Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
I thank you and Greg Ketter my publisher thanks you!
  

    
how come i don't get to own Warning: Contains Language?  i've been so
good but no one has it to sell to me.  :(

i'm thinking i need to check this Martha character out.

ok, i don't want to proliferate this thread too much, but, here goes. 
nightmare cast:
Destruction-Harvey Keitel
Despair-Kathy Kinney 
Dream-Crispin Glover
Delerium- Parker Posey
Destiny- Peter Fonda
Desire- Susan Powter
Death- Sarah Jessica Parker
The Corinthian- Andy Dick
  

    
Oh geez.
  

    
Adriana - I tried to get Warning: Contains Language a little over a
year ago, right when i was moving from San Lorenzo to Oakland... sadly,
it appeared to have gotten lost in the mail forwarding process.
Fortunately (If I interpret Neil's comment correctly) there is going to
be a reissue of the CD, so we won't be left out in the cold forever!

Andy Dick as the Corinthian? I can't even imagine... the worst
plausible person I could think of was Ben Affleck.
Here's one... Matthew voiced by Gilbert Godfried.
  

    
Email from Bill Williams:

Adriana-- Always check eBay before you make statements like "Nobody wants
to sell W:CL to me". Or you can wait until the aforementioned re-release.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1141600352 And
while I'm at it, I'll see Erynn's "Oh geez," and raise a "Good Lord."

Neil-- I'm sure I'd be one of the ones paying for it, but there is the
small matter of an upcoming wedding to pay for. So I'll settle for either
a) waiting like everybody else; or b) continuing to haunt my local used
book stores, particularly the one where I found an advance proof of
Stardust. I still have visions of finding it, devouring it in an evening
or two, and starting it on a cross-country journey from Thingie to
Thingie.

Bill^2 (w.j.williams@home.com)
  

    
wow.  sufficiently chastised by Bill.  ouch.
  

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Email from Bill Williams:

Oh, jeez. I would've sworn I threw a smiley in there someplace. That was
NOT supposed to come out as critical as I see it looks. Sorry about that.
--Bill^2
  

    
i deserve flailing for the Andy Dick thing anyway.  :)
  

    
Hold still, Adriana... I'll get my flogger....
Actually, wait, this whole list of terror was *my* idea... so we'll
have to take turns.

Ok, I'm going home now before I *really* get myself into trouble.
  

    

No, Gilbert Godfrey is clearly Mervyn. Slater is Matthew.

At least, according to Wizard Magazine untold years ago, if I recall
correctly.
  

    
martha -- what Streak said. People love it.

Dan Guy -- much appreciated on the library. And I loved the whoas.

Seth -- it's 13 minutes of silence after banshee.

Adriana -- which is why we'll be bringing it back into print (as two
CDs, though, not one double CD).

Erynn -- I think Bill was declining to buy the E-Bay proofs, not yer
actual hardcovers. And who can blame him for hunting for proofs in
second hand bookstores?

Bill -- If I were in New York I'd make sure that the Strand Bookstore
knew I wanted one, as that's where non-internet savvy journalists and
editors will be dumping their copies for a little spending cash. Not
that you're necessarily in NY, but it might not be a bad place to send
friends to hunt. Powells in Portland might be another possibility.
(Wish I were signing there on this tour.)

Congrats on the upcoming wedding.

It looks like a tentative agreement has been reached on the writers
strike thing. Which means I probably won't be going on strike. Which
means I have to get the second draft script written for Death between
now and June 16th-ish.

And everything else done too.

And means I'll probably wind up putting off a couple of projects for a
year or 18 months...
  

    
Bill- My apologies. It looks like I largly misunderstood your post.
Perhaps I was reading it too fast. I don't know. Perhaps I'm losing my
mind. Anyway, I hope you'll forgive me for jumping the gun. Sorry :0

I'm gonna go hide now in shame....
  

    
martha - what Neil and streak said... doubled. I've got people
interested in both you and Neil because I couldn't read the poem
without stopping to giggle. 

squeaks, who has a project set aside that was due last August. :)
  

    
Well, people love it because it's a great poem.  How lucky for me that it's
written around my name!
  

