Black Friday Giveaway - Shards and other stuff

[ashr501]

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[eneit]

Huge congratulations for getting thus far with the Stoker notice. *g*

[ashr501]

Thanks, Sharyn!

I received a couple of copies of IBD2 in the mail the other day too! Thank you so much :)

[ashr501]

Don't think you have to worry too much about Failure as a Writer, Joanne! I'm loving every new story of yours that finds publication :)

Thanks for your response though, will choose a winner later tonight.

[ashr501]

"But you don't get to hear the writerly angst, or see the stressing and constant email and/or phone checking."

Ahh, but I get to live that part too, double-fold, as both a writer and illustrator. My wife DOES think I'm crazy, but she's extremely supportive anyway :)

[gillpolack]

One Toronto summer, I waited 45 minutes at the butcher's. I called out and I bobbed up and down and I waved my hands. Invisible.

I realised then that my greatest fear is being invisible. I spent chunks of my life being talked over, walked over, with achievements passed over. I was given reasons, from religion to "You are clever, you don't need compliments." These reasons were all merely excuses. This built up to that time in the butcher's.

People still sometimes act as if I don't exist. My existence is occasionally moot. I have, however, named the fear.

[gillpolack]

PS Sorry about the first post!

[ashr501]

No problem at all.

And thank you so much for the copy of LtC! So great to actually hold a real copy in my hands :) It is on my TBD pile for as soon as I finish the new Stephen King epic.

[gillpolack]

Didn't you read it? or are you someone who reads the printed book differently to the e-version?

Biggest Fear

[anonymous]

The old Egdar Allan Poe 'buried alive' scenario would have to be my biggest fear. Combines claustrophobia with a fear of wriggling slivering creepies. And the odds on of not getting out alive. Has it all in spades.....