Privilege/Paris

[ellenkushner]

"PRIVILEGE has to be the first sword fight epic I've ever seen in which nobody dies in a sword fight." -- Jack McDevitt (personal communication, 2/10/07)

Funny . . . I hadn't thought of that! But Jack's right.

I've been getting some interesting feedback from people as they read TPOTS trying to figure out whether they want to vote it onto the Nebula Awards Ballot (when are ballots due?) - but Jack's the best!

Paris is wonderful. deliasherman will tell you all about it.

Comments

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

WELCOME HOME, Ms. Kushner! :D We've all missed you bunches! (This one will not ask you how Paris was, and visit Ms. Sherman for it instead. =3)

Mr. Jack IS correct, but that's what makes TPotS so delectable! (D

I met a local authoress on Thursday who lives in Paris on and off, but she was a bit disappointing, and didn't say very much about it. ^^;

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Don't worry; if we ever meet in person, I will talk so much about Paris it will make you tired. One of my favorite things to do is to tell anyone who mentions they might be going there where to eat and shop and look and walk. . . . Your local author was probably just jet-lagged or afraid of boring you or something.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, Paris DOES sound lovely. ^^ Just one question: is the champagne there like Sprite, like people say?

Ohhh, I seriously doubt Madame Authoress was concerned about boring her audience: she would not stop going on and on to my mother about her unfascinating job at the racetracks. Not.

Ms. Kushner, I have a question: did you ever have trouble in school with research projects and difficult reports, even though you're such a good authoress?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Like Sprite in a good way, or like Sprite in being all sweet & sugary (bad)?

Ohhhhhh, honey . . . I was the world's worst writer of reports!!! Essays, too - I could never get the hang of what they were trying to get me to do! Making stuff up and writing it down is much easier (though truth be known, it took me forever to finish any of the stories I started back then, so I guess I was lousy at that, too.) I would always wait til the last minute to start my research project, and then not have enough time, and panic, and cry, and turn something in so late sometimes they lowered my grade. I can't believe no one ever figured out what a disaster I was and tried to teach me how to actually do schoolwork, but they didn't. That's the trouble with being clever and writing very good sentences, I guess; people don't realize you're not screwing up on purpose! I was halfway through college before I figured out how to write a research paper.

Does that help, or just make it worse?

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

No, it helps tons! ^^ It means I could actually be a good authoress one day!

I just have issues with focus: I'll start on a paper and then lack discipline to keep on with it (because there's always something around that's more fun to do!) It's only three more months until I'm out of secondary education, so most of the teachers at my high school have given up on my class (how we achieved the highest scores in the state, I will never know, with educators like these...) but just recently my ASL teacher pulled me aside about my lack of...well, results...in the mountains of research papers she has our class write. I felt like a little kid again, all insecure, it was weird. So I was just wondering if maybe I was the only one around who can write fiction (not that much of that gets finished, either...) but has a mental roadblock with serious papers.

Thank you, Ms. Kushner! :3

[temporus.livejournal.com]

FYI, your nebula link has an extra . at the end.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks - just fixed it, I hope.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that didn't work either.

This was what I was able to find, hope it's what you are talking about.

http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2007/NebPrelim2006.html

[klages.livejournal.com]

The deadline for voting for the Preliminary Nebula ballot, which TPOTS is already on, has passed, I think. (My recollection was that it was Feb. 12th.)

So the Final Nebula Ballot should be announced in the next week or two, and it's my fervent hope that TPOTS is on it, as well.

BTW, I just realized, as I was typing, that in my head I pronounce the acronym for your fine book as TEAPOTS, which is not at all inappropriate.

TEAPOTS

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Hey, why not? I do!

Fingers crossed & teeth gnashed for good Nebula outcomes for all of us!