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Shipments of 9.7-inch e-book readers to grow 300% on year in 2010, says Digitimes Research
Dec 31, 11:44
Shipments of 9.7-inch e-book readers are expected to grow 300-320% on year in 2010 and the surging demand may cause Prime View International (PVI) to face a capacity shortage, according...
LG Display targets 20% of EPD market in 2010, says CEO
Dec 29, 11:23
LG Display (LGD) expects its share of the global e-paper display (EPD) market to reach 20% in 2010, up from 15% in 2009, according to company CEO Kwon Young Soo at the signing of...
Taiwan forms e-reading industry alliance
Dec 22, 14:51
The Taipei Computer Association (TCA) announced the formation of Taiwan's e-Reading Industry Promotion Alliance on December 21, with the group coming under the auspices of the Ministry...
BenQ to launch e-book readers in China market in February 2010
Dec 22, 14:47
BenQ plans to launch its own-brand e-book reader, the nReader, in Taiwan, China and Japan next year. The Taiwan launch is slated for January, to be followed by China in February and...
China-based digital publishing platform ChineseAll seeking Taiwan-based partners
Dec 22, 14:23
ChineseAll, the largest provider of online digital publication services in China, is seeking cooperation with Taiwan-based makers of e-book readers and handsets as well as providers...
Taiflex chairman predicts 10-15% growth for Asia FPCB market in 2010
Dec 18, 17:06
The FPCB market in Asia will grow 10-15% in 2010 thanks to increased demand coming from ultra-thin notebooks, smartphones and e-book readers, according to Sun Ta-Wen, chairman of...
China market: Consumer IC designers eyeing demand for e-book reader applications
Dec 16, 13:44
China-based consumer IC designers are optimistic about demand for e-book related products in Shenzhen and expect to enjoy an explosion in shipment growth of controller ICs and LCD...
Delta to expand e-paper product lines
Dec 11, 14:51
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics plans to broaden its e-paper business into not only the e-book reader and e-tag markets, but also to applications such as highway billboards, according...
Netronix to ramp up monthly e-book reader capacity to 200,000 units in early 2010
Dec 4, 12:20
Taiwan-based network equipment and e-book reader maker Netronix plans to ramp up its e-book reader production capacity to 200,000 units a month in early 2010, up from 100,000 units...
PVI revenues grow 264% on year in November
Dec 3, 15:09
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) has posted revenues of NT$1.56 billion (US$48.6 million) for November 2009, up 20% sequentially and 264% on year.
AUO ships e-book reader panels to China-based Hanwang
Dec 1, 11:56
AU Optronics (AUO) has started shipping 9-inch e-book reader panels to China-based Hanwang, with related products likely to hit the market in 2010, according to market sources.
PC vendors pessimistic toward future of MIDs
Nov 30, 16:24
Several members of Intel's Mobile Internet Device Innovation Alliance (MIDIA) have quit development of the mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and turned to work on products such as smartbooks...
AUO raises global e-book reader shipment forecast
Nov 27, 16:35
AU Optronics (AUO) has increased its estimation of the global e-book reader market, expecting worldwide shipments of e-book readers to top 10 million units in 2010 from its previous...
Netronix developing e-book readers on Android platform
Nov 27, 15:57
Network equipment maker Netronix is currently cooperating with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop e-book readers on the Android platform and expects shipments to top one million units...
Taiwan PCB makers not rushing to HDI boards for e-book readers
Nov 26, 16:49
With the exception of Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), most Taiwan PCB makers are still reluctant to enter the production of HDI boards for e-book readers as demand from the sector...
Compal increases 4Q09 notebook shipments target, says company president
Nov 25, 15:46
Compal Electronics has internally upward adjusted its projected on-quarter growth in notebook shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009 from 10% to 20%, resulting in an expected 37-38...
HannStar and LG Display sign patent cross-licensing agreement
Nov 25, 14:13
HannStar Display signed a patent cross-licensing agreement for TFT-LCD technology with LG Display on November 24, 2009, retroactively effective as of January 1, 2009, according to...
PVI EPD production in full swing for year-end shopping, says chairman
Nov 23, 16:59
Prime View International (PVI) is gearing up its EPD shipments to clients for the year-end shopping season, company chairman Scott Liu has said, amid reports that two of its major...
Major price cuts for e-book readers unlikely in 2010, says PVI chairman
Nov 23, 11:37
Prices of e-book readers are unlikely to drop sharply to as low as US$100 in 2010, as the market has just started to take off, and there is little need for vendors to resort to price...
PVI chairman expects e-book reader market to more than double in 2010
Nov 19, 11:50
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) chairman Scott Liu has forecast that the global e-book reader market will more than double in 2010, compared to...
BenQ debuts own-brand e-book reader, aims at global sales of 300,000 units in 2010
Nov 18, 14:58
BenQ has introduced its own-brand e-book reader, the nReader, and plan to launch it together with its online e-book trading platform in Taiwan in January 2010 and then in Japan and...
Network equipment maker Netronix expanding e-book reader production lines
Nov 12, 14:53
Taiwan-based network equipment maker Netronix will begin to expand its production lines for e-book readers at the end of 2009 instead of the first quarter of 2010 as originally planned...
E-readers will take off for holiday shoppers in 2010, says Gartner
Nov 11, 15:37
This year is likely to be remembered as a watershed in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in...
Taiwan market: CHT, FET and Taiwan Mobile competing for e-book services
Nov 6, 15:11
The top-three Taiwan-based telecom carriers Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Taiwan Mobile are all eager to offer e-book services in order to help...
Acer chairman calls for cross-strait cooperation on WiMAX, e-book readers
Nov 4, 16:14
Acer chairman JT Wang, who also serves as chairman of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), has invited China-based players to attend Computex 2010 and hopes participation could...
Asustek aims to increase revenues by about 30% in 2010
Oct 30, 16:57
Asustek Computer expects that its 2010 revenues will have a chance to approach NT$300 billion (US$9.23 billion), which would represent on-year growth of about 30%. The company is...
HannStar Display to begin shipping touch panels in March 2010
Oct 30, 14:58
LCD panel maker HannStar Display has entered design-in for the production of touch panels in cooperation with color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic with volume shipments slated...
CMO to starts shipping e-book display panels in 4Q09
Oct 27, 14:18
LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) will start shipping 6- and 9-inch e-book reader panels to its e-paper production partner Prime View International (PVI) in the fourth...
MSI developing Tegra-based e-book reader, still no plans for Gigabyte
Oct 27, 12:19
Micro-Star International (MSI) chairman Joseph Hsu revealed that the company is currently in development of an Nvidia Tegra-based e-book reader, but since the device still has some...
