Another Short & Sweet one

[ellen_kushner]

Told you there was more!

So the Swordspoint crazyweek continues:  On Monday, Fantasy Magazine online reprinted my story "The Swordsman Whose Name was not Death."  This is the first Riverside/Richard & Alec story I wrote after writing Swordspoint (and swearing I would never, no never, write anything more about them!).  It contains the seeds of The

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Give the Gift of, um, making sure my producer & I get paid:

[ellen_kushner]

Sources close to the - ah, the source? - tell me:

"Audible has a new gift center where fans can give single audiobooks (or even an Audible Listener Membership) to their loved ones. And every time a *new* Audible Listener Member chooses SWORDSPOINT as one of their first three listens, it triggers a bounty payment . . . . "*

I trust I make myself clear?

*Actually, this makes me think of J. M. Barrie: "Every time a child says, 'I don' t believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. " Only, you know, different.

[rymenhild]

Clear! So clear that I have just now written to my mother and requested an Audible membership for Chanukah...

[ellen_kushner]

::sniffle::

Thanks!

Re: Give the Gift of, um, making sure my producer & I get paid:

[aynatonal]

I am now a brand new Audible Listener Member and Swordspoint is downloading right now as my first purchase. Get that bounty, lady!

[copperwise]

Actually it's orizarising here at HQ with me. talkstowolves is our intrepid field help in Atlanta, though I sure WISH she was here at HQ!

<3

[ellen_kushner]

I meant, of course, the *virtual* HQ, she sniffed.

Dame Maggie does not approve of being forgotten.

[orizarising]

whatevs, whatevs, no love for me. i see how it is.

Re: Dame Maggie does not approve of being forgotten.

[ellen_kushner]

Well, ha ha, I am putting your name (who knew you were LJ??) in there now, and so now no one will know what you are bitching about and will think you are a looneytunes.

Happy now?

Wtf how dare you speak that way to Hyacinth?

[orizarising]

Don't make me tell everyone your postcard auction is actually a plot to send them the black plague.

COS I CAN DO IT.

Re: Wtf how dare you speak that way to Hyacinth?

[ellen_kushner]

But who will believe you?

Cos everyone knows that plague is brought by men on horseback in streaming black cloaks, skull masks & scary swords with some kind of cool emblem on the hilt.