    
Email from dianna:

Martha - i bought your book. And not because it has a Neil poem but
because he said it is good - and he is never wrong about these things. It
came very quickly (less than 2 weeks!) by surface mail all the way from
DreamHaven to Tasmania (and i thought it would take the donkey at least 3
months to swim all that way). And Neil was right.  S'wonderful. Love your
work. Do more :)

And hello everyone :)

dianna - ex-faerie
  

    
C'mon, Martha, answer my "Things Not Seen" question.  You think Tall,
Dark, and English is the only person around here who's allowed to
suffer geeky questions about their writing?  Where'd you get the Ditch
Day story?
  

    
I'm sorry, I missed the question the first time around.

I married a guy who was a Caltech grad and heard many ditch day and other
hacking stories.  And I always rather wished I'd gone to a big geek school.
I couldn't go back in time and do a real stack, so I made one up in a story;
when I realized it would work that well in the story I was writing I was
delighted.  Best thing about doing a stack as fiction instead of in real
life: all the little things you can be certain will go wrong in life are
under your complete control in fiction.
  

    
Email from JaNell:

Martha- where can I get a glimpse of this wonderful stuff you're writing?
I missed the link, if there was one; sometimes it's weeks before I can get
at the computer. Congrats- and Wow! for getting Neil's approval.
    Oh, one our Knoxville writers, a friend of mine, Laura J. Underwood,
just got one of her chapbooks on Amazon. Even better, I think, than that
local woman winning "Survivor" (no, I don't watch it, my mom told me).

Confession: I like Keanu, especially in "Dangerous Liaisons". He's pretty.
But, there is a limit.

JaNell
  

    
        Wow, you made it up.  That's amazing.  Are you aware that there are
folks out there reporting it as having happened?
  

    
From way, way back...

Martha - congratulations!!(and yes we all do love your poem...)
 
streak - Monsoon in Hong Kong? Probably a typhoon signal #8 or a
'black rain' signal... What were you doing here, if I may ask? ^_-

Dan Guy - Hi there. Do you like anime by any chance? ^_- (For
everybody: new Miyazaki film coming out this July!)

Neil - congratulations on the Kirkus review! *star* And yay for doing
Shoggoth's. I love your readings of it to bits and pieces. ('Mad
Science' starts playing in the background.)

Len - Happy belated anniversary! Hope it was a great one. ^_-

And, um, guys, I think I'm going to have a nightmare about Keanu
tonight. ^_^;

-- Mimi
  

    
        I'm honestly not sure of the storm categories involved.  Looked like
a monsoon to me, but hey, I'm just a gwailo from California.  From
pleasantly-cloudy-day to the hardest rain I've ever seen in my entire
life, in less than 60 seconds.  I cannot describe how full the air was
of fast-moving water.  My shoes were full, so that water squirted out
of them with each step I took, and they refilled before I took the next
step.  Every horizontal surface was alive with half an inch of moving
water.  I've lived in England, I live in Portland, I know rain, and
this was unlike anything else I've ever seen.
        As to what I was doing in Hong Kong, I was just being in Hong Kong,
doing the tourist thing, by myself.
  

    
streak - Gwailo!! *explodes* Well, you were there long enough to catch
that term... ^_^; (gwai - ghost, demon; lo - guy, man above 30... came
about when people were freaked out by blond hair and blue eyes
decades/a century?? ago) Hope it was an interesting trip. ^_^

As for nightmare, it was of a convent with evil monks.(??)

-- Mimi, off to work
  

    

Heck, us HK film buffs have known "gwailo" for ages. 
  

    
        Heck, everyone knows gwailo.  I file it next to gaijin, yo-neg, and
peckerwood.  Though it was an interesting new experience being
discriminated against, in Hong Kong.  One old couple ate an entire meal
seated sideways at their table so as to be sitting with their backs to
me.