Asustek aims to ship more than 16 million notebooks and netbooks combined in 2010
Oct 26, 17:15
Asustek Computer expects its notebook shipments (including netbook)s will increase from 12 million units in 2009 to over 16 million units in 2010, and global notebook shipments will...
PVI expected to ship up to 3 million EPDs in 2009
Oct 26, 16:24
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) is expected to ship 2.5-3 million EPDs in 2009, accounting for about 90% of the global e-book reader market, according...
AUO aims to ship 1-2 million e-book reader panels in 2010
Oct 23, 15:50
LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) aims to ship 1-2 million e-book reader panels in 2010, taking as much as almost one third of the global market for the segment, according to company...
Qisda announces net profit for 3Q09
Oct 21, 11:48
Qisda has released its third-quarter financial report, recording a consolidated net profit of NT$841 million (US$26 million), 17.3% gross margin, and EPS of NT$0.44. Operating income...
AUO unveils flexible e-paper technology and 20-inch e-paper module
Oct 20, 16:41
AU Optronics (AUO) today announced a series of e-paper products, including a 20-inch e-paper module and a 6-inch flexible e-paper. AUO plans to offer flexible e-paper samples in 2010,...
Delta to ramp up e-book reader EPDs in 2Q10
Oct 14, 15:18
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has begun shipments of e-paper panels for medical display devices, and expects to launch e-paper panels for e-book readers in the second quarter of...
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MAIKE VAN DER HEIDE discovers the spectacular silence and pristine beauty of Fiordland's Doubtful Sound.
"In our busy lives, we don't have much time to stop and enjoy the silence. So right now, that's what we're going to do, enjoy the silence. Just as soon as Bruce gets the boat into position."
Standing against the railing on the bow of a large boat in the middle of Doubtful Sound with tourists literally packed around me, I could not imagine how I could possibly enjoy the silence. Around me was some of the most spectacular scenery I had ever seen, but engines were rumbling, raincoats rustling and people coughing and talking. Perhaps silence is a nice idea, I thought. Several minutes later we're all quiet, but Bruce is still manoeuvering the boat to stop it sliding into nearby rocks.
Finally the engines are turned off and everything goes quiet. The silence is so complete it's almost tangible. A couple of birds chirp, tiny waves lap a nearby rock. I try to move, but my raincoat sounds like sandpaper, so I just stand and try to enjoy the moment by gazing into the bush.
And then somebody farts.
I can feel people - people of all ages and nationalities - shake with barely suppressed mirth. Finally the rumble of the engine cuts through it all and people around me explode with relief and giggles.
I find my sister, who was trapped down the side of the boat earlier by people piling outside to see a pod of bottlenose dolphins, and we head to the back to enjoy what is left of our cruise with Real Journeys through what is arguably one of the most amazing pieces of scenery in New Zealand.
Doubtful Sound is very, very deep and the water is eerily black and still. Hardly any light can penetrate the layer of fresh water which floats on top of the salt water underneath: The two don't mix. Because of this, a lot of deepwater fish, plants and other marine life live unusually close to the surface.
Of course, because the water is dark we can't see this life but we saw the pod of bottlenose dolphins who thrilled everyone simply by swimming past. Away from the water, the spectacular steep mountains which plunged into the fiord at nearly 90 degree angles kept our attention. The bush was thick and the hills were impossibly steep. The unique hanging valleys gathered water which trickled in tiny silver streams straight down into the black depths of the fiord. It was hard to believe we were still in New Zealand.
Having to watch all this glide by from the decks of a crowded tourist boat was a small sacrifice in return for being allowed to visit one of the country's most isolated and untouched regions.
The Real Journeys tour takes in much of the Sound, motoring in and out of arms and paying a brief visit to the choppy open sea entrance where hundreds of seals basked on exposed rocks.
Doubtful Sound is south of the smaller but more popular Milford Sound, which is accessible by highway.
Getting to Doubtful Sound is more of a mission. My sister and I drove from her home in Queenstown and stayed the night at Manapouri ready to board our Real Journeys boat at 8am. It took an hour by boat to reach the road to Doubtful Sound, then another hour or so by bus - photo stops included - and then another boat trip through the fiords.
Our day began cloudy and, being Fiordland, we expected rain. But it didn't, much to the disgust of the locals who said they needed a bit of rain after a dry spell: Not a complaint you often hear in that part of the world.
Our guide Russell Smith - who said he was retired and just doing the job for fun, which showed in his enthusiasm - stopped the bus near the top of the pass to Doubtful Sound to present us with the much-photographed view of the slither of water below.
Doubtful Sound is actually not a sound by definition, it's a fiord. It was named Doubtful Harbour by Captain James Cook, who didn't actually go into the inlet as he was uncertain whether it was navigable under sail. His decision was not a popular one with his crew, who had hoped to get ashore to find fresh food.
Eventually a Spanish scientific team who were researching the force of gravity entered the fiord, which was later renamed Doubtful Sound by whalers and sealers.
When the boat journey ends, I'm reluctant to leave. I want to stay and enjoy the silence that comes back when the voices, cameras and motors are gone. But Doubtful Sound is a slice of New Zealand that's better off alone, and I follow the line onto the bus home.
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It would appear that capitalism has a developed a terrible dependency issue, turning hostile and violent when there's nothing left in the punch bowl. Unfortunately, new fears of a double dip recession have emerged, the caked residue of weak economic growth and a soft job market. On the heels of a 30-year spending spree and the party of our lifetime, we find ourselves searching for our equilibrium once again.
As fall begins, the economy is a mess. Unemployment is at 9.1 percent. The U.S. economy failed to add jobs in August. Consumer confidence is at record lows. The housing market is in despair. Europe is imploding. And, our political leaders cannot seem to put their differences aside to create some certainty and progress.
After trickling forward in terms of job growth in the United States, the August numbers released Friday were met with alarm. The numbers suggest that companies have stopped hiring and are maintaining the status quo in terms of head count. Based on this release, data equity markets sold off and gold rallied as concerns arose about the strength of the US economic recovery. Banks in particular including much maligned Bank of America were hit as a result.
The fact that Deven Shama, the president of Standard & Poor's, has stood down from his job just a couple of days after the agency downgraded the United States' credit rating has raised questions over whether he is being made into a scapegoat to deflect political pressure on the credit ratings agency.
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For Once, Washington Nationals Take From New York Yankees
When the Washington Nationals arrived in 2005, who would have ever thought that less than a decade later, they would be able to sign players away from the deep pocketed New York Yankees? However, this is just what happened on Tuesday as the Nationals signed free agent closer Rafael Soriano to a two year $28 million contract with an option for a third year.
