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Lizzie N

Lizzie N

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Science-fiction with some romance mixed in is my thing. I both read it and write it.
  • Anchorage, AK, USA
  • member since January 11, 2009

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  • antares

    antares says

    What is RWA?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • antares

    antares says

    "When will your books be out?"

    That is the million dollar question.

    The book release was delayed 4 months while I waited for a cover artist to do something. Finally sent me a cover that looked good but 1) had the wrong theme and 2) mispelled my name. A month later, he still had not fixed the errors.

    I fired him and hired Peter Ratcliffe. Went from first email contact to finished cover in 13 days.

    Rob Siders formatted my book early on. Sent him the Peter Ratcliffe cover to include and some editing changes. He sent me an email that said he had it scheduled to finish last week. Next I heard was from his wife, Amy. Their home took 2 bullets in a drive-by shooting, and Rob and Amy took their child and left their home and business till order is restored in the neighborhood. (I am not making this up.)

    Anyway, right now I have one chicklit short story live on Amazon: Flight Out. Let's see if I can link to it --] http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Out-ebook/dp/B0055PDNQS/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1308825826&sr=1-2

    Well, no link, but you can cut and paste, I guess. It's 99 cents for 5 pages. You can read it in 5 minutes. Then if you judge it not to be worth your money, return it. Won't hurt my feeling. Not much, anyway.

    From Flight Out, you will be able to judge if I can write or not. Sample Heart of Stone when it comes out and see if it's to your taste.

    But enough about me. Do you publish on Amazon? What are your titles?

    PS I agree: Bujold's writing is stronger than McCaffrey's. The Borders of Infinity is great. I'm reading Free Falling now. If I can I shall post it to my bookshelf. But I bought it from Baen's Books, vice Amazon. Can't get it for Kindle through Amazon, but can through Baen's.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • antares

    antares says

    I publish under my name: h lynn keith.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • antares

    antares says

    Who do you mean when you say 'she'? Anne McCaffrey or Lois McMasters Bujold?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • antares

    antares says

    "Science-fiction with some romance mixed in is my thing."

    Lizzie I have a couple of books coming out that should be your thing: _Heart of Stone_ and _Navel of the Moon_. keith
    PS Looks like you read a lot of Anne McCaffrey. Have you read Lois McMasters Bujold?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Author: Rory M Smith

    Author: Rory M Smith says

    Read one the best Sci-Fi book of 2011. The first of seven books KING CLAYSHON THE FREEDOM MAKER at www.authorrorymsmith.com Its time to read one of the greatest sci-fi storys ever told.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nina d

    nina d says

    Smila's Sense of Snow (at least in the movie) seemed to follow that same scheme. She discovers something, investigates, things escalate, and then the big ending/showdown. What I liked most is that she is gritty with a "rough" mouth. Even when she starts off with the boy, she is trying to shoo him away. And then the little details about Greenlanders...even if they are not true, it's something different. That's one of the reasons why I liked _Snowcrash_ too, the Aleutian references.

    Sure send your story to my email. I'll be gentle ( :D ) or won't comment at all if you like.

    As to you plot comments...I read somewhere, or it was in a post, that what you described is very Western in nature, and that many Eastern works do not follow that scheme. It's why I suppose that so many movie remakes of foreign films are reworked and given an "American" ending. Like you say, after decade upon decade of the same plots and story devices, the stories become too predictable.

    :D
    Nina

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nina d

    nina d says

    Hi !

    Haven't seen you about and wondered what you were up to :P

    See you're reading _Smilla's Sense of Snow_. I caught the movie by accident once, and liked the first half. You could tell by some of the detail it had to be a book first. Anymore I tend to like the setup, in books and movies, losing interest three quarters of the way through. I think its because the characters at that point have been fleshed out and then there comes an action finish or something, but it doesn't do anything for me. It's anticlimactic. I should probably read the first half of _Smilla's Sense of Snow_ and then stop once she leaves the city. Let me know what you think of the book, and the end. Do you end up liking the first half much better?

    I just got finished reading _The Ballad of the Sad Cafe_ by Carson Mc Cullers. It's a short story. Like much of her writing, it takes place in the South, in a small rural town. It might not be your general cup of tea, but I was taken in by the characters. They are an odd sort and I thought early on I might not like the story, but somehow she managed to draw me in and like a few of the gritty people. I need to read it a few more times to try and see how she managed it.

    Hope your writing is going well. Take care.

    :D
    Nina

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nina d

    nina d says

    I don't know how long it was....

    It often happens that I accidentally catch a movie on TV or at a friends since I dont go to
    movie theaters anymore. Wherever it was I started watching Smila's Sense of Snow
    and immediately knew it came from a book...too much detail for a screen play.

    I liked the first half of the movie a lot. It seems that I don't care about the endings anymore,
    sometimes I dont care about the endings in books either. Characters are what I love and usually they
    are deveoped at the beginning. So I really liked the detail about Smila's upbringing and how
    she camped out on the lawn because she couldn't stand the heat. And of course her relationship
    with the neighbor boy was nice, especially since she is naturally rude to everyone.

    When they interrogated smilla it was interesting how she was fine until she was threatened with
    confinement without a window. The man says that greenlanders can't take it
    "Its all that space...is that what it is? All the space?" I really like things like that which delve
    into the psyche of characters or cultures. Did you ever read Snowcrash? There was an Alutian
    in that book...and the author gave you some facts about that culture.

    Most of the time I can't go and read a book after seeing the movie but I think I may just
    read the first half of the book(Smilla's Sense of Snow) -- I didn't care for the movie ending---
    but the beginning is most likely terrific in the book.

    I'll check it out.

    Glad that you're from under all your writing. I'm trying to get into my first rewrite and
    never knew how hard it was to stay motivated. Once the book was done,
    I deflated like a tire and going back into it is such a chore. I'm trying to find techniques
    to combat my laziness when it comes to rewriting. Usually I'm good at developing coping skills
    but this might be a real challenge.

    Nina

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • nina d

    nina d says

    Hello again,

    I see you found a Sci-Fi Romance group. I think I'll check it out.

    Although I write, I don't write sci-fi. I envy your imagination. It takes so much
    more to dream up an entire new universe. In my head I have a seed of an idea, because
    I do love sci-fi-, but I think it would do me in to try and create the backdrop.
    If I can't even figure out how my car works, how can I describe the workings of
    a spaceship that doesn't even exist.

    What have you read lately that you really liked?

    I just finished Under The Skin, not realizing what type of book it was. It appeared to
    be a serial killer type book, but it ended up a soft of sci-fi with themes I've seen before.

    Just thought I would stop by and see what you're up to.
    I'm tuckered out. Started doing rewrites. Rewrote my first chapter.
    Never knew it could be so hard. Since the 'first bloom' of it was long gone,
    it was a lot more work to do this time.

    Nina

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Linnea Sinclair

    Linnea Sinclair says

    Nice to see you here, Lizzie! ~Linnea

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Danger Gal

    Danger Gal says

    Hi Lizzie! Welcome to our group. I'm pretty happy with our current photo, but thanks for the offer.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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