A mini cooking rant for an (almost) late night: When I go searching for a recipe, I use any user ratings as a guideline - the higher the rating, the more likely I am to read the recipe in full. I particularly enjoy reading the comments left by people who've actually made the recipe themselves. Usually, there's a lot of useful information in ( Read more... )

Don't worry, there are smelling salts available for those who've passed out from the shock of seeing me post twice in six days. ~grin~ ) And since I'll be discussing personal and fandom stuff, I'm cutting this so that people who are interested in just the fandom stuff can skip the personal.

( Personal here )

I promised a longer post, and so here it is. ;) It's a few days late, but things have been busy. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of truly interesting news to tell you. I've been dealing with personal stuff, but who hasn't? So many other people have been handling more traumatic events than anything I've been through recently, so bemoaning the ( Read more... )

A fair percentage of my flist is working on original fiction, and I have several published authors on my flist. Some are published in print, some are digitally published (or e-published, if you prefer), and some are both. Today, though, I'm going to focus on digital publishing.

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During Portus, droxy surprised bloodcult by appearing as the Severus Snape from Seven Preposterous Things. It was an amazing performance, and I think that everyone involved enjoyed it immensely. Before I left on Sunday, I had the opportunity to speak to droxy again, and she mentioned something that surprised me. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to ( Read more... )

( Soapbox time! )

I try to be a nice person. (I'm not fishing for confirmation one way or the other here. I'm aware that like most people I can sometimes be nice and sometimes be a bitch, but just go with me on this one, okay?) I really try to be a nice person, but damned if this sshg_exchange hasn't caused me to pull my hair out recently. How ginny_weasley31 and shiv5468 have done it year after ( Read more... )

I was talking to whitemunin earlier this morning and remembered that I'd written this ages ago, but never posted it. It came about during the last round of the exchange when I was getting burnt out to the point of being crispy around the edges, and I wanted something to read that wasn't HP-related, so I poked around a bit in the PotC fandom. I found some ( Read more... )

HarperCollins has released a multi-media version of an ebook that will allow the author to "pop up onscreen at various points in the novel to talk candidly about the plot's turning points and her vivid characters ( Read more... )

I'm 3,317 words into my sshg_exchange fic, and for me that's pretty good since I write so slowly. The outline is done, the writing is going well, and I'm hoping that my recipient likes it when it's done. It's light romantic comedy - marshmallow creme fluff, actually - but I might as well just accept that no matter how much I enjoy reading angsty plotty fics, ( Read more... )