The 33 year old Soriano was signed by New York in 2011 after a 2010 season in which he saved 45 games for the Tampa Bay Rays. He took over the closers role in 2012 when Mariano Rivera was lost for the season due to a knee injury. The Yankees expect to have Rivera back for the 2013 season and only offered Soriano a one year tender offer, which he turned down.
This gave Washington a chance to sign him. Despite winning the NL East last season, the Nationals watched as their relievers struggled down the stretch. In the NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals, Washington relievers lost a two run lead and the series in the ninth inning of game five. The Nationals knew going into the off season that they had to shore up the pen. When the opportunity to sign a pitcher with 87 saves in his last two stints as a closer came up, it was too good to pass up.
The Nationals signing someone away from the Yankees seemed far fetched even last season. Washington has never been a huge player in the free agent market. It was believed that ownership was cheap and wanted to build a team through the draft. This may have been the case when the Nationals were owned by MLB for one year, but not since the Lerner Group bought the club in 2006. They have been willing to spend money on high draft picks and proved Tuesday that they are willing to sign high priced free agents as well.
The signing of Soriano is a typical Washington move. Instead of going out and signing the first big name available, General Manager Mike Rizzo sized up the situation in New York and waited to see whether the Yankees would make Soriano available. Once it became obvious that the Yankees were going back to Rivera as their closer, Rizzo made his move and brought Soriano into the fold. Rizzo not only got the man that he wanted, but at the Nationals' price.
Over the years, it has been the Yankees who have signed players away from good teams coming off of successful seasons. This time, it is the Yankees who have lost a good player to someone after New York had a successful year.
Until it happened, who would have ever thought it would be the Nationals taking from the Yankees?
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Here are the official Reuts' Blog and Press Release about signing THE UNTOLD TALE trilogy.
• The book is my first attempt at real Tolkien-esque epic fantasy, and I spent a lot of time researching how story arcs in such fantasies are structured. It was quite an adventure for me! I also spent a whole evening with some hardcore dedicated D&D folks, reviewing the book and talking about the characters in terms of Class Types and the plot in terms of a Campaign. I wanted to make the fantasy world rich, but also fun and playful (perhaps playable?) in the way that the great D&D stories are.
• My mother called it her favourite of all the books I've written so far. That's pretty high praise! Especially since she's read everything I've written since the age of 11 (Except for some of the slashy fan fiction. No. Not that.)
• One of the episodes in the novel was inspired by a less-than-sober discussion with Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood; Ed also inspired one of the characters. Don't worry, he's read it and he's okay with it.
• I've already written some companion novellas and shorts and one of my beta readers has already written fan fiction!
• The idea of the book came out of a discussion I had with a friend on HBO's treatment of in-world sexism and misogyny in Game of Thrones, which we were mainlining at the time. I was annoyed that I wasn't able to articulate my frustrations to my friend – a great guy, but one who has never not been the target demographic in his life. He didn't understand what it meant to not be the person the story is for, and I went off to my office to write out my frustrations in a scene that eventually became one of the pivotal points of this book.
• This was the hardest novel to name I have ever written. I think the poor book went through about fifteen titles before Laurie and I settled on this one, and even then there were three variations of it that I cycled through before I was happy with it. I am still floundering with the titles for the next two books, and Leah Petersen and I spent a morning trying to figure out a series title. (The Physics of Falling is such a good title for a series – she named that so well! I was hoping for her inspiration to strike for me, too!)
• I don't write to music, nor do I keep booktracks. I need to write in total silence – I can't even write in coffee shops – and sometimes even darkness. I like my story to be the only thing I focus on. However, I do collect inspirational art imagery and create a screensaver slideshow of the art so that when I come back to my computer after a break, it is there to fill me with energy. This particular slide show featured a lot of Boris Vallejo, and the cover art for series like The Lord of the Rings, Xanth, Wheel of Time, Temeraire, Discworld and from epic sword-and-sorcery films, and the traditional clothing of Georgia.
• This is the first time I have ever written a character specifically for an actor to play. Usually I take inspiration for characters from people around me or fictional characters or celebrities and amalgamate them into an overall person – this person's hand gestures, that person's verbal tics, this one's eyes, the way that one stands, the way that this one handles stressful situations, the way this one reacts to danger, etc. But I knew from the moment I began writing my narrator – Forsyth Turn – that I wanted him, one day, to be inhabited by actor Mark Gatiss. (Or, you know, Mark Gatiss in his League of Gentlemen years). That made creating Forsyth's personality a lot more fun, because I already had his physicality down and knew now I could play. I have since assembled a photo gallery of a fantasy cast.
• I got really worried about my lead character's family name a few months after the first draft was done, as my friend Julie Czerneda then announced her first Epic Fantasy novel's title – A Turn Of Light! In the end I decided to keep it as is, as it's an important surname and by the time this book comes out, Julie's second book in the series – A Play Of Shadow – would be out. And it is! (Seriously, go read these people. They're fantastic.)
• My agent came back from a conference in Seattle in November 2014 and told me all about this keynote address she'd made about author hybridity; she said she'd mentioned The Untold Tales in her speech, and that she had later been approached by a publishing company interested in reading the book. I got a bit of a shiver, a sort of good version of the "walking over your grave" willies, when I read that. Turns out, the feeling was right! Because that publisher was Reuts!
• I deliberately sprinkled references to a bunch of other fantasy and science fiction series in the novel – I had a lot of fun looking up things and trying to figure out how to wrangle them into the book as naturally as possible!
To celebrate the release of The Untold Tale, Short Fuse has a contest going on their blog. Check it out, and win a free short story from me!
Also, read the journey from writing to signing of The Untold Tale.
And, you can now add The Untold Tale to your "Want To Read" shelf at Goodreads!
The Untold Tale
Master Forsyth Turn isn't a hero. He's never wanted to be one, either; not since his older brother Kintyre found the Foesmiter and waltzed away from his family, his estate, and his responsibilities to become one – and dumped all of his responsibilities on Forsyth. Good thing Forsyth likes bookkeeping and accounts, and all the other minutia of managing a fertile Chipping.
And then, one day, the king's spies bring an injured woman to Turn Hall for protection. A bafflingly blunt woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Lucy Piper claims to know things about Kintyre and Forsyth's lives that she can't possibly be privy to. She crashes into Forsyth's quaintly sedentary life like an errant comet and before he knows it she has him convinced that he is the only man who can join her on her quest to find a magical gateway back to her far-away home. She drags Forsyth into the kind of adventure that only his brother could have imagined.
