Personal note; Barnes & Noble book update...
There has been a development in the ongoing saga of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense -- the first book in the GAVSD series, and the one that you've been helping me keep track of. My agent called last night to tell me that Barnes & Noble definitely wants to do a revised second edition, and that final details will be coming my way in a few days.

Now I know from long experience that no deal is final until the contracts are signed by all parties involved. And I know that even then the deal sometimes isn't final. [Ask any writer who's had a contract with a publisher that went bankrupt or a publisher that was swallowed up by a bigger publisher, or any writer whose editor on a contract has moved on to some other publisher.] Chickens, my friends, I most definitely do not count until they're hatched.

But things look good at this point; it's encouraging. I'm encouraged enough to be actively trying to figure out where in my work schedule I can put this new project...



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Nonfiction online: "How Verbal Self-Defense Works" at http://people.howstuffworks.com/vsd.htm ; "Why Are Old Women Older Than Old Men And How Can We Fix That?" at http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/articlesElginOld.html ; Religious Language Newsletter archive at http://www.forlovingkindness.org . Fiction online: "We Have Always Spoken Panglish" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Story-Panglish.html ; "What The EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them" at http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/epa.htm ; "Weather Bulletin" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Weather.html ; "A Quorum Of Grandmothers" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/QuorumOfGrandmothers.html ; The Communipaths at http://www.jackiepowers.com/SuzetteHadenElgin/TheCommunipaths.html . More stuff at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/SiteMap.html ; LiveJournal blog index at http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ozarque .