…answers pending. We’re closing in, folks. I have nothing really to say other than tackling the nit-pickies trying to get this thing up and running.
Of course...I have no product yet. Just covers. :lol: Oh, and a few, mostly-corrected files. Now that we’ve got Carolyn’s test file up on her site, that’ll help a lot. Once we know the process, it’s all mechanics.
Have faith!
We are looking forward to getting your work too, Jane. But all in good time. I am excited about the possibility, actually, of buying multiple copies for each computer/reader, so that I never have to fuss about how the book I want to read is somewhere unavailable. Instant gratification! on the way.
I’m also looking forward to the idea of paying my favorite authors DIRECTLY, rather than sending them pennies on the dollar through a publisher. And I love the convenience of reading on my iPhone, even though it means I go through books that much faster!
(Write more, please, Jane?)
BTW, that cover for A Writer’s Life is lovely. Your work, I assume?
Actually, no…Carolyn did those. Aren’t they pretty?
I have to say that I like the front page of the CC site also. Can’t wait to see what other treasures there are to come.
And OT: Lion King – simply the best time we’ve ever had in the theater in our lives. We saw it in NY at the New Amsterdam a few years ago when the kids were probably 6 and 8. There was a 90+ year old woman from NYC behind us who was in tears because she thought it was the best she’d ever seen in the 70 years she’d been going to the theater. The opening was so amazing. I hesitate given even the slightest detail that might spoil it for anyone who has yet to see it because the opening is so powerful.
- S
I have the same reaction. I started a post last night, and had to give it up because I was too overwhelmed to figure out how to express my feelings without, as you say, giving too much away. The comment about the old lady in tears…well, let’s say, that’s pretty much how my post begins. I totally understand. I’ve never ever ever had that reaction in a theater or anywhere else. Fortunately, there were a few flaws to keep it from being perfect, but those were carryovers from the movie and nothing to do with this phenomenal adaptation.
I still get chills thinking about certain parts of it.
Lion King: me too. went with an 8 year old and a 7 year old last March. Beside ourselves. completely. I preferred the African music to the Disney music, but will take the bad with the good in this case.
As I said at the Wave, if OSG didn’t go with you, she should surely go when she is with us next week.
And Sandor, one of these days you’ll have to associate yourself with the Eastern Association. I have a 10 year old and an 8 year old, and others among us have an older and a younger child, and it sounds like, what with Helen Mirren and the Lion King, that you get to the city pretty often but so far you have evaded our clutches, oops, man’chi.
Sandor — I’m coming to NYC tomorrow! I *did* remember correctly — you live there. See MEETPOINT STATION.
Jane, thx for letting us use your site to try to snag Sandor!
No, I live in Va, but have family in NYC and Atl City, NJ (my mother actually graduated from Hunter College, taking two buses, the Staten Island Ferry, and a subway each way to and from school. I almost got to run into a few folks, but my wife manages to fill up most of our time there, and that leaves only a little bit left for me for nostalgic things, such as seeing if my cousin is the Captain on the ferry that day, or taking my eldest to Manny’s Music (glad we did that this spring).
This Xmas, we will be visiting Atlantic City and Va Beach, not sure what order yet, so might not get into the city… maybe they’ll have a decent band somewhere to listen to.
I still need to get to Spokane, though :) !!!!
Jane, I am so thrilled you had the chance to see the LK. That’s one heck of a birthday gift.
- S