Even more baffling still is that Lucy Piper seems to be falling in love with him. Forsyth Turn has spent his whole life knowing he was only second best… so how is it that he seems to be her first choice?
But the Viceroy, Kintyre's arch-nemesis, is after Lucy Piper and her magical gateway as well. More than that, the Viceroy is desperate to learn the last and only secret that Forsyth cannot seem to pry from Lucy Piper; a truth that threatens the stability of the whole Kingdom… perhaps even their whole world.
Lucy Piper might be able to convince Forsyth that he can be a hero, and that he might be worth loving, but is it really his fate to defeat the one villain that even the great Kintyre Turn has never managed to best?
First off, I want to confess that I sort of worried that I would never get to write another one of these sorts of announcements blog posts, and I have to say that it is an enormous relief to be able to do so. The Untold Tale is the fifth novel I ever wrote, the third since Triptych, and the first book that I wrote specifically for Laurie McLean, my agent at Fuse Literary, Inc. When I first came on board, I wanted to offer her something new, something no one else had touched.
I love The Untold Tale desperately – in the way that all authors love their novels and all parents love their children – but it was the first time I had really stretched my wings as an acafan writer. I'd made references to critical theory concepts in my other books, but this was really the first book where I said: "No, I want to write a story that makes a point." I was worried, at first, that the themes would overwhelm the plot and the characters, but the great part was that these people were already so vibrant that the fear vanished almost as soon as I started writing. They wouldn't let the message drown the story they were telling me.
You know the story that J.K. Rowling tells about how Harry Potter just wandered into her head one day, fully formed and ready to tell his story?
Well, that's what Forsyth Turn did to me.
I have never, in my life, loved a character the way I love Forsyth simply because he was a whole and complete person from the moment he arrived. He tapped at the door and said, "Oh, hello. Yes, excuse me. Um, but, I have a rather important tale that I'd like to share with you. Nobody listens to me really, you see. I'm the overlooked one. But you seem kind. Shall I tell it to you? Also, may I pour you a wine while you listen? Excellent. Do get comfortable. Oh, shall I stoke the fire? Excellent. Well then. Let's begin…"
Luckily, everyone who has read the book also seems to quite love Forsyth as well, and has enjoyed watching him stretch, and grow, and learn over the course of the book. Forsyth and I grew together – both of us uncertain and feeling shy, but as the novel progressed and his confidence began to rise, so did mine.
I will never forget how nervous I was in turning The Untold Tales to Laurie. She'd read Triptych, of course, and another book called The Skylark's Song (which is still looking for a home), but this was the first book I'd written with Laurie as my agent.
The worst part of being a writer is waiting for someone to read something of yours. There's just this…. this silence. And you have no idea what it means.
I was terrified that Laurie hated it. My beta readers loved it, but they were my friends. My mother loved it, but she's my mother. What if my agent hated it and was trying to figure out how to say so? That if the silence was her trying to formulate a rejection.
And then, I got this:
Just finished the first chapter of [The Untold Tale]. It is simply great. Wonderful world building. Great action and dramatic tension. Love the characters. You write great first chapters. Now on to more!
And then, when she was finished, this:
I. Loved. That. Story!
This is the one we should go out with for many reasons. This one (it begs for a title…!) is fresh, unpredictable, well-written, funny, exciting, wonderful. I would like this one to be the one I pitch first if you agree. Wowza. I'm energized!!!
Oh, so glad I can now go to sleep and dream about these characters. I'm in love with the [Forsyth] myself!
She loved my book. Oh my god, my new agent loved my brand new book!!
After that, I did Laurie's edits – about 5 notes, if I recall – and most of them very easy fixes, and then the book was in her hands and off out into the world.
I solicited author authors to read it and give advanced blurbs to help frame the novel for publishers (thank you, Ed Greenwood, Julie Czerneda, Leah Petersen, and Violette Malan!), and had a fantastic letter from Liana K. which she then turned into a fantastic video review which I will share after the book is out as it is quite spoilerific.
We got lots of rejections, but they were all fantastic rejections. They were complimentary, thoughtful, kind, and many of them carried praise for some aspect of the book. Every rejection heartened me rather than made me disappointed, because each and every rejection said: "Damn, this is a good book. Damn, J.M. Frey can write. And damnit, we just can't take it."
Because the book defied genre. The book is about books, and about writing, and is sort of like Game of Thrones meets Inception, with all the self awareness of Xena: Warrior Princess but the gravitas of Lord of the Rings. And you know what, that's a darn hard book to market; I'm not going to lie.
Laurie and I kept our hopes up, and loved the book intensely. She shopped. I started making plans about what I'd do if we decided to stop shopping. I started researching cover artists that I would want to hire, talked to friends about interior design, wondered which self pub service to use – because I was not going to let Forsyth's story remain Untold.
Then Laurie went to speak at an event in Seattle in November of 2014.
This is the email I got following that event:
I also wanted to tell you that I was talking about you in my keynote in Seattle last week…about you being a fabulous hybrid author who is really pushing boundaries with adult picture books, Kickstarter crowdfunding, small press, self-pub, etc. I was bemoaning the fact that NY was missing the boat on your fantasy as being too "meta" , and how I just love the story. Then I finished by stating, "But it only takes one editor, the right editor, to see what I see in JM's writing, for a deal to happen."
Guess what. I went to grab a cup of tea after the keynote and this woman pressed a card into my hand and said, "I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm a publisher and I love meta fantasy. Can you send me the manuscript?" I just about spit out my tea!!!
[…] I met one of their editors and she was tugging on the publisher's sleeve saying, "Please let me edit this. Please. Please."
Well, I just about spit out my tea, too!
That was, of course, Reuts.
My friend Adrienne Kress was over for our normal writing day when this email arrived, and we spent the evening stalking their online footprint. We came to the conclusion that Reuts would be an absolutely perfect home for Forsyth, and then I got nervous. Because what if they didn't want it?
I took December to clean up the book a bit more, and then it was off to Reuts.
January I spent writing a new novel to distract myself, and Laurie reached out to the other publisher's still considering the book, and Reuts read. And loved it. Loved it. They made an offer.
I made little squeaking noises. I was sitting at the kitchen table at my parent's place, having come home for a family event. The snow was so high that the windows in the basement were totally blocked, so I was upstairs were there was sunlight. Dad was downstairs watching hockey (I'm Canadian, eh,) and Mom was puttering and at the squeak she came over to see what was up.
I pointed at the screen, and wrapped my arms around Mom's waist and buried my face in her tummy, and laughed so hard I started crying when she read it out loud. She called my father upstairs, told him the news, and then I sat back, grinning like a fool and wiping my eyes and said, "Do you have wine in the house? Open it! Let's celebrate!"
