lady of And I didn't read for the Longest. Time. *ashamed*

I actually found your work through Cairo, because of electricland who saw it at the Armstrong used book store and said i Must. Buy it. So I did. And loved it. And realized Lady was also buy you. And simultaneously, I found your journal, and well.... :) Blogsphere marketing works!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

ya, well. Someday SOOON. Because. Need. to Read. the Rest.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I have the Hound and Falcon books and the Alamut two. And I have read them TO DEATH.

I mean, I keep them handy on a shelf so I can grab small perfect Tarr Fixes when I need one, apart from regular rereadings.

Just saying.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

True story: I actually walked out of a movie so I could read Alamut.

The book had only just come out, and I was dying to crack the cover and sink my teeth into it, but I'd agreed to go see a movie with some friends after picking it up at the bookshop. Well, the film turned out to be (imo) bloody awful and after about twenty minutes I started wondering, why am I bothering to sit through this crap when I have a brand new book by one of my favorite authors burning a hole in my backpack? So, I told my friends I was going to curl up on a bench outside and read, and that is exactly what I did. I still think I got the better end of the deal.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

And nobody notices.

What am I, nobody?

The Hound and The Falcon trilogy survived even the hideous German translation, and that's saying something...

I blame you and Barbara Hambly's Darwath Trilogy in equal measures for my addiction to fantasy.


Rehabilitate Bad King John?

I've had a lifelong hatred for him, and I would have sworn it wasn't possible. That book was nothing short of a miracle, because if there ever was a biased reader, I'm it.

I liked White Mare's Daughter, but it's the semi-historicals that I want to read more of.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

One of my publishers once said of me, "She might as well write in invisible ink for all the attention she gets. And I don't understand it."

I don't understand it, either.

Well, at least I know why nobody is interested in _my_ mss - submitting it would help...

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Thus speaks the true readaholic...

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Hey, I caught the Moses-Akhenaten thing. And gave the book to friends, as well. (I haven't read the others.)

What I was saying was, in the patent Arturiana, it's all freaking Lancelot and Guenevere, and who gives a flying anymore? Played.

[sea-pony.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I have to say I've only just discovered you as an author recently this past September and then only through the Aurelian Empire as I was recuperating long hours -- no, days -- no, weeks on the sofa with a fractured rib from a fall from a horse with a tragic history (but that's a story for a longer, rambling reply). I devoured all three volumes of that series, and was delighted to find there's so much more. Need some time to save my pennies to buy the rest -- and oh yeah, a Lipizzaner too. ;)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

My abject apologies, by the way, for poor phrasing and insensitivity and being so enamored of Bors and Lionel and my own plot engine kicking over that I was hurtful. I'm very sorry, and I've amended my post.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

No fairies here.

Other things to do? Save Sir Phillip Sydney--make him a spy or something.

Boadicea kicks the Romans back to Rome.

Boethius cleans house.

Roland turns the tables at Roncevalles.

[serasempre.livejournal.com]

I was ecstatic when I found your LJ because I've loved your writing since the first book of the Hounds trilogy came out. I can remember being antsy at not being able to find the third one. They're on my list of "perfect" books, and you're on my list of authors I will always read. There are maybe 3 or 4 others on the list with you.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I keep hoping I can get the two Alamut books back into print. Maybe someday.

[faefall.livejournal.com]

Please, please, please don't write about fairies.

I've been reading your books for years and years. I've even passed you on to other people because your characters have...well...character.

Although I am annoyed at the bookstores because when I go in looking to find something of yours they almost never have anything. You are one of the better authors I've read but for some reason the people who are ordering books are not putting you on the shelves. Which lead me to look for you on Amazon which lead me to this LJ journal.

(But this leads to a question actually. I've recently re-read Alamut and Dagger and the Cross and I'm wondering something. Is there a book(s) wich concern the brothers before these two. I've not been able to find one if it exists.)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

You are right about that.

PMS at midnight can rot your brain. Just FYI and all that.