This is a picture of Chay, the Youngest Sinister Fate
superstition: Coffee drinkers: if bubbles flat towards you, money is on the way. But if you stir your coffee (or any other drink) with a knife, you'll get a stomach ache.
everyday omen: I have two this time, both found in a parking lot. One was a tiny feather. This reminds me of two things: "It isn't the feather, it's you who can fly" (from Dumbo); and Richard Bach's book Illusions, where a feather is the answer to: Prove I can I manifest anything. Looking at them together, I think the message is basically the same. Believe in my talent and abilities.
Second everyday omen, a package of salt. Salt of the earth. Salt is protection. Being below or above the salt is status. The salt was at my foot as I stepped out of my car, so I'll go with status. I am at the salt. This reminds me of a dream I took as confirmation of having made a major change I didn't think I could ever make. (The dream image was teeth coming out in a set of four, then, in the dream, I still had all my teeth, too.)
writer tidbits from various sources:
..South American writer, Kathleen Lindsey wrote 904! novels between 1903 and 1973. Yipe!
..If you think that is high, Maria del Socorro Tellado Lopaz published more than 4000 novels between 1927 and 2009 (Most of that time is precomputer, people!)
..Earle Stanley Gardner sometimes worked on as much as 7 novels at once...but he only put out 104 books. (And those were rather short.)
..For Issac Asimov I have two numbers. One source says he wrote 200 books, another says 400. I don't what the discrepancy is. Someone couldn't count? Or someone only counted one type of book?
..Crime writers sell, on an average, about 1500-10,000 soft cover mysteries per book.
The most borrowed genres in fiction, from libraries are: Romance, Historical, Fantasy, and Crime, in that order. (9 out of 10 borrowers are women.)
Thoughts: I am considering putting a novel in process up serial on this blog. What do you think? Any suggestions of what series? I am working on a Miss Kitty, Beacon Book, and a Younger Fates Entire story next. Or, I suppose it could be nonfiction, I have a sort your life out self-help book I am wrestling with.
Sara, The Artist: I got all my calendar pictures done, draft printed and painted...so I can make corrections. I have one I don't like enough to redraw it. My art energy has been low. I took time off. It is still low. Time to find some encouragement!
Sara, The Writer: What is with Byran's last story? If it isn't a computer problem, it's a backup not there after all problem, and Monday last it was an electric company shut power off just as I was getting ready to close down. I lost the document and the backup. Argh. I had the day before's back up in plain text at least. I am editing so I only lost a day's editing work...but adding that to the other lost work days, I wonder again: What is with this story!
Other than that, I am getting one book (one in the Beacon series, The Horns of Dilemma, which is Megan's story) ready to send to my outside reader, and one (Miss Kitty Mystery # 10, Races & Rogues) I am printing my first paper copy to slash and dice...
This all means, I haven't been writing...only editing. Dare I say, the less I write, the less sane I am???
Did I say that Wishing is up on Smashwords and Barnes & Noble? And Byran's book 4 (Byran Spiritsong) is out in the print version.
Happy May 17, the Festival of Roses honoring Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowers...of which my yard is full: fire crackers, jasmine, plumbago, hibiscus. No roses, I don't do plants that need any kind of real care.
Merry May, hope the last of your spring is full of cheer!
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