That evening I called a few of my friends to let them know – mostly the people who had been the most helpful when I was working on the novel . I texted to my best friend, way later in the night, when I was too excited to sleep: "Everyone in the world will get to meet Forsyth. They'll get to love him, the way I do. I get to share him, now."
Laurie and I scheduled a phone call, discussed the contract the Reuts had sent along and then, almost playfully Laurie said: "And what will you say if they ask for more books? Do you have any ideas for a sequel?"
A sequel?
Well, I told her, I had some vague ideas, but I hadn't really seriously discussed or considered it. Laurie told me to get serious.
Two days later I'd had a brainstorming session with Adrienne, (and my debut novel as Peggy Barnett had been released), and I had two pitches and three page synopsises for two more books. Though, I'm still looking for a really inspired series title.
Laurie read them, and while she and Reuts were discussing the contracts, Kisa (my editor! My editor!) sent me the most glowing, gorgeous, excited editing letter I've ever seen in my life. I want to print it out and frame it. It's so sweet, and so effervescent. (And better than that, there's like… only three changes and they are easy changes that I am happy to make. One even addresses the exact frustrations I've been havening with Sodding Chapter Eleven. It has been "Sodding Chapter Eleven" since I wrote Sodding Chapter Eleven, so I'm very happy to have notes about it.)
I have written a book about magic, and power, and wishes, and somehow that must have influenced the book itself, some of the glimmer and the glitter must have leaked out of the manuscript and into the pages themselves because before I could blink, I was suddenly being offered a three book deal.
Holy crap.
Contracts were finalized, signed, scanned and sent, and now, here we are! Announcement day!
Laurie, and her colleague Gordon, have done an amazing job promoting the announcement, and I am stunned and overjoyed by Reuts' response. By everyone's! Thank you!
And better than all of that, I get to spend more time with Forsyth Turn. More fireside chats, more cups of wine, more wind-blown adventures and cheeky nods to the great classic fantasy books and writers that came before me.
I get more books. I get more time.
And more than all of that, I get to share it all with you.
I can't wait.
To celebrate the release of The Untold Tale, Short Fuse has a contest going on their blog. Check it out, and win a free short story from me!
Also, read my Ten Teasing Facts about The Untold Tale.
And you can now add The Untold Tale to your "Want To Read" shelf at Goodreads!
LIPS LIKE ICE (Circlet Press, 2015)
It's finally here! Huzzah! My first full length erotica SF novel has arrived. For the next few weeks, it is available exclusively in e-formats, with a paperback following up around Valentine's Day.
From the Cover:
He calls himself the Prince. He is humanoid but not human—fascinating, sensual, at the cusp of maturity, and accustomed to getting what he wants. And Lydia has awoken in his world to find that she has been given to him—as a pet, a plaything, and, if he so desires, a lover.
But the Prince lives in a world where birth order dictates gender, and in declaring himself male he has thrown tradition back into the face of his father, the King, a very, very dangerous creature to cross.
As Lydia comes to realize that the Prince is as much a prisoner to his culture's ways as she is, her resentment slowly unfurls into pity, understanding, curiosity, and a deep, unpredictable, consuming lust. She wants him too, on her own terms. But in a world fraught with hidden dangers, her terms are not open for discussion, not when their thirst for one another could doom them both. In a court where monarchs are obeyed and sexual hierarchies are strict, one wrong move could end the Prince for ever… and what would happen to Lydia then?
Sneek Preview
"They have given you over to my child," are the first words Lydia can parse out of the throbbing ache between her ears, the dull thud behind her eyes. "I believe it is to teach care for lesser creatures. To instill kindness.Tch."
There is a huffing scoff of disbelief somewhere off to the left of her, and Lydia turns her head to follow the sound, but finds her eyes won't open. All remains wrapped in nauseating darkness.
She tries to remember where she is, how she got here, but all that will come is her name, and the vague sense that this is not her home. The bed, even the smell of the air is wrong.
The woman (for she sounds like a woman; voice age-worn and woven with threadbare compassion) mops at Lydia's brow with a tepid cloth. Perhaps once it had been cool, and that is what had woken her: the short, sharp shock of cold water on skin. But the fever that Lydia can feel crawling over her flesh has warmed the cloth. The water is uncomfortable. Her whole self feels uncomfortable, and itchy, and clammy.
"If it will work, I do not know. But I can hope. I do hope. My child is filled with such caprice. It burdens a mother's heart. Ah, but why my husband thinks… well, many and mysterious are the ways of the King." The woman scoffs again. "Tch."
Lydia pries her dry lips apart and tries to un-stick her tongue from the tacky roof of her mouth in answer. She's not successful. And even if she were, she has no idea what to say in response. Lydia closes her eyes again instead.
That is the first and last time she ever hears the Queen's voice.
Happy Announcement Time!
My two stories: BLOODSUCKERS and TORONTO THE RUDE (feat. guest appearances by Rose Fox and Gabrielle Harbowy) will appear in volume TWO of the Toronto Comics Anthology.
While you're patienly awaiting March and the release of the second volume, why not check out the first?
Toronto Comics Anthology Vol. 1
Toronto's Got Tales.
Toronto is a city teeming with life, where all kinds of stories are born and live.
Compiled in a fresh new anthology, some of Toronto's newest talent share their own stories about the city; some fantastic, some terrifying, and some as real as the streets themselves.
Whether you're looking for a tale to touch your heart or to chill your blood, you'll find something that will speak to you in one of the 11 stories within, from 8 new talented writers, and 11 exceptional artists.
Inside you'll find…
By Miike Something and Todd Sullivan
Two childhood friends battle a haunted video game and their own insecurities, in the middle of the Toronto Blackout of 2003.
The Perfect Gold Heist of 1952
By Christopher Bird and Nick Hendriks
The story of a gold heist that remains a mystery to this day.
The Tale of the Eyeball Tree
By Oliver Ho and Brice Hall
Following a family tragedy on the waters of Lake Ontario in 1931, young Daphne Ironwood finds a mysterious object that seems to offer new life, forgiveness and redemption.
By Mark Foo and David Oxley
A writer with a love for architecture digs too deeply into a local story, to his horror.
WTF at the CNE
By Christopher Bird and Greg Jensen
The Canadian National Exhibition isn't just fried foods and carnival rides…
The Ghost of Maple Leaf Gardens
By Steven Andrews and Xan Grey
A tragic death leaves a young woman's ghost haunting Maple Leaf Gardens – and she won't leave until the terrible truth is revealed!
The Cheese Poems Of James McIntyre
By Christoper Bird and Adam Prosser
James McIntyre was a poet with a very particular abiding interest.
