Gentle Reader, tomorrow (Tuesday Feb. 23) I am doing a special event in San Francisco, CA at 6:00 PM at Borderlands Books.
This sponsor ONLY panel features yours truly with Richard Kadrey and Pat Murphy: Been There, Done That, Wish I Hadn’t. We’ll share our worst career mistakes, as well as advice we wish someone had given us from the start.
Borderlands Sponsor Program is a community grassroots experiment to save a wonderful San Francisco SF/F bookstore. (Here are details about what benefits sponsors receive. Here is information about how the sponsor program came about.)
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My very first bookstore reading at Borderlands in 2009. (Crazy Hair!) |
Can’t Make It?
Here are something to read on the subject.
- 25 More Hard Truths About Writing and Publishing
- Print/Bookstores/Reviewing/Blogging/Everything is Dead
- Traditional Publishing, Non-Compete Clauses, & Rights Grabs
- Nearly Every Author Needs to Consider Being a “Hybrid” Author
{Gail’s monthly read along for February is Terrier: The Legend of Beka Cooper Book 1 by Tamora Pierce.}
GAIL’S DAILY DOSE
Your Moment of Parasol . . .
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1820 Harvard Art Museums @harvartmuseums Portrait by itinerant, self-taught painter Ammi Phillips. |
Your Infusion of Cute . . .
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Everything a #19thcentury soldier needs is in this Wooden Toilet Case from 1801-1830. Image via @wellcometrust |
Your Tisane of Smart . . .
Hackney Cab vs. Hackney Coach
Your Writerly Tinctures . . .
PROJECT ROUND UP
- Imprudence ~ Custard Protocol Book the Second. Edit pass. Releases July 19, 2016 in print & eBook to US.
- Poison or Protect ~ A Delightfully Deadly Novella. Reworking & trimming. Release date to come. Gail’s first foray into hybrid land, featuring a grown up and several-times widowed Preshea and the gentle Scottish captain who could change everything.
Gail Carriger’s Scribbles!
Book News:
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FS FAn Art ace-artemis-fanartist- Sophronia and Soap from the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger |
Quote of the Day:
‘Why, Miss Roxborough!’
‘Why not?’ I said.
‘Don’t you remember me?’
I didn’t.
~ The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
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I think a right venue is very important for any event that you want to celebrate with your loved ones. I remember spending so much time to find a good event space NYC for my cousin for their wedding. At last, got a very good deal.