Sparrowind published

[jordan179]

I was recently made happy and proud to learn that my good friend cutelildrow had written and e-published a novella.  The book is Sparrowind, and it's about a young dragon who tries a new approach to life based on what he finds in books.  I've bought it and hope to review it within a few days.  I hear her sales are already climbing and that the book is likely

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[inverarity]

Well, I may give it a try. I'm trying to give self-publishing a fair chance.

I have to say, though, I hope the reference to Jonathan Livingston Seagull was a joke.

[inverarity]

It's probably not.

[jordan179]

And that would be terrible. Because Rory had forty print copies == as many as four times ten -- and Lex Luthor stole them all!

[jordan179]

The reference by whom ... Yama?

[inverarity]

Well, I guess he brought it up, but you and cutelildrow said it's a favorable comparison? I mean, sorry, I know a lot of people love Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but I hated that syrupy New Age thing (although a lot of that is because so many people were passing it around as this deeeeep and profound book and it spawned all these banal motivational posters clinging to cubicle walls to this day, and I thought it was a twee allegory about seagulls.)

If the book is about non-twee dragons, though, I'm game.

[banner]

Did you ever read Jonathan Livingston Seagull? It's not a new aged religion book at all. It's a book about Christ and Christianity done via the medium of flying. New age stuff really hadn't gotten started at that point, and the guy who wrote the story was a former Air Force pilot who had written a lot of stories about flying prior to that one coming out and taking off.

[inverarity]

I did read it, a long time ago. The author may have intended it as a Christian allegory, but my (admittedly vague) recollection is that it was written to be open-ended, and I know a lot of New Age types who latched onto it.

[inverarity]

So it's a trite Christian allegory rather than a trite New Age allegory?

[jordan179]

I don't know about "trite," but it's rather Christian. I'll also point out that Christian and New Age aren't as much opposites as some people claim -- the two philosophical approaches have influenced one another, most obviously because New Age was created within a Christian society and argued to people with fundamentally Christian assumptions; less obviously because "New" Age has been around long enough now that it's influenced many Christians as well.

[inverarity]

Oh, it's definitely trite.

[jordan179]

... and your mere expressed opinion, unsupported by any facts or arguments, is relevant because ...?

[banner]

But you haven't even read it yet, so how would you know?

[cutelildrow]

Uh, you do realize that it's Yama, and he has never read the book I wrote. Yama refuses to read it in fact. He says he'd rather kill himself than read it, and he's the one comparing it to JLS.

It's not a comparison of stories because the stories have nothing in common, but rather, I said it's not an INSULT (or put down) if the guy who has been stalking me all over the Internet and is trying to drive me off the 'net is trying to use it as one. Rather, the fact that he chose to compare it to a book that sold millions of copies... How is that going to be taken as an insult by me? "This book is going to sell" is not an insult.

(Coffee. Coffee is good. Excuse me.)

[jordan179]

It's Yama's attempt at an insult. I wonder if he read Jonathan Livingston Seagull either, or he just scorns it because he's heard it's hip to scorn it. Actually, I sometimes wonder if Yama has any opinions based on his first-hard experience at all, or everything he says is just Received Wisdom.

[the_mcp]

I'd rather that Yamallamadingdong kill himself rather than read it too. :D Unfortunately, he's just like the leftist nimrods who're always threatening to move to some other country if we don't give them what they want; he'll stamp his little foot and throw a tantrum, but he doesn't have the integrity or courage of his convictions to actually follow through on it.

[cutelildrow]

He doesn't have integrity, he's quite proud of the lack. As for courage, that would require balls, and considering that he spent enough time staring at the crotches of my drawings of male characters so that he could COMPLAIN about loins (see further up the thread) I think he's tacitly admitting he doesn't have any...