Different Times
By Nelson da Rocha and Stephany Lein
With the world at stake, three desperate time travellers return to the Golden Age of Heroes – only to discover these were 'Different Times!!!'
The Bathing Suit Trials of 1936
By Christopher Bird and Kelvin Sue
The story of a man who dared to bare his chest and fight the law.
The Scottish Play
By BC Holmes
"The Scottish Play" is a story about identity, narratives and the scripts that are imposed upon us.
Doors Into Darkness
By Daniel Reynolds and Kelvin Sue
Dennis thinks he has his job as a TTC janitor all figured out until the unexplainable starts happening at Ossington station… and he meets a mysterious old man named Rui.
The Disappearance of Ambrose Smal
l By Christopher Bird and Leo Lee
Ambrose Small was one of the richest men in Toronto. Then he disappeared.
The Toronto Comics Anthology of 2014 is a non-profit anthology for new Toronto writers and artists. All stories remain jointly owned by their creators.
Hi there!
Finished Triptych not long ago and wanted to express my appreciation. Found it on a list of recommended queer-themed SF and got hooked immediately. Loved the characters and culture-building. Given your involvement with Doctor Who fandom, I'm guessing Basil's Welshness is in part a nod to Who and Torchwood? Actually, the book feels like the Torchwood I wish we'd had more of — adult and thoughtfully so, with a warmth and humour that balance and sharpen the tragic parts. Good stuff. Really looking forward to more of your work!
— [redacted]
My reply:
Hi back! Thank you so much for your message!
I'd love to know what list you saw it on so I can archive it.
Basil's Welshness came from a lot of places, actually, but yes, Torchwood was one of the influences. I loved Kai Owen in Torchwood (would love to see Kai Owen play Basil, actually), and I thought Rhys had such potential and was a character of great depth and compassion, by the end of the series. Much of Basil's heart came from there.
It also came from actor David Hewlett, who played Rodney McKay inStargate, another geek everyman character that I sympathized with greatly, and who was more than just his prickly exterior.
Both characters had such heart.
(And yes, Gwen Pierson is named in tribute to Gwen Cooper in Torchood. I nicknamed the character Gwen in the manuscript as a placeholder. I had full intention of going back and doing a Find + Replace to change her name at the end, when I had a better sense of her character. But everything I tried, she didn't like. We comprimised and we stuck with Gwen. Which was funny, because later, Gwen Gaddes became the book's publisher!)
But Basil's Welshness also came from the fact that I was in Wales for some of the time I was working on Triptych, and my love of the accent, the people, and the architecture. My friend's beau at the time was Welsh, so there's a bit of him in Basil, too.
Wales is a fascinating place, and the mythology, castles, and sense of community moreso. I thought, if anyone could understand what Kalp was going through, what it meant to be, as Sondheim put it, "expatriates in your own country", then it would be a Welshman in England.
Part of the influence on Triptych was, too, as you say, Torchwood andDoctor Who. It was also Stargate, and Star Trek, and Farscape, andAndromeda, and The Visitors, and Alien Nation, and all these amazing socially apt science fiction properties that engage with aliens not as something to practice at the shooting range on, but as whole peoples with different cultures and different values. And while the stories in those shows have to wrap up in 48-minutes-with-commercials, a novel afforded me the opportunity to take the foundation of those sorts of stories and build on them.
"What would a proper, well thought out governmental response to alien refugees be?" I wondered. "And would it end all shooty, like it usually does?"
(I was disappointed to realize that yes, it probably would end all shooty. I wrote Triptych between 2005-2009, and looking at the world right now, looking at #BlackLivesMatter and the kidnapped schoolgirls, ISIS and Syria and Ferguson, and the missing aboriginal women from around the world, and all of the revolting things that human beings do to one another, I am sorry, and sad, and ashamed of my species when I am forced to point out that Triptych is, in 2014, sadly even more socially relevant than it was when I wrote it.)
So, thank you very much for your thoughtful message, and I'm so very glad you enjoyed the book.
—J.M. Frey
Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen
I'm very pleased to announce that the T18 cover has been revealed!
What do you think??
My short "The Moral of the Story" is included in this fantastic collection of all-Canadian SF/F.
There is a SPECIAL ADVANCED sale for Kindle only! It is available right now here
A mechanical Jesus for your shrine, the myths of cuttlefish, a vampire in residential schools, a Muslim woman who wants to get closer, surgically, to her god, the demons of outer space, the downside of Nirvana. The 24 science fiction and fantasy stories and poems included in Wrestling with Gods (Tesseracts Eighteen) take their faith and religion into the future, into the weird and comic and thought-provoking spaces where science fiction and fantasy has really always gone, struggling with higher powers, gods, the limits of technology, the limits of spiritual experience. . At times profound, these speculative offerings give readers a chance to see faith from the believer and the skeptic in worlds where what you believe is a matter of life, death, and afterlife. . Featuring works by: Derwin Mak, Robert J. Sawyer, Tony Pi, S. L. Nickerson, Janet K. Nicolson, John Park, Mary-Jean Harris, David Clink, Mary Pletsch, Jennifer Rahn, Alyxandra Harvey, Halli Lilburn, John Bell, David Jón Fuller, Carla Richards, Matthew Hughes, J. M. Frey, Steve Stanton, Erling Friis-Baastad, James Bambury, Savithri Machiraju, Jen Laface and Andrew Czarnietzki, David Fraser, Suzanne M. McNabb, and Megan Fennell.
Preview of my story, The Moral Of The Story
Her fingers brush the soft skin, the small smooth of bone under thin flesh behind my left ear, brushing back through wiry hair to where I've got it pulled back in preparation for hard work. Lake water, brackish here where it mingles with the St. Lawrence, slides down the side of my neck, summoning goose pimples in its wake. The slick, cool brush of membrane kisses the lobe of my ear and I feel my eyes slide closed, involuntary, as natural as the slight gasp that parts my lips, inflates my lungs, brushes the taste of water and breeze and sunlight across my tongue.
"You came," the woman in the water says. Her voice is sibilant and filled with nearly inaudible clicks and hard-palate burrs, an accent never before heard in the lower plains of Quebec.
Never heard before the Melt caused all the water levels to rise. Never heard before the Great Dark came and killed all the technology. Never before the Daniel-Johnson dam stopped working, the regulating of the Manicouagan became too much and the river broke through its cement prison. Never before Baie-Comeau was overborne and drowned.
Possibly, perhaps – and maybe I flatter myself a little – never before in the whole of human history. But then, how could we have stories of things like her, if I'm the first to converse with one?
