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Touching the Face of God: Part I

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 11:30

Like Edgar Allen Poe*, I pride myself on being able to describe anything via the written word. But my confidence in my descriptive powers is a little bit shaken as I put the fingers to the keyboard to recount my first experience hang-gliding.

Psychological post-apocalyptic

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 11:34

Back to the joy of genre I guess... while figuring out how to promote my online works online (and elsewhere) I've had to sweat how to describe my writing. And I don't think I've figured out a good way yet. It's partly my own insecurities, which inhibit me always in describing what I do, but it's also that the Chevenga books were marketed as fantasy, but (as I wrote elsewhere) they aren't really, and they aren't typical of science fiction either.

Yes, I revise things

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 12:21
I'm that kind of writer. I can't look at something I've written, even five minutes ago, and not find something I want to change. You might say therefore I'm not suited to writing an online serial novel; and yet you might say I am. Because, on the Internet, revising the published (i.e. posted) version is not only possible but quick and easy. I lovethat.

So don't be surprised if something has changed a bit when you reread a post. Or if you spot a typo but then go back again and it's gone.

What do I mean by 'fantasy fiction for Dems'

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 12:32

Originally posted on Daily Kos, 11:00:24 AM EDT April 17 2009

As a Kossack since 2003 or so and an online novelist for about a month, I naturally had Kos come immediately to mind when I was thinking about how to promote my work. The catch-sig-line "Fantasy fiction for Dems" popped into my head immediately.

I know intuitively what that means to me, but it occurred to me an explanation might be in order in case the line looks too much like pandering to the Kossack masses. So here it is.

Everything I need to know I'm learning in Analytics

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 08:07
Google Analytics really is the most amazing service. Shirley and I have found it necessary to become a two-person support group re the googleanalyticoholism problem that we're both experiencing. The urge to go on and see how many hits we got today is irresistible. So is the urge, for me at least, to allow my mood to directly correlate with the ups and downs on those little graphs.

The joy of genre

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 07:37

When people ask me what kind of books I've published, I generally tell them 'fantasy,' toeing the party line of the marketing classification they were given by my publisher (and, not to single out Baen, probably would have been given by any publisher).

Legal matters

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 06:23

It was a coincidence, I guess, one of those confluences that nature furnishes unawares, tempting us to see it as replete with meaning, that both of yesterday's posts were about specific pieces of legislation posing Chevenga problems.

[Disclaimer: IANALBIWOIAPLNS (I am not a lawyer but I was one in a past life, nuff said).]

The pic

Submitted by karenwehrstein on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 15:33

See what happened was that my laptop is a Dell and I've noticed it getting... well, not screaming hot, but... pretty hot. And then when I went looking for an image of a Dell laptop to put in front of Chevenga, as he blogs in my kitchen, in his bloggles, I was amazed at the number of images I found of Dells in flames, or in ashes.

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