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Etsy Finds, Part I
I've been working on my yarn business again lately. This means time on Etsy, (oh perilous place, and sly) and trying to network my way into sales.
I've discovered quite a few things to love along the way. Backfiring? I don't know... having things I want to buy, to motivate me to do better at selling isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Right?
Right?!
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I'm sad about a few things right now...
genuinely sad in little ways, not depressed.
It's odd to be used to mild depression and have to think, to recognize sadness. We don't respect sadness as a culture. That's twisted.
I am sad.
A professor with a huge influence over me, and my best friends, and my mother and people who never heard his name died the ( Read more... ) -
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"Orson Scott Card sold a new steampunk series aimed directly at the YA market to Anica Rissi at Simon & Schuster's Pulse. Agent Barbara Bova of the Barbara Bova Literary Agency sold World English rights to the first three books in the as-yet-untitled series, which is scheduled to debut, in hardcover, in Spring 2011." {rest of the article}
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Silas had been kept up with growing pains
Happy November!
I did get to write a little PrePoisson this morning before work. Right now I'm writing my Steampunk One-Act Musical, or the short story version. It is the story of a Kidnapped Sky-Pirate Gypsy Princess Engineer, piloting an airship under duress for a Runaway Prisoner Orphan Officer Rake. They will encounter Sheep.
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My steampunk novel simmers, sticky there
and ready, launching evolutions strange
And brass lamps, mist and bursts of flame now haunt
The crannies of my mind to birth, devour.
This is actually an exercise in iambic pentameter from The Ode Less Travelled. I've been inching my way into it, in my endeavor to take myself more seriously as a poet. More ( Read more... )
