Delia Hits the Bigtime

[ellenkushner]

Yes, my spies really are everywhere. Hal Davis, Rewrite Editor for the Dayton Daily News, forwarded this from Wordsmith.org:

Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chaffer
This week's theme: verbs.

chaffer (CHAF-uhr) verb tr., intr.
   1. To haggle; to bargain.
   2. To bandy words; to chatter.
noun
   Bargaining or haggling.

[From Middle English chaffare, eventually from Old English ceap
(trade, purchase), precursor of English cheap + faru (journey).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=chaffer
-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)

  "I chaffered with the king of those people, who was a wise and far-sighted
   woman, and brought her to understand that it would be much to her
   advantage to accept from me half the arms and ammunition I had brought
   with me."
   Delia Sherman; The Parwat Ruby; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall,
   Connecticut); June 1999. [It was reprinted in that year's YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, as I recall - ek]

Comments

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Go Delia!

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

BTW, my library system got a copy of TPOTS. It's waiting for me at my library. Alas, I have not yet read Swordspoint. Will I be hopelessly lost if I read them out of order?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

No, you won't be, not at all. Unlike a lot of series being written these days, these books are *not* essentially one novel in 3 (or more) volumes. Each one stands alone.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Excellent!