Nicole’s Comments (group member since Jun 18, 2010)

Nicole’s comments from the Q&A with Josh Lanyon group.

Antonella wrote: But I want to pre-order the print edition *whines*

Hey Antonella: The print addition is now available to order here:

https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mayhem-F...

(It's not as economical as the digital tho. *sorry!*)

Johanna wrote: "Blog post from Josh — New Releases: MAGIC AND MAYHEM and NIGHT WATCH

http://joshlanyon.blogspot.fi/2016/07..."

Yay!

Psst--

Josh has an original short story in this anthology.

It's up for preorder now. :)

Magic And Mayhem: Fiction and Essays Celebrating LGBTQA Romance

Antonella wrote: "Elisa Rolle published 3 volumes of Queer Places, with in total some 1500 pages of a kind of a queer travel guide:

developed in 3 volumes, United States of America (1), United King..."
That looks really cool.

Laid up after foot surgery, I ran out of stuff to watch then took a chance on season three of Agents of Shield (which I hadn't bothered to watch the first 2 seasons of. I struck gold in that I managed to accidentally choose the season that introduces their gay character. Yay!

Calathea wrote: "Is this story published? I would love to read it. :-) "

Aw, thanks!

Kirsten wrote: "This is going to sound odd, but one of the things I like best about The Administration series is how they work Toreth's job and career politics into it. "

Several of my friends who work in offices have said this very same thing. So, not that odd at all. :)

Susan wrote: "Your fans await!"

hahahahahaha! I don't even know how any person would write that story. It would have to be like, in meta-text or something otherwise it would be like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPZ5...

Susinok wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Or with food distro there could be something having to do with disaster relief...."

During Hurricane Katrina, we were shipping groceries from Dallas, Arkansas, and Houston over to L..."

Right, see? That would be a really cool thing for a protag to know/do.

Jordan wrote: "Uh, guys, authors, I see a story line coming along here about a guy on an Author Disciplinary Board... And maybe he falls for the author he has to write up for misrepresenting a character's job, wh..."

To me, it seems like the title of this one would be "Ghost Writer."

Harvey Bangwaller, Editor at large (emphasis on LARGE) is a take-no-prisoners kind of editor, happy to dispense justice with a stroke of his pen--or any other instrument he has handy.

But when quasi-literate cutie Monte Bellini's manuscript comes across his desk he finds that some authors are too hot to handle and too adorable to admonish. He gets Monte a second chance by requesting time for a revision.

Through instructing Monte, Harvey begins to love stories again. But as he deadline for resubmission approaches, an chance meeting with a nun triggers Monte's unhappy memories of years at Catholic school. As his spelling grows worse and worse, Harvey must step in to finish.

Can Harvey correct all the grammatical errors in Monte's manuscript before the deadline for review?

Josh wrote: "I think my favorite chef series was Poppy Z. Brite's New Orleans series. "

That is a really good one, yeah. :)

Susinok wrote: "Why do jobs always have to be either glamorous (chef, firemen, police, etc) or total crap jobs that get left behind. Why not an intermediate job like an admin or, I dunno, something more middle of ..."

I'm with Josh in that probably they're just easier to understand. If you have somebody being an admin or civil servant or what-have-you then you have the burden of explaining an entire industry or government agency so that the reader can understand how great the protag is at his/her job. However it would be really cool if that could be pulled off somehow.........

Like if there could be a story about pushing a crucial infrastructure thing like a road or a bridge to an under-served community where ambulance access is leading to untimely deaths.

Or with food distro there could be something having to do with disaster relief.

Or accounting with finding fraud.

Or teaching with helping a non-English speaker keep their job.

But it would require a lot more research and skill with creating tension around selling realistic situations in a way that they can still be escapist.

That's what I think anyway.

Susinok wrote: "And when they are happy with you, they feed you. :) "

I know, right? For the most ill-tempered of them its the only real way to tell whether or not they like someone.

Josh wrote: "I'm always surprised that so few authors utilize such a great source of material. "

Me too. Maybe it's because there are a lot of writers who don't have other careers--like in fields unrelated to writing that have stuff like regulations and disciplinary hearings.

Although just imagine if novel writing HAD disciplinary hearings! ("You have shown repeated violations of section 1.12 of the novelistic code which states that tense shall not change mid-sentence. You will receive a demotion, reduction of pay and mark in on your permanent record.")

As a side note, I'm glad that the trend of having characters be chefs has more or less passed because I was getting so frustrated by the gross errors in hierarchy, food safety and temperament being written. It got to the point where I was just skimming along the stories to see how many pages in I could get before the main character would be fired. I can only imagine what it must be like for real LE people to try and read a story.

Anne wrote: "And that last one, is one of my biggest peeves of all. As a professional myself, I grit my teeth sometimes when I see what the authors get up to. I like the idea of the conflict of interest as a plot device, but it is only interesting if the protagonist at least shows a modicum of professionalism in his or her thought processes. :) "

Right! I think most professionals experience conflict of interest--I mean, there wouldn't need to be a term for it if it wasn't common--so that's very relatable but only interesting if the conflict remains a... well, conflict, you know?

Antonella posts link to my post...

Thank you for continuing to read and share Binky and Brutus, everybody. :) They're really fun to write and its good to know that people enjoy them.

Carlita wrote: "Productive
(My grandparents had a farm outside of Boise and my sister was born there, Nicole :-) )"

I'm leaving today, sure I've missed some cool parts of the town, but happy I found others. :)

Boise.

Josh wrote: "Amazon and B&N do not give that option."

I totally get why they don't but it is so, so irritating--I mean as a fellow indie pub trying to sell books.

Johanna wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Yeah, listen to them, Nicole. *tries to catch Nicole's ankle and pull her back to the land of apple blossoms and sunshine* "

It's no use. I must go to my fate..... B..."

:)