Saturday, May 31, 2003
About 95% of the mail I get from readers is e-mail, which is cool, but I truly love getting the old-fashioned paper kind of mail that arrives at the post office and yesterday I got just such a letter from Osaka, Japan. It's the first time a Japanese reader has written me and I was oddly pleased. It sort of made my day.
I also wrote 1,037 words on Chapter Four of Murder of Angels yesterday. Which left me stranded in the middle of a rather difficult scene that I have to finish today. It's a retelling of a scene from Silk, where Daria Parker meets Keith Barry for the first time (Roc edition, Chapter Six, pp. 133-139). It appears in Chapter Four of Murder of Angels as a flashback, only this time we see the scene from Daria's POV, instead of Keith's. Kathryn read the section from Silk to me yesterday and I was surprised and pleased to discover that I still liked it. I haven't read much of Silk since the proofreading for the Gauntlet limited back in 1999. Anyway, today I find the end of this scene that I must have originally written, the other way round, sometime in 1995.
Ryan Obermeyer and I also discussed the artwork for the endpapers of the Subterranean Press edition of Low Red Moon.
This morning Bill Schafer sent me a jpg of the cover layout (front and back, with interior flaps) for The Five of Cups. It is intensely weird, seeing it at this stage after so many years. But it's going to be a pretty book.
For everyone who's lent a hand in the campaign to continue Farscape, here's an encouraging thank you from Claudia Black, Ben Browder, and series Executive Producer and writer David Kemper. I loved the comment about "reality tv" and IQ.
And I see that Eric Rudolph's luck finally ran out. All karma may not be instant, but I can settle for eventual.
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