Arrogance is a sin. It's one of the sins brought the Great Dark.
"I came," I say, opening my eyes. Sunlight on water dazzles like diamonds. I squint. It's a comfortable gesture. The lines beside my eyes folding into place is familiar, nearly soothing. "How could I stay away?"
"But did you come for me?" she teases, dipping her chin into the water in a gesture I've learned is meant to be coy, flirtatious. Dark hair slips and pools along the surface, shifting and curling like squid ink.
I sit back in the boat, take up my nets, and fling them over the side that she doesn't occupy. She whistles and clicks, face in the water, summoning fish. This is our deal. She fills my nets, I fill her mind, and we neither of us attempts to harm the other. Actively.
I had more hungry mouths to feed than fear of rumours, and that is what initially drove me out onto the unnatural lake. The stories said that there was something in the water that feeds on manflesh. But I am no man, and we needed the fish.
For the first few weeks, it was subtle. An elongated shadow too far down to see clearly, too solid to be a school, but too large to be any breed of fish I had ever caught before. Sometimes, it was a splash on the surface of the otherwise calm lake. Once, my little rowboat lurched under my feet, against current, violent, wrong.
I was being hunted, I realized. Even as I harvested fish, something else sought to harvest me. The rumours were not just stories.
I stayed away for three days. On the fourth my youngest brother patted his stomach morosely and cried, unable to understand why he hungered so. Defeated by his tiny misery, I fetched my father's harpoon from the hunting shed, and made the short walk back to the rocky shoreline.
My little boat was tied up where I had left it, undisturbed. But, no, see — there were four long scratches in the wood of the stern, naked against the dark stain of tar sealant, brackish water, and age. I bent down, breath caught in the hollow of my throat, and splayed my palm against the slashes. They were finger-width apart from each other, come from a humanish hand.
There was a Creature in the lake. And it was mad at me.
Mad because I dared to fish? Or mad because I did not come back?
I nearly turned away then, abandoned the boat, and the lake, and went to find another way to contribute to the supper table. I am old enough to go to the steam-driven factories, now, but then who would care for the littles?
I could spare a few hours each day to go onto the lake, but I cannot leave them for eight or more hours each day to work, and then shop. My parents would be furious. And I cannot hunt, I have no skill with a bow and arrow, we have no gun and ammunition is too expensive, and the Mayor Creature has not given us express permission. That is courting disaster.
No choice. I had to go back onto the lake.
I hesitated, but I could still hear the little ones' frustrated wails ringing in my ears. So I gathered up and solidified my courage. Die of hunger, or die on the water.
Those were my only choices.
When I sat down to write this NaNoWriMo pep talk, I was 10k behind and feeling sick.
Yes. I was procrasti-cleaning.
Because I suddenly and inexplicably hated my novel.
Twenty thousand words and a good handful of chapters in, and I hated my novel. I thought it was trite. It was clichéd. It was boring. There was nothing compelling about it and I should just stop and save everyone in the world the pain of having to even know the book ever existed! I was a terrible writer! I sucked! I was a boring, trite, shallow human being and everything I made was boring, trite and shallow!
Right. So. You know those feels, right?
Sure you do. You might be battling them right this moment. I always battle them between 25-35k. I've had twelve years of NaNoWriMo and I still start procrasti-cleaning and despising my book between 25-35k. It's a dark, horrible creature that sits on your shoulder and says "This is awful, you're a hack, this is a waste of your time."
1667 words per day is a slog, especially if you don't type fast. Even more so if you fall behind and have to try to make it up. The greyness of routine, the lack of sleep, three weeks of being a shut in and missing your friends and family, those are all hard, and they compound the feelings of "I suck" ness.
But guess what? Monsters can be slain.
You don't suck.
You don't.
So first things first: flick that creature right off your shoulder. It's a LIAR.
Nobody, but NOBODY sucks. Nobody is shallow. Nobody is worthless. And neither are any of the stories anybody wants to tell.
In the words of The Doctor:
Second things second: Sometimes the book's perceived suckiness comes from being just plain weary. Give your creative well time to replenish itself. Read a comic, watch a TV show, go see a film. Go have a nice dinner with friends and family, reconnect with your social circle for a few hours. Take a night off from writing, if you need to. Go to bed early. Spend time with other human beings. Take a bubble bath. Drink a liter of water and eat something healthy. Take the dog for a really long ramble. Go to a museum. Go do something, anything that isn't writing your book. Even for an hour. Then come back to your book energized.
Third things Third: And then have a good old think about your book. WHAT about it sucks? Is it that you don't know where the plot is going? That you hate the MC? That you've suddenly realized that you're telling it from the wrong POV? Is it that it just suddenly bores you? That you've realized that it's a shallow ripoff of something else? Or is it something in your personal life that's getting in the way? (I, for example, am currently dealing with the $#!%-storm that is my hate-blogger being finally unmasked.)
Once you've figured out where the problem is, don't worry it like a popcorn kernel stuck behind your tooth. Work around it. And don't stress. First off, finding problems with a story is normal. God, I am still not totally happy with my published books. That doesn't invalidate everything you've already done.
Maybe what you did is just fine and you just needed a breather. Maybe you just needed a little vacation for an hour. Maybe you need to rejig the plot, or read your research notes. Or the conversations you had with friends and fellow writers about why you were excited to write this novel in the first place.
Maybe what you did is salvageable. Maybe you can Frankenstein it. Maybe you can just jump ahead and write the bits that you know you have worked out already. Maybe you could skip straight to the ending, write the climax to get you excited again and remind yourself why you loved this story.
Maybe you've realized you told the story from the wrong POV; that's okay, start again from the right one. Maybe, just maybe, you need to walk away from this novel and just… begin fresh. That's okay too. If it's not working, it's not working. Maybe, if you morgue it, you might get an idea that will help you resurrect it next year. Just own up to your word count, and keep going with a new idea.
NaNoWriMo is, yes, about writing a novel. But more than that, it is about learning who you are as a writer. NaNoWriMo is about how you like to write, and what you like to write.
And if you learn halfway through that you aren't connecting with this book, then that's fine. Write a different one. Write a better one. Or, take the breathing space you need to find out why you're not connecting, and fix it.
But most importantly, take a deep breath and congratulate yourself for having gotten as far as you have.
(And as for me, what was mobilizing my procrasti-cleaning? I found the plot too shallow and boring. So I had a friend over, made a roast, drank a bottle of wine, and explained. Together we found a way to weave some of my social passions into the narrative, and suddenly all these ideas were sparking off the page! The ending is the same, but it means something totally different now! My characters are essentially identical, but their deeper passions and motivations are more compelling, more driving. And the story is far more topical – I've been reading a lot of headlines and Tumblr blogs that have helped. I was telling the right story; but I was telling it the wrong way.)
