Maintenance

[pameladean]

I am extremely abashed and pleased at the kind responses to my last whiny post, both in comments and in email.

And the discussion of L.M. Montgomery and of comfort books is marvellous.

A bit before I posted that entry, I bethought me that even though the national and international situations are enough to make any person of sense at least briefly contemplate jumping off a cliff; and that even though my career is tottering and my personal life about to suffer a dislocation and my finances not worth speaking of for a moment, my reaction to all this still seemed a bit off. So, I thought, exercise? Well, no, not for a few days. Fresh vegetables? Well, only very intermittently. Vitamins? Well, no, not for a few weeks.

So I snagged somebody's B-complex (we're out of multivitamins) and made some curried okra and some potatoes with spinach (working on the principal of using up vegetables that weren't getting any fresher) and grimly started my daily walks up, despite the icky weather.

That helped a bunch. In consequence of all this and a late-night conversation with Eric, I wrote 700 words on the Liavek novel. So, I stick my tongue out in the universe's general direction.

Pamela

Comments

Liavek Novel

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanted to insert that every time I read those two words "Liavek novel" in your journal, I feel a little surge of joy and anticipation that makes me grab for my wallet. I desperately hope I'm not alone and fervently wish that some sensible publisher will give you buckets of cash for the priveledge of giving the world that book!

jeffy (http://tomecat.com/madtimes/)

Re: Liavek Novel

[pameladean]

As far as I can tell, the phrase "Liavek novel" is to publishers as a millstone around a book's neck. Ace had no idea what to do with those collections, and after the first few really didn't want them anyway, their inspirational editor having been fired. They didn't sell well at all. So they are not a good history to have. Well, it's too bad, but that's the book in my head.

Nobody will need to have read the originals to understand this book, but I hope having done so will provide some pleasant frissons.

Pamela