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[fredericks]

Lemonade! Wants it! My precious!

Hot like burning right now. I'd be enjoying it more if my house had central air. Or if I had powerful fan. As it is my very cute ceiling fan with blades shaped like leaves (my bedroom is painted in shades of green, I thought I was making a wonderful decorating statement) is doing nothing but circulating oven hot air. It's seriously like sitting underneath the set dryer in a beauty parlor. I'd love a stray thunderstorm to roll through sometime soon.

Because I have the attention span of a gnat I started another book this morning, the first Cal Leandros book, Nightlife. More fluff (I read so much escapist literature it's not even funny), and for some reason the story along with the author's prolific output (five books in the series over the last four years) reminds me of Butcher's Dresden books. But I'm totally sucked in, to the point where I went down to B&N during lunch and picked up every paperback Leandros book currently out. Obviously my reading list isn't long enough.

And, uhm, I signed up at smallfandomfest to write some stuff this summer. Yikes? Begone, Writer's Block! Hopefully.

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[paradise-city.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. The author of those books is crazycakes. She's been all up in wank lately.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I did a quick Google search (sans PacMan distraction, boo-hoo!), and found some maybe sorta wank but more along the lines of very overenthusiastic writer who obviously has kept up with fandom's nuttiness. Am I missing something? It would take douchebaggery on the level of, say, Gabaldon and Card* before I label a writer crazycakes.

*edited to correct - Gabaldon and Card, btw? Not in the same league, and I sorely regret even the implication in my comment. I object to Card's beliefs, philosophy, and religion on a deeply personal level. "Douchebag" doesn't encapsulate it at all. Gabaldon, on the other hand? total D-bag.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

From Fandom Wank: Rob Thurman yells at a fan for buying her book too early. It's not quite as bad as the write-up suggests, but there's a lot of author entitlement happening.

It was wicked hot here yesterday, too: 95, I think. Ick.

What fandom(s) are you writing for?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I mean, I still don't necessarily consider that wank-worthy. Silly? Yes. Maybe there's humor involved? Perhaps. But she comes across as still wading in the nutty fandom pool, so the exuberance is to be expected (imo, of course).

And I'm doing Dresden Files. Because I'm a sap and completely predictable.
You should join in too. There are about 3000 (!) prompts to choose from in various fandoms.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Since high school I've written exactly one fanfic, and it was for an anonymous kinkmeme, and I'm pretty sure it sucked. I don't know if I want my name attached to anything I've written :-/

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm putting my arse out there. I bet you're better than you let on.

[paradise-city.livejournal.com]

Here's the writeup on Fandom Wank. If I recall correctly, she really got into with with some folks who left bad reviews on Amazon, but I can't find them anymore. It was her behavior there that really turned me off to her.

...Card? I think I'm missing the reference.

ETA: A-ha! Found it. Authors getting snippy about reviews is one of my giant pet peeves.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Okay, that whole Amazon thread was a bit wanktastic. I do wonder if that was actually Thurman herself? Although I'd think if it wasn't her she would have announced as much somewhere on the interwebs.

Btw - I'm halfway through the second book in the Cal Leandros series at the moment and I'm forcing myself to finish because the plot has lost all momentum and I bought the other four available books and now am stuck with them.

Card = Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and staunch Mormon with antigay views. (http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/7/orsonscottcard)

[paradise-city.livejournal.com]

...the plot has lost all momentum and I bought the other four available books and now am stuck with them.

I hate it when that happens. I hesitate to read a lot of the Star Wars stuff I loved when I was younger because of that problem.

And thanks for the Card link. I remember reading something about it when it first came out, but I was busy and it didn't quite register on my radar. Crazy.

[missjhyde.livejournal.com]

Thunderstorms are supposed to come through tomorrow night. I hear you on the heat -- thank God my hubby put in the big wall unit today. Otherwise myself and the little squirt would be in miserable shape right now. What part of the metro area are you living in? I'm right off exit 64 on the LIE

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Dude, you're all the way out on the island. *grin* I'm in Queens. It's oppressive. Like, Monty Python sketch-level oppression going on with the heat right about now. I'm tempted to take a cold shower, but then you just end up sweating more when you get out.

[mysticalchild_isis]

Seriously, this weather needs to stop. I moved to New England to get away from the horrible, sticky heat. I do not approve.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I almost feel bad about complaining, because I hate to be one of those folks who grumble about any temperature outside of the 50-75 range. But waking up in a pool of sweat? Not cool, Earth.