Some of the best advice about the "I Hate My Work" phase of writing given was this:
*GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO BE A LITTLE BIT CRAP You can fix it later. No really, you can. If you need to, add some comments or notes into the MS, and just motor on through.
*NO ONE NEEDS TO SEE YOUR FIRST DRAFT Honestly. You can bury it forever in the back yard, or throw it into a bonfire, or put it in a drawer forever. Or you can put it away for a little white and come back to it in a few years with fresh eyes. Or you can put it away until the NaNo editing phase kicks in. The truth is, the only eyes that need see the draft is yours – you're not obligated to share it until you think it's been polished and is ready to share. WRITING MAKES STORIES, EDITING MAKES NOVELS This is so important. You can always go back in and add layers of meaning, or clarification scenes, or sub plots. You can always punch up dialogue or make sure the right senses are being evoked. This is all stuff that you can go back and consciously put in during the editing phase. Writing your first draft is like making the playdough. Once it's made, then you can go back and use the medium to shape it into a novel.
*50k DOES NOT AN ACTUAL NOVEL MAKE Do you know how long the last novel I wrote for NaNo ended up being when I signed it over to the publisher? 78k. And the novel before that? 140k. The point of my telling you is this: your novel will live on after NaNo. You will still be working on it after December 1st. (If you're like me, you could still be working on your novel from four NaNos to this very day.) So if right now it's not right, it's not perfect, it's not what you want it to be, then that's okay. It takes time to shape these sorts of things, and the time it takes is different for each person and each novel. You don't have to get it totally right by 50k and you don't have to get it totally complete by 50k either. Know that you have breathing room.
In summary/TL;DR –
You're probably in the mid-NaNo doldrums. You're probably battling the headspace that says everything you write sucks hard. I am too, so I get it.
The truth is, it doesn't.
Take some time to reward yourself for how far you've come, and to rekindle the fire that pushed you to do NaNo on November 1st. Take some time to decipher if the feelings of suck are because the novel has genuine issues, and if it does, try to figure out how to solve them. If you can't, write around them for now, and come back to them later.
Your novel doesn't have to be perfect now. You have all the time in the world to write more, edit, and polish the book after NaNo is over.
Breathe. Sleep. Drink water. Eat healthy. Go for a walk. Be awesome. You're already awesome. You're a writer.
As NaNoWriMo 2014 approaches – my twelveth go at it – I am rushing to finish applying edits that I made in a red pen to a paper copy of my 2012 NaNo manuscript to the digital version and get it off to my proofreader. I am a little behind on getting ready for NaNo this year. Okay, a lot behind.
As in, I haven't even really decided what I'm doing.
A few conversations with friends have thrown some ideas that I had for a novel into the fan, where it's been chopped up and I'll need to reassemble what's come out the other side. A few other conversations has revealed some flaws with the ending of said 2012 NaNo MS, and has me considering the possibility of writing a sequel novella to go with the book.
And a look at my ever-increasing To Do list and Anthology Invitations has me thinking that maybe I should scrap the idea of a new novel all together and use the peer pressure of the NaNo wordcount to play catch-up.
Basically, I'm stressed.
What began for me as a fun way to push myself to write a long fanfic, and then to write original stories is now sort of in the way. The meetups are all scheduled horribly for me, I have become a terrible introvert when I'm writing and prefer silence and darkness to help me focus so the write-ins are counterproductive, and the thought of slogging through 50k of new stuff that my agent hasn't seen or approved yet and might veto at the end of it is horrifying.
I am also contemplating… cheating. I'll be AFK for three days at the start, and I keep thinking that if I just write that 4k NOW, then I'll be on track once I get back. But that is totally against the spirit of the thing.
In short, I think I've outgrown NaNoWriMo.
But—! But—! I don't want to! I love the community, I love the challenge, I love the rush of surpassing your word count for the day. I've already bought my notebook for this year, and gave my donation. I've already begun to post in the forums, and I've already put a novel up on my profile.
I love the literacy and arts therapy that the Office of Letters and Light promote, I love the Young Writer's Program, and Camp NaNo. I love how important this has become for people, for their hearts, and their heads, and their lives. I love 30 Covers in 30 Days. I love that this matters to people. I love that, yes, there are published authors out there whose NaNo MSes are now purchasable at your local bookstore (including mine), but more than that, I love that there are millions of stories out there in the world, now, that there weren't before.
NaNoWriMo matters.
But does it still work for me?
This is a question I assume many NaNoers ask themselves every year.
Not only are there questions of how well writing 1700 words daily works for an individual's personal writing style, but whether November is a good time of year this time around, and if they even have a project ready to start fresh.
I want to be honest, here. I walked away from this blog post for about three hours. Yup, writing the above bolded section made me upset. Sad, that perhaps it was true that my time with NaNo was over. Angry, because aren't I supposed to be a professional writer, dammit? Shouldn't I find a way to MAKE it work? Upset because I feel so overwhelmed right now, so many ideas and not enough time to do them in. Resentful because I can't seem to write that one project that will enable me to quit my dayjob and be a full time storyteller. Jealous of my fellow pro NaNoers who managed to NaNo up a New York Times Bestseller. Guilt because I talk so highly of the NaNo community and I don't go out to near as much as I could, don't participate on a level that I wish I could make myself do, that I haven't had the stones to stand up and be a Mod or a ML, that I hide so often behind the excuse of "No, I have to write, I have things do to People. Important Things for Important People."
It left me with a lot of roiling emotion.
I felt just crummy in general, because maybe it really was time to throw in the towel and declare my days of NaNoing over. I thought for a long time about what I love about NaNo, why I started, what it means to me and realized this:
I don't want to go.
So maybe I'm a poor community person, and maybe sometimes I have to cheat a little to make sure that I get my wordcounts in, and maybe I don't always start on a fresh project like you're supposed to.
But you know what I always do?
I write.
It doesn't matter what, and it doesn't matter when, and it doesn't matter what the project is.
In November, I write. And that? That I don't want to give up. That I never want to give up.
So I'm a bit of a cheat, and a bit selfish with my time, and a bit of a sneak, but I am also a writer.
NaNoWriMo – for twelve years – has given me that.
And that is why I will come back. Every year. Always.
And if that's what NaNoWriMo means to you, if that's what makes your heart beat fast and your passion sizzle, then do it. Do it however you have to – be a bit selfish, be a bit of a cheat, be a bit of a sneak – but do it.
That's all NaNo is asking of you. Allow you to ask it of yourself, too.


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