Thank you

[smokingboot]

I wanted to comment back to everybody for being so supportive, but I found myself getting weird and weepy whenever I started (I began by answering the lovely erestania and then found I couldn't go on without turning into Gwyneth Paltrow).

Happy though it has made me (seems to have taken me 24 hours to realise I am happy) this is really a very tiny step. I have a long way to go.

I hope to thank you more warmly in person when I see you. To those of you who have asked for details, you may regret the question; I can babble for England and may well do so until, out of genteelly concealed boredom, you force alcohol/your tongue/someone else's tongue/my own words down my throat in an attempt to shut me up.

Until we meet, little words will have to do. Please accept my heartfelt thanks.

XXX

Comments

[spiraltower.livejournal.com]

See, now, I didn't express congratulations or the like, because I wasn't actually surprised. I love your writing (hence why I friend your LJ despite barely knowing you) and am not at all surprised a publisher wants to take you on.

But you've had stuff published before, yes? I'm not intending to do you down, just trying to understand why this is a bigger thing than you've previously experienced.

[larians.livejournal.com]

Do you still live in York? If so we really should make the effort to meet up outside of LRP to correct this lack of knowing people properly!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*grins* you say the nicest things! Yes I've had stuff published before, but it has all been based on someone else's work; The Batman I did was written with Pat Mills, whose ideas were very different to mine - the result wasn't something I cared for.

The Games Workshop stuff was based on one of their rp worlds, Necromunda; The Slaine work I did was based on the world Mills had created and the Game of Thrones stuff I did was again, based on George RR Martin's creation. The first was a comic, the others rpg supplementary material.

This is a novel, and it is all my little own, from start to finish, a world I created. Doubtless some will find it interminable because of that (some publishers described it as 'outre'!) but its weaknessses and flaws start and end with me.

*Big beam*

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

Boot mithered - 'I can babble for England and may well do so until, out of genteelly concealed boredom, you force alcohol/your tongue/someone else's tongue/my own words down my throat in an attempt to shut me up.'

Umm, blunt trauma to back of head? Or is that too provincial for a big name author? :-P
Congrats.

Tcha! You traditionalist!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Exactly what is wrong with feeding me vodka jellies till I fall over?

Re: Tcha! You traditionalist!

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

A/ cost, blunt trauma is cheaper
B/ a lack of vodka jellies

Re: Tcha! You traditionalist!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I'm worth a mere tuppence of vodka jelly!

Anyone would think we didn't know a purple dragon with a knack for this kind of thing!

Re: Tcha! You traditionalist!

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it`s no longer on my tab it`s now the outfits?

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Babbling for England is a vital artform and crucial for the well being of the nation. I do it myself as well along with the occasional Rant for England (or about England) which is also a time honoured tradition of this land. I for one would love to hear more details.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

The moment there is more to tell, I will bend your ear extensively with it!

A lot of it is inspired by Richard Dadd's fairy painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'. it's about fairies